Focuses on helping individuals gain assets and become self-sufficient, improving the health and safety and energy efficiency measures in their home, and helping to develop and improve local businesses. Directly offers opportunities for home ownership and education, energy conservation through weatherization assessment, and renovation services. Also offers financial services such as budgeting along with homeownership, credit, bankruptcy, and foreclosure counseling.

The Housing programs help people with a variety of housing goals and needs. For some clients, keeping their home and avoiding foreclosure is a challenge. We can help via our foreclosure prevention counseling, where we look for programs that help people keep their homes. Others may be preparing to buy a home for the first time, and we can help them too with our pre-purchase counseling and Essentials for Buying your First Home program. We also offer reverse mortgage counseling, rental counseling, and a few other services, programs, and educational opportunities.

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.

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.

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.

Provides prepurchase/first time homebuyers counseling, default delinquency counseling, budget counseling, housing assistance (Section 8 eligible), landlord/tenant assistance, reverse mortgage counseling (senior program) and referrals to other housing and non-housing agencies.

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

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

Provides home purchase counseling, geared towards first-time home buyers, along with home rehabilitation services for low income individuals who need to make repairs for health, safety, or accessibility reasons, and foreclosure prevention counseling for those struggling to maintain current mortgage payments.

Focuses on creating asset development opportunities for both residents and entrepreneurs. Assists individuals in growing and investing in their communities by providing lending capital, training, consulting, technical assistance, seminars, workshops, and low-cost business rental space to new and existing businesses that would otherwise lack access to these services. Assists area residents in developing asset based thinking by providing financial literacy training, basic budgeting, and home appliance loans to combat predatory lenders. Loan programs and Cottage Industry Assistance Program target low to moderate income existing and prospective individuals. Chautauqua Microenterprise Loan Fund and the Women and Minority Microenterprise Loan Fund Programs help small businesses by providing small business start up and expansion loans. The small business incubator offers small businesses an opportunity to grow and stabilize with subsidies around rent, business services, and technical assistance. Serves as a Warming Center during times of excessive cold and as a Cooling Center during times of excessive heat. Always call ahead to make sure a Warming/Cooling Center is open before going there.

Counsels families on how to avoid eviction and homelessness, improve landlord/tenant relations, and provides information about how to renegotiate mortgages and how to improve budgeting skills. Also offers first home buyers counseling, preclosure counseling and reverse mortgage counseling for seniors over 62 years.

Individual or group counseling to educate sonsumers with information pertaining to conventional and government assisted mortgages.

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.

Offers a Home Buyer Education Course covering topics such as: household budgeting, credit and savings management, home inspections and the purchase process. Families who successfully complete this course may also be eligible for grants and other assistance for purchasing a home.

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.

Educates consumers on financial issues and provides personal assistance to consumers who have become overextended with debt. Also provides comprehensive housing counseling, pre-purchase home buyer education and mortgage delinquency counseling.

HUD backs mortgages made through approved lenders sells foreclosed homes hosts seminars funds counseling for first-time buyers done through various New York City and Long Island housing agencies and offers literature on home buying.

Offers home purchasing, refinancing, and foreclosure counseling.

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

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.

Offers financial counseling for homeowners who are facing default/foreclosures on a primary residence mortgage. Counselors work with the client and the mortgage to arrange a mutually agreeable and realistic payment plan, when possible.

Provides housing counseling for landlord/tenant-rights and responsibilities, rent payment increases and eviction situations and mortgage counseling to homeowners. Pre-purchase, pre-rental and mortgage default predatory lending counseling. Call. Appointment required for some counseling.

Offers low and moderate income first-time home buyers assistance with home buying counseling, down payment, closing costs, etc.

Provides financing and programs designed for first-time low and moderate income home buyers in New York State. Partners with approved participating mortgage lenders across the state to offer 30 year, competitive, fixed rate mortgages with special features to help low and moderate income New Yorkers become homeowners. Enables active duty U.S. military personnel to buy their first home or move to a different home through the Homes for Veterans Program. Offers down payment assistance in conjunction with SONYMA financing.

Offers home buyer counseling to anyone who is buying a house for the first time or wants to get re-educated after a few years.