Federal Housing Programs
Buying a home is often the most significant investment that a person may make in his lifetime. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, in addition to offering a variety of mortgage insurance programs, supports numerous programs sponsored by state and local governments and nonprofit organizations across the country.
Many of these offerings provide assistance to first time home buyers.
HUD also offers excellent advice for making the home buying process as stress-free and rewarding as prossible. Check out their advice on Ninety Nine Questions Answered about Buying Your First Home.
What follows is a listing of all the programs supporting home purchase and home improvements from the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Revitalization Grants enable PHAs to improve the living environment for public housing residents of severely distressed public housing projects through the demolition, substantial rehabilitation, reco...more
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To provide Federal assistance for Indian tribes in a manner that recognizes the right of tribal self-governance, and for other purposes....more
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To assist an Indian tribe or Tribally Designated Housing Entity (TDHE) to obtain financing for affordable housing activities under Title II of NAHASDA where an obligation cannot be completed without s...more
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To aid very low income families in obtaining decent, safe, and sanitary rental housing. For Welfare-to-Work rental vouchers, families must also meet special welfare-to-work criteria. HUD regulations m...more
Department of Housing and Urban Development
The Capital Fund provides funds annually to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) for capital and management activities, including modernization and development of public housing. The Capital fund also permi...more
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To provide housing assistance to low-income Native Hawaiian families who are eligible to reside on Hawaiian Home Lands....more
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To provide eligible Native Hawaiian families with greater access to private mortgage resources by guaranteeing loans for one-to four family housing located on Hawaiian Home Lands....more
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To provide Public Housing Authorities with funding to create community technology centers which provide Internet access, job training, and other supportive services to residents of public housing....more
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To promote the development of local strategies to coordinate the use of assistance under the Public Housing program with public and private resources to enable participating families to achieve econom...more
Department of Housing and Urban Development
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