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Steps To Homeownership

What are the benefits?

Through the homeownership and home buyer education workshops and one-on-one counseling of our housing counseling agencies, you will learn life-long financial management skills that enable you to establish credit, maintain a personal budget, qualify for a mortgage, and eventually purchase a home. You will learn if you are eligible for particular grants and subsidies and you will gain an advocate who will prepare you for homeownership.

  • Attend Homebuyer Education

  • Meet with a housing counselor and follow up with one-on-one counseling, which involves as much as 12 hours of additional learning

  • Gain access to agencies and lenders that offer competitive, fixed-rate mortgages

Did you know?

  • Besides English, our agencies offer counseling in additional languages including Spanish, Cantonese, Korean, and Mandarin. Bangla and Urdu.
  • Each NYMC housing group customizes its services to meet the needs of its local community based on language, culture, income levels, and housing inventory.
  • All NYMC counseling is provided at no cost to our clients. Particular counseling agencies may charge a small fee for education and credit reports. Please discuss this with the agency you choose.
  • If you are interested in learning more about our Homeownership Program, please contact us or one of our Housing Counseling Agencies.

Abode Alliance’s homeownership counseling program gives potential homeowners access to nonprofit, HUD-Approved housing counseling agencies and lenders that offer competitive, fixed-rate mortgages which may include closing cost grants and downpayment assistance subsidies. 

NYMC housing counseling agencies provide home buyer education – both financial and housing education – year-round in all five boroughs as well as Suffolk County and Nassau County.

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We're making a huge impact.

Since 1993, NYMC has provided homebuyer education to households and helped New Yorkers purchase their first home.

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