Provides comprehensive services for current and potential homeowners, including first-time homebuyer programs, financial wellness counseling, down payment assistance, foreclosure prevention counseling.

Provides a pre-home buyers' course on budgeting, basic banking, credit and debt management, tax tips, the home buying process, asset creation, predatory lending, and financial goal setting. Clients receive a certificate upon completion of the course and are then entitled to one-on-one counseling and advice on specific financial matters.

Provide temporary shelter for single women and women with children who are homeless. Length of stay is 30 days with goal of moving to stable housing. Assistance with finding permanent housing and other resources.

Offers a variety of workshops and individual financial coaching sessions that cover each step of the home-buying process. Participants may receive information about and assistance with searching for a home, resolving potential credit problems, and obtaining a mortgage loan.

Provide temporary shelter for single women and women with children who are homeless. Length of stay is 30 days with goal of moving to stable housing. Assistance with finding permanent housing and other resources.

The Ohio Housing Finance Agency’s (OHFA) Ohio Heroes rewards Ohio residents who serve the public with a discounted mortgage interest rate. You can choose to include down payment assistance in your Ohio Heroes loan. Down payment assistance is forgiven after seven years. If you sell or refinance your home within seven years, you must repay all of the assistance provided. Qualified buyers are required to complete free homebuyer education. Information on OHFA’s streamlined education program is available on our website or, you may complete a course offered by any U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved counseling agency in Ohio.

Provide temporary shelter for single women and women with children who are homeless. Length of stay is 30 days with goal of moving to stable housing. Assistance with finding permanent housing and other resources.

Provides classes and individual counseling on budgeting, credit, mortgage loans, predatory lending, and home purchase preparation, including separate review of documents.

Provide temporary shelter for single women and women with children who are homeless. Length of stay is 30 days with goal of moving to stable housing. Assistance with finding permanent housing and other resources.

Provides housing counseling and information for first time home buyers especially those with low to moderate income. Offers information about the overall process of buying a home including but not limited to money management, lending, working with real estate agents, appraisals, loan document review, and closing information.

Provides pre-purchase education to increase knowledge and build home buying skills. Topics include money management, credit management, shopping for a home and the mortgage loan process. Also offers post-purchase education related to maintaining a home.

The Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) offers several affordable loan options to help you achieve your dream of homeownership. OHFA offers 30-year fixed rate FHA, VA, USDA-RD and conventional mortgage loans designed especially for homebuyers with low- and moderate-incomes, with generous income and purchase price limits.

Provide temporary shelter for single women and women with children who are homeless. Length of stay is 30 days with goal of moving to stable housing. Assistance with finding permanent housing and other resources.

Provides pre-purchase counseling, including guidance through the steps of cleaning up credit, purchasing a home, obtaining a mortgage, and advising how to avoid lending that preys on borrowers. Offers assistance if foreclosure on a home is threatened. Offers HUD-approved home buyer education on topics such as preparing for home ownership and obtaining an affordable mortgage.

Provides assistance with purchasing a home, including a homebuying workshop that includes information on the process of homebuying, explanation of duties involved in home ownership, review of sale agreements and loan documents and referral to programs that provide loans for purchase or renovation of a home. Agency provides housing counselors certified by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Following completion of the workshop, participants receive 1-on-1 homebuying counseling.

Provides counseling for those who are interested in buying and maintaining a home. Will review and explain loan documents. Provides information for those who may have or are in danger of falling behind on current mortgage payments on a home. Provides post-purchase information on home maintenance.

Offers HUD certified and City of Columbus approved home buyer education workshops for prospective home buyers. Participants will learn how to obtain, maintain and retain a home. Income eligible participants, who want to purchase a home in Columbus are eligible for down payment and closing cost assistance (up to $5000).

Provides financial education to agencies, organizations, individuals, and families. Offers programs in basic budgeting; credit and debt management; consumer issues and general money management. Call for more information. Neighborhood Lifelines: Foreclosure Prevention presentations are available to existing organizations/churches/neighborhood groups to provide basic information to help them help reach out to others in the community.

Provides free, comprehensive services for home buyers, homeowners and renters. Counselors educate potential homebuyers on: • Building a household budget • Understanding credit • Determining affordability • Obtaining a mortgage loan • Shopping for a home • How to build equity in your home After purchase, can provide one-on-one and group counseling for new homeowners to cover topics such as mortgage loan terms, property maintenance, home repair, and grant and loan assistance.

Provides guidance through the steps of cleaning up credit, purchasing a home and obtaining a mortgage. Offers seminars on topics such as buying a home and home equity loans.

Provides information on issues affecting individual finances, including preventing mortgage foreclosure, consumer issues, budgeting, wealth building, and notary services for the community.

Offers a variety of workshops and individual financial coaching sessions that cover each step of the home-buying process. Participants may receive information about and assistance with searching for a home, resolving potential credit problems, and obtaining a mortgage loan.

Provides mortgage foreclosure counseling and assists consumers in avoiding predatory loans. Counseling provided by member real estate professionals. Offers information and recommendations so that clients can make appropriate decisions to settle delinquent mortgage payments or to get out of default. In some cases, agency may contact and negotiate with lender on behalf of client in order to resolve the situation. Offers counseling on pre-purchase home counseling, classes to get pre-certified for FHA home purchasing and other housing counseling certificates, budget and credit counseling.