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Take Root Denver homes provide a safe, energy efficient, quality living environment at an affordable sales price.
Take Root Denver homes provide a safe, energy efficient, quality living environment at an affordable sales price.
The following entities are proud to be participants in Take Root Denver:
The Denver Office of Economic Development (OED) is dedicated to advancing economic prosperity for the City of Denver, its businesses, neighborhoods and residents. Working with a wide variety of community partners, OED operates to create a local environment that stimulates balanced growth through job creation, business assistance, housing options, neighborhood redevelopment and the development of a skilled workforce.
OED facilitates the development of viable urban neighborhoods by providing quality affordable housing, an enhanced living environment, and expanded economic opportunities for low- and moderate-income residents. The Office offers finance assistance for residential housing, technical assistance for neighborhood revitalization, asset management and compliance assistance, and finance assistance for developers.
For more information:
www.MileHigh.com
Freddie Mac is proud to play a leading role in supporting the federal Making Home Affordable Program with the Freddie Mac Relief Refinance MortgageSM and our implementation of the Home Affordable Modification Program. Through these initiatives, we are working with Take Root Denver to help homeowners, stabilize the Denver community, and ensure that mortgages remain available and affordable.
Freddie Mac is supporting the housing market and answering the nation’s call to assist with its recovery. Our top priorities are providing essential liquidity to the market and helping to stem the foreclosure crisis. Over the past decade, Freddie Mac has invested approximately $124 billion in home loans, helping 795,200 Colorado families own or rent a home.
For more information:
www.FreddieMac.com
Denver Neighborhood Revitalization, Inc. is a Colorado non-profit committed to the improvement of Denver’s neighborhoods through the acquisition, rehabilitation and resale of foreclosed properties. In partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver and the Colorado Housing Assistance Corporation, DNRI will provide sites for the construction of new housing affordable to households making from 50% up to 120% of area median income. Colorado Housing Assistance Corporation will be providing critical homeownership counseling and down payment assistance to the buyers of these rehabilitated homes. Neighborhoods include:
Habitat will be developing housing affordable to households at or below 50% of the area median income on foreclosed parcels purchased through the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Eligible homeowners will be identified through the Habitat approval process.
For more information:
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver
3245 Eliot Street
Denver, CO 80211
Office: 303-534-2929
Fax: 303-534-2727
www.HabitatMetroDenver.org
The Colorado Housing Assistance Corporation will be providing eight (8) hours of homebuyer counseling to purchasers of Neighborhood Stabilization Program properties. CHAC will also provide down payment assistance to eligible homebuyers.
For more information:
Colorado Housing Assistance Corporation
670 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
Office: 303-572-9445
Fax: 303-573-9214
www.ColoradoHousingAssistance.org
The Neighborhood Development Collaborative (“NDC”) is a Colorado corporation made up of six local nonprofit entities. The three participating partnerships include: Del Norte Neighborhood Development Corporation, NEWSED Community Development Corporation, and the Northeast Denver Housing Center. The Denver Housing Authority serves as Manager of the Neighborhood Development Collaborative. NDC was selected to implement the City of Denver’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program with three areas of focus:
The CHCC coalition is a non-profit organization founded in 1980. Housing counselors and interested for-profit housing professionals in Colorado have joined together to simplify the process of providing information about a variety of housing-related issues.
For more inforamtion:
Colorado Housing Counselor Coalition
NEWSED Community Development Corporation and the Northeast Denver Housing Center are the lead agencies in the Single-family acquisition and rehabilitation program as well as providing homeownership counseling services. Neighborhoods include:
For more information:
Del Norte Neighborhood Development Corporation
926 Zuni Street, #202
Denver, CO 80211
303-477-4774
Office: 303-477-4774
Fax: 303-433-0924
TDD: 1-800-659-2656
www.DelNorteNDC.org
As a HUD Approved Counseling Agency, Denver Housing Authority (DHA) has provided pre-purchase counseling and education for over 16 years.
Clients are eligible to receive one-on-one case management in the areas of budgeting, credit repair, and debt reduction. DHA also completes mortgage qualifying assessments, provides referrals to organizations with down payment assistance, and provides referrals within the real estate and lending communities.
In addition, DHA offers monthly Homebuyer’s Club and CHFA-approved (Colorado Housing and Finance Authority) first time home buyer classes.
For more information or any questions, please contact:
Denver Housing Authority
HomeOwnership Program
3550 W. 13th Avenue
Denver, CO 80204
(P) 720-956-3801
(F) 303-592-7361
nmar@denverhousing.org
NEWSED is a Community Development Corporation (CDC), which has served the Denver Community for over 37 years. NEWSED's primary focus has been to solve long-term economic problems in disadvantaged communities by securing and coordinating resources for neighborhood revitalization, developing needed shopping areas and services, fostering minority and neighborhood business ownership, increasing affordable home ownership and rental opportunities, neighborhood organizing and hosting cultural events and activities that showcase Denver’s Latino population.
For more information:
NEWSED CDC
901 W 10th Ave
Denver, CO 80204
Office: 303-534-8342
Fax: 303-534-7418
www.NEWSED.org
Northeast Denver Housing Center (NDHC) has produced over 800 units of housing and served over 10,000 families through its housing counseling/ educational / case management services in its 28 years of service to the Denver community. NDHC’s mission is to create sustainable, healthy housing opportunities for underserved households through outreach, education and housing development.
For more information:
Northeast Denver Housing Center
1735 Gaylord Street
Denver, CO 80206
Office: 303-377-3334
Fax: 303-377-3327
www.NEDenverHousing.org
Take Root Denver offers translation in multiple languages by utilizing Google's free translation service. While it's common to find some imperfections in Google translations, this service provides easy access to translation in several different languages at no expense to Take Root Denver.
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The consumer information on TakeRootDenver.com is used with permission from Freddie Mac. Freddie Mac offers extensive, regularly updated consumer information about buying and owning a home on its website, www.FreddieMac.com, in the “About Homeownership” section. Freddie Mac is not responsible for content errors or omissions on TakeRootDenver.com.
The funding source of this activity is the City and County of Denver, Office of Economic Development with Neighborhood Stabilization Program funding, and Freddie Mac.