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Provides services to help individuals make better decisions about their finances and housing finances and to help others who need help with debt or credit card problems. Services include, debt management, credit counseling, housing counseling, credit card debt, and personal finances.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Provide prepurchase, first time homebuyers, default delinquency counseling, budget counseling, foreclosure prevention, pre and post bankruptcy counseling. Walk-ins accepted. Call for further information. Counseling services available in Spanish.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Offers a nine hour education and support program, for a fee, that is designed to assist first time home-buyers to overcome barriers and become prepared for homeownership. The classes meet one night per month and feature local experts involved in the home buying process. Also offers pre-purchase counseling and grant eligibility and education for no fee.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Provide education about the home buying process and wealth and asset building, enabling them to move toward a successful purchase of safe and affordable housing.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Offers education seminars in person and online, as well as one-to-one counseling. These courses provide participants with the information that all first-time homebuyers should know in order to make well informed decisions and become an empowered and educated consumer. Course topics include: Assessment of Homeownership Readiness Budgeting & Credit Financing a Home Shopping for a Home Maintaining a Home Managing Homeownership Finances

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Provides a number of programs and services to help farmers, low income individuals and families, and the working poor to access affordable housing.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

One to one financial counseling for first-time homebuyers, including how much of a mortgage is affordable, understanding closing costs, resolving credit issues, and how to select a real estate agent, lawyer, mortgage lender and other professionals. Counselors will link prospective first time homebuyers with sources of down payment assistance. Workshops scheduled periodically at various locations throughout the county.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Offers pre-purchase and pre-rental counseling as well as information about reverse mortgages, foreclosures, eviction, home improvements, and rehabilitation.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Provides one-on-one counseling and general education to either potential home buyers or existing homeowners at risk of losing their investment. Offers one-on-one pre and post purchase counseling, and workshops on a variety of topics including budget development, credit management, foreclosure prevention and financial literacy.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Seniors receive counseling on housing situations such as rentals, home ownership issues, real estate tax exemptions, foreclosure prevention and special government programs for eligible seniors.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Provides education to individuals and families of what to expect after buying a home and how to continue asset building and to continue the success of maintaining the house. Program serves Orange, Ulster, Sullivan and Dutchess Counties.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Offers home purchasing, refinancing, and foreclosure counseling.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Provides free mortgage counseling, one on one education of mortgage process for first-time homebuyers, credit and income review, and assistance in obtaining pre-approval. Also offers advice about refinancing, anti-predatory lending education, post-purchase counseling, reverse mortgage counseling and default prevention education.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Helps low and moderate income families with home buying assistance, through counseling, down payment, closing costs, etc.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Provides intervention on behalf of tenants to prevent homelessness and to assist those who are homeless. This includes assistance in finding affordable housing, advocacy and dispute resolution in landlord/tenant matters, assist tenants in money management and household budgeting. Referrals are made to programs such as: HEAP, SECTION 8, Social Services, and Public Housing. Assistance with applications to these programs are provided, particularly, for those with language and cultural barriers.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Offers first time homebuyers assistance to cover down payment and/or closing costs plus rehabilitation expenses. Also offers pre-purchase and post-purchase education, as well as homeownership counseling.

211 Hudsson Valley / ADK

Assists low-income individuals and families with first time homeownership.

211 North East New York

The Counseling Services Program is tailored to the needs of each customer as they actively work toward individually established goals to improve their financial hurdles to home ownership. Customers meet for at least one hour each month with a Homeowner Counselor. A six-hour home buyer education class detailing the process of purchasing and owning a home is taught once a month. There is one-on-one assistance in filing out forms required to apply for the program and mortgages. Assessments of individual financial management strengths and needs, and individualized assistance in setting and achieving goals in order to successfully qualify for a mortgage are provided. Credit reports are reviewed and clients are taught how to read and understand them. Pre-home ownership and post-home ownership counseling, credit counseling, debt counseling, budgeting, mortgage counseling, how to save, post-home ownership budgeting, savings counseling and mortgage management are available.

211 North East New York

Comprehensive training in purchasing a house for low- and moderate-income first-time home buyers, including: establishing good credit understanding home financing working with a realtor how house inspections work understanding documents signed at closingthrough traditional classroom setting; four weekly, two-hour sessions with guest speakers online through eHomeAmerica with videos and self-tests, enabling individuals to complete the program at home at his or her own paceOne-on-one counseling on topics from credit counseling to home maintenance.Residents of Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Seneca, Tioga, and Tompkins.Offers assistance with down payments; homebuyer education required.

211 Tompkins Cortland

211 Life Line Finger Lakes

*Provides information, assistance, referral and support for individuals with issues relating to housing. Services include:

• Finding appropriate housing including providing listings of rental units
• Maintaining housing including assistance accessing home improvement programs
• Assistance completing subsidized housing applications
• Accessing rent assistance programs
• Eviction and foreclosure prevention (Does not provide legal advice)
• Locate emergency housing
• Understanding fair housing and residents rights
• Workshops on housing issues
• Enroll in home buying programs

211 Mid New York

Our goal is to help individuals and families move on from homelessness into a position of safe, affordable, and stable quality housing. Our team offers specific counseling in areas that our clients desire and qualify for, so they can achieve independence in the housing placement of their choosing.

211 Susquehanna UW Vestal

211 Life Line Finger Lakes

Provides assistance to income-eligible households through housing rehabilitation programs and first-time home buyer programs. Advocates to eliminate housing discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion, familial status, disability, or national origin.

211 Susquehanna UW Vestal

Provides grants to eligible low-to-moderate income first time homebuyers for down payments and closing cost assistance. Provides credit counseling and help in preparing to obtain a home loan.

211 Central New York