NACA is a national housing group that helps people buy a home and keep it. It teaches free classes, gives one-on-one counseling, and offers a home loan with no down payment, no closing costs and no fees. Homeowners who struggle with their payment can ask NACA to work with their lender for a lower payment.
The HUB is a website built by the Urban League of Greater Atlanta to help people buy and keep a home, with a focus on communities of color. You can ask to meet with a HUD-certified housing counselor, join homebuyer and credit webinars, learn about down payment help, and browse a directory of lenders, agents, inspectors and builders.
Metro Fair Housing Services is a nonprofit civil rights group in Atlanta that has worked since 1974 to stop housing discrimination. It takes housing discrimination complaints, gives free housing counseling, teaches classes on fair housing, and tests and investigates possible violations.
Georgia Dream is a Georgia Department of Community Affairs program for homebuyers. It offers 30-year fixed-rate home loans and extra help with the down payment for people who qualify. You start by contacting a participating lender, and buyers must also complete homebuyer education.
This is a nonprofit law firm that helps Georgia families who own inherited land or a home without clear legal papers (called heirs property). It clears up the title, writes wills and estate plans, and helps owners reach home repair and land programs. Its services are free, but it cannot take every case.
Develop & Empower USA (D&E) is a HUD-approved housing counseling agency with its headquarters in East Point, Georgia. It helps people get ready to buy a home, buy one, and keep it, with credit counseling, homebuyer classes, and foreclosure help. It also runs job training, youth, senior, and veteran programs.
D&E, also called Develop and Empower USA, is a HUD-approved housing counseling agency in East Point. It helps people get ready to buy a home, buy one, and keep it, with credit counseling, classes, and foreclosure help. It also runs programs for job skills, youth, seniors, and veterans.
HUD is the federal housing agency. Its Georgia page sends people to the right place for housing counseling, public housing and Section 8 vouchers, FHA home loans, disaster help, and housing discrimination complaints. HUD says it is not a direct service provider, so most help comes through other groups it points you to.
Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation gives free legal help to Atlanta families. It helps people facing eviction or bad housing conditions, people who need a protective order after abuse, and families with custody and other family law problems. Every request starts with a phone call to their intake line.
Housing Justice League is a group in Atlanta where renters and homeowners organize to defend their right to stay in their homes. They run a tenant hotline, give out eviction defense manuals, and help neighbors form tenant associations. Volunteers also knock on doors to tell people facing eviction about their rights.
Fifth Third Bank is a bank with a branch in downtown Atlanta. Its mortgage team helps people who want to buy a home and can point them to down payment assistance they might qualify for. The Fifth Third Down Payment Assistance program has given up to $3,295 toward a down payment or closing costs, with no payback, for buyers who meet income and home-location rules.
Atlanta Habitat helps families in Atlanta and South Fulton County own safe, affordable homes. It sells newly built homes to qualifying first-time buyers, and it repairs homes for qualifying owners through a loan that can be forgiven. It also runs ReStore, offers money and home-care classes, and welcomes volunteers.
Resources for Residents and Communities (RRC) is a nonprofit in Atlanta that began in the Reynoldstown neighborhood. It helps people get ready to buy a home and look after it. It offers online homebuyer workshops, a renovation loan class, and one-on-one counseling.
Resources for Residents and Communities (RRC) is a nonprofit that helps metro Atlanta people get ready to buy and keep a home. It offers HUD-approved online homebuyer classes and one-on-one housing counseling. It also runs an all-volunteer Pet Patrol and invites neighbors to volunteer.
SUMMECH is a nonprofit housing counseling agency approved by HUD. It works in Mechanicsville in Atlanta. It teaches classes on buying and keeping a home, gives money and housing counseling, and rents out apartments and houses.
The Housing Help Center is the City of Atlanta's official housing resource center, and city employees called navigators work there. They help you find rental housing, homeownership help, and groups that can help with eviction, legal aid, utilities, home repairs and 311 code complaints. You ask for an appointment by filling out the intake form on the website.
The Urban League of Greater Atlanta has worked in metro Atlanta since 1920. Its Financial Empowerment & Economic Resilience Center is a one-stop place for emergency help with rent and bills, jobs, housing, small business help and money coaching. It also runs programs for young people and a water bill help program for DeKalb County.
Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation (AVLF) is a nonprofit that gives free legal help to qualified people. It helps with eviction and landlord problems and with protective orders for survivors of intimate partner abuse. Help starts with a phone call, not a visit to the main office.
Invest Atlanta is the City of Atlanta's economic development agency. It helps businesses with loans, bonds, tax credits, and one-on-one office hours. Its site also has a section for homebuyers and homeowners. Its work is for places inside Atlanta city limits.
The Homeowners Employment Corporation is a HUD-approved nonprofit that helps people buy and keep their homes through housing counseling, money education, mortgage services, and job-search referrals. Its current website lists a Conyers office; state records connect the same organization to 2440 Wall Street in Conyers, so the College Park address on file appears incorrect.
