Providing Quality Housing Counseling
In an effort to continue providing quality housing counseling to America’s homeowners, buyers and renters, HUD announced today the availability of $2 million in housing counseling grants. These funds...
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Need Housing Counseling? There’s an app for that!
Home is where the heart is, it’s true, but what if you don’t have a home or you’re at risk of losing the one you have? The fine print of a lease agreement or the complexity of buying your first home...
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HUD Marks National Consumer Protection Week
Looking for a housing counselor or want to learn more about your fair housing rights? The answer may be on your smart phone or tablet! Recently, HUD launched two new mobile apps designed to help...
View ArticleNew Initiatives Connect Homeowners to Foreclosure Prevention Programs
Crossed posted from WhiteHouse.gov This week, the Administration announced three new housing initiatives aimed at building on our efforts to connect struggling homeowners to the Administration’s...
View ArticleRebuilding the Middle Class and the American Dream
June is Homeownership Month, a time to celebrate something that’s central to this thing we call ‘the American Dream.’ As our nation continues to recover from the housing crisis, we also must reflect...
View ArticleHousing Counseling Works!
Navigating the world of housing choices isn’t easy. Should I rent or buy? What can I really afford? Will I have to move away once I retire? What does all this paperwork really mean? How do I know...
View ArticleProposed Cuts Hurt Families and Communities
The President has been clear that Republicans in Congress should work with Democrats to finish a budget that cuts wasteful spending while investing in jobs, the economy and middle class families....
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Transitioning Renters to Homeowners
When a HUD-approved housing counselor at ACTS Housing first met Esperanza, she was on her hands and knees scraping old tile off the floor of her new home, debris flying everywhere. In that moment,...
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Reaching Self-Sufficiency through Housing Counseling
A single mother of two girls, Yesenia Martinez was accepted into the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program in March 2005 with the West Palm Beach Housing Authority at a time when she was unemployed...
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Learning Homeownership Skills by Getting Your Hands Dirty
In southern Virginia, the Danville Redevelopment and Housing Authority (DRHA) recently expanded their housing program by developing a full-service housing education department. The Center for Housing...
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