Housing
High-Cost Home Loans: Don't Be a Target
Homeowners Beware! You may be a target for abusive lenders trying to sell you a loan you can't afford. If this happens, you may unable to make the high payments and lose your home at a foreclosure sale or spend all of your spare cash paying off a loan you didn't need or want.
Homeless and Runaway Youth
Statistics on homeless and runaway youth. Common reasons why youth become homeless or runaway. Consequences of life on the street. What are states doing?
Homeless Children and Youth: Causes and Consequences
This November 2009 report explores the causes and consequences of the epidemic of homelessness among children and youth.
Homelessness in America
Fact Sheets, includes statistics and causes of homelessness.
Home on Wheels: Helping Mobile Home Owners Stay Put
Mobile homes (also known as manufactured homes) are popular with older Americans because they are usually more affordable than conventional homes. The cost of a mobile home may be up to a third less than a similar home built on site. The homes are built in a factory, and then transported to the site where they will be installed. Once delivered, the home is anchored to the site. Despite their name, the homes are not very mobile as dismantling them and moving them can be difficult and expensive. Despite the popularity of mobile homes, the homes’ owners face a wide range of problems. Consumers can run into trouble with the financing, set-up, and the quality of the construction of mobile homes. Many have problems obtaining service under warranty. Mobile home owners who rent the land on which the home is placed confront additional challenges.
Home Owner/Business Owner - All You Ever Wanted to Know About Homeowners Insurance
PDF document (may load slowly).
Homeowner Foreclosure Handbook
This guide provides answers to common questions about foreclosure.
Homeowners Insurance FAQs
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Homes and Communities: The HUD Web Site
Housing Information For... Citizens, Homebuyers, Senior citizens, Veterans/Military, Kids, Students, People with disabilities, Researchers, Landlords, Tenants, Colonias/farmworkers, Native Americans, and Victims of Discrimination.
Housing and Homeless Programs For People With Mental Health Issues
The Housing and Homeless Programs of SCDMH provide technical assistance and funding through vendor contracts to organizations, primarily non-profit organizations, that provide housing and services to persons with severe and persistent mental illnesses. Our mission is to provide people with mental illness the opportunity to live independently in the community of their choice with dignity and respect.
Housing Choice Vouchers Fact Sheet
The housing choice voucher program is the federal government's major program for assisting very low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to afford decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the private market. Since housing assistance is provided on behalf of the family or individual, participants are able to find their own housing, including single-family homes, townhouses and apartments.
Housing for LGBT People
When lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender couples set out to buy or rent a home, they may confront several forms of discrimination that married heterosexual couples do not face. LGBT couples can face discrimination in access to housing, and there is no federal law against it.