In late 2020, CalHFA began the National Mortgage Settlement Counseling Program implemented to respond to overwhelming need as Covid-19 and economic disruption exacerbated an already precarious housing situation for millions of California families. With HomeFree USA as a selected HUD-approved Intermediary, the NAAC is its selected California community partner with trained HUD counselors educating and connecting struggling LMI families with resources to help prevent avoidable foreclosures and evictions that usually lead to housing insecurity and homelessness. We have served, till date, 500 clients with our services in Housing programs. NDC partners for outreach in multiple languages such as English, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean.
NDC is also partners with NAAC in running its “Owning A Piece of America” virtual workshops every month throughout this year, focusing on counseling while building its capacity to provide a menu of counseling services such as:
- Pre-purchase counseling
- Pre-Purchase Homebuyer Education Workshops
- Mortgage delinquency and default resolution counseling
- Non-delinquency post purchase counseling
- Non-Delinquency Post-Purchase Workshops
- Home improvement rehabilitation counseling
- Rental counseling
- Project Reinvest financial capability counseling and education
- Financial management / budget counseling
- Reverse mortgage counseling
- Homelessness counseling
- Housing legal services