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Home Buyers' Programs

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California Housing Finance Agency Opens in new window
  • Provides certain home buyers with below-market interest rates on first mortgages and down-payment assistance

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  • Regional marketplace for affordable housing for buyers and sellers

Housing Trust of Santa Clara County Opens in new window
  • Programs include low-interest down payment and closing cost loans for first-time home buyers, and funds to assist the homeless in attaining stable housing.

Individual Development Accounts (IDA) Opens in new window
  • IDAs are matched savings accounts that enable low-income American families to save and build assets, usually their first home.

Neighborhood Housing Services of Silicon Valley Opens in new window
  • Offers to certain home buyers no-interest second mortgages which require no payments in the first 5 years

Santa Clara County Mortgage Credit Certificate Program Opens in new window
  • Financial assistance to first-time home buyers for the purchase of single-family homes, townhouses, and condominiums

South County Housing Opens in new window
  • Non-profit developer of affordable housing in California’s Silicon Valley and Central Coast Regions that provides home-ownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families and provides "critical neighborhood services and family resources"



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