With appealing, high-visibility locations, consistent standards of operation, and a focus on customer convenience, NeighborWorks HomeOwnership Centers are reinventing the traditional community-based development model. All over the country they are moving from side streets to Main Street, expanding their markets, and opening their doors to “one-stop” shopping for prospective homebuyers and homeowners. Customers can access all of the services, products and training necessary to shop for, purchase, renovate, insure, maintain and manage a home — under one roof.

NeighborWorks America provides each NeighborWorks HomeOwnership Center with technical assistance, grants, training and secondary-market access. The support includes a $50,000 start-up grant, and access to the secondary-market resources of Neighborhood Housing Services of America. In addition, countless hours in staff training and technical assistance are provided through NeighborWorks Training Institutes and Campaign for Home Ownership staff, with additional financial support from numerous
public and private sector partners.

More than 90 HomeOwnership Centers are serving communities across the country. Increasingly, community organizations find that this one-stop shopping, high-quality service concept is a winning strategy for both their customers and their partners. Joining this fast-growing initiative helps local NeighborWorks organizations raise their visibility, reach more diverse customers, centralize homebuyer services and training, enlist more investing partners and increase their homeowner output and economic impact.

NeighborWorks HomeOwnership Centers Diagram