Carson City, NV -
April 06, 2017The Nevada Housing
Division (NHD) has been named the country’s #1 state housing agency for 2016 by
U.S. Bank Home Mortgage. The award is based on the fact that NHD helped more
Nevadans buy homes than any other state agency in the country, although Nevada
ranks only 33rd in population.
More than 11,000
mortgages were funded through the Home Is Possible family of homebuyer
programs, which includes Home Is
Possible (HIP), Home
Is Possible Plus, Home Is
Possible For Heroes and Mortgage
Credit Certificate. These four programs are responsible for award-winning
numbers like these:
·
$1.1 billion in Nevada mortgages funded in
2016
·
11,020 Nevada families have purchased
homes of their own since the program began in 2014
·
About 30 veterans and military personnel
benefit from HIP For Heroes each month
NHD introduced the HIP For Teachers
program in 2017 to help recruit and retain teachers, which offers Nevada’s K-12
public school teachers $10,000 in assistance toward the purchase of a new home.
This is contingent on a teacher living in the home as their primary residence
for five years while continuing to teach.
“Nevada’s dynamic and
rapid growth is placing greater demands on our local communities and the State
has always worked as a committed partner with the private sector to improve the
lives of countless Nevadans,” said Governor Brian
Sandoval. “Home ownership helps build strong and safe communities and I am
pleased with the State’s continued efforts to help veterans, teachers, and
hundreds of families purchase homes. I am so proud of our housing division and
what it has done to improve the lives of thousands of Nevada families during
difficult times by helping them to achieve the American dream of owning a
home.”
For more information,
visit http://homeispossiblenv.org and
then contact a HIP-qualified
lender or REALTOR®.
About the Nevada
Housing Division
Our
mission is to provide affordable housing opportunities and improve the quality
of life for Nevada residents. Nevada Housing Division (NHD), a division of the
State of Nevada Department of Business and Industry, was created by the Nevada
State Legislature in 1975. NHD is committed to making Nevada a better place to
live and work. We connect Nevadans with homes by providing financing to
developers to build affordable apartment homes, by providing innovative
mortgage solutions, and by making more homes energy efficient, thereby lowering
utility expenses. To learn more, visit www.housing.nv.gov.
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