Articles
News Release: “Keys to My Home” Web Site Addresses Homeownership Gaps
Measuring the Delivery Costs of Prepurchase Homeownership Education and
Counseling [PDF, 298 KB]
Strengthening The Case For Homeownership Counseling: Moving Beyond "A Little Bit Of Knowledge" [PDF, 295 KB] by Steven Hornburg, Emerging Community Markets (August 2004)
A Brief History — Homeownership Education and Counseling [PowerPoint, 1.5 MB]
by Doug Dylla, manager for Campaign for Home Ownership (August 2004)
NeighborWorks Campaign for Home Ownership
"Financial Fitness" Education
Predatory Lending
Issues Update - Working Together to Change the Face of Homeownership: Effective Tools and Strategies for Reaching Minority Markets
Publications
First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Quick Reference Guide NEW
As part of the stimulus package of 2009, the Home Buyer Tax credit has been extended and changed. View our Quick Reference Guide [PDF] that you can use in your counseling and educational efforts summarizing the changes.
New Release:
Mortgage Refinance and Home-Equity Loans National Curriculum
Realizing the American Dream, 3rd Edition
Realizing the American Dream Trainer’s Manual, 3rd Edition, and its complementing Homebuyer’s Manual, are the definitive resource for homebuyer training and education. Both manuals are available in Spanish and English.
Developed by industry experts, the manuals cover the entire homeownership process and are sequentially organized in six modules that are presented in a user-friendly format that de-mystifies the complexities of homebuying by simplifying instruction and learning.
The Trainer’s Manual includes valuable teaching tools, participatory activities, worksheets and visual aids. Cost: $20. The Homebuyer’s Manual contains detailed information, worksheets, self-tests, sample documents and glossary. Cost: $15.
To order, call the NeighborWorks Training Institute at 800-438-5547 or 202-220-2300.
Consumer Home Buying Guides
The newest addition to our growing range of valuable practitioner resources are the Consumer Home Buying Guides, a set of four consumer-focused guides to various stages of the home buying process. Developed by Fannie Mae Foundation, these guides deliver practical, specific and concise information in a user-friendly format. For more information on the guides, including translations into a number of languages and ordering details, click here.
Technology Tools
"Keys to My Home" Web Site
NeighborWorks Center for Homeownership Education and Counseling (NCHEC), in partnership with E*Trade Financial, has launched an exciting and highly useful new tool – Keys to My Home (www.keystomyhome.org). Based on the nationally recognized curriculum from NCHEC’s popular pre-purchase consumer manual Realizing the American Dream, Keys to My Home is a web-based package of calculators, learning modules, and comparison tools. Easy to use, clearly designed, and all completely free to practitioners and their clients, the site will soon be available in a Spanish-language version as well.
CounselorMax™
CounselorMax is a web-based client and data management system designed specifically for housing counselors. NeighborWorks America, through the NeighborWorks Center or Homeownership Education and Counseling (NCHEC), offers this tool to the homeownership counseling industry, with support from Freddie Mac.
Using CounselorMax, housing counselors can:
- Have access to an easy-to-use, web-based application, accessible from virtually any location through the Internet
- Manage intake
- Create accurate and customized reports
- Utilize powerful counseling tools including weekly and monthly budget worksheets
- Schedule and track activity
- Streamline outreach campaigns
In May 2008, a new default management module was added to CounselorMax. New features of this module include:
- Standard Default and Loss Mitigation Tracking utilizing a customized Guiding and Planning Work-Flow System
- Ability to fully track and report National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling (NFMC) requirements, including Level 1, 2 and 3 monitoring
- NFMC data collection - ready to export to Intermediary and to NeighborWorks America
For more information, contact the CounselorMax team at counselormax@nw.org, or visit www.counselormax.com.
Symposia
Materials from the 2008 symposium -- Weathering the Storm: Stabilizing Communities in the Wake of Foreclosure
Materials from the 2007 symposium – Taking Care of Business: Managing the Business Side of Homeownership Programs
Materials from the 2005 symposium - The Next Generation of Homeownership Partnerships: What's the Real Bottom Line - and link to Innovations 2005 contest winners
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