127 organizations
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National Faith Homebuyers is a HUD-approved nonprofit with an Atlanta-area branch in Marietta. They help people buy homes through housing counseling, homebuyer education, Georgia Dream help, down payment assistance, and free foreclosure prevention counseling.
5 services
National Foundation for Debt Management is a nonprofit credit and housing counseling agency. It helps people by phone, online, and sometimes in person with debt management, credit counseling, money education, homebuyer counseling, and reverse mortgage counseling.
7 services
SERCAP helps low-income people and rural communities with safe water, septic systems, housing, small business support, and community development. In Georgia, it works through GA RCAP to provide training, technical help, and financing help for rural water and wastewater systems and related projects.
13 services
The Drake House helps single mothers and their children in North Fulton who are experiencing homelessness. It provides short-term furnished housing, basic needs, mentoring, classes, career help, and a next-step affordable housing program.
12 services
Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation gives free legal help to Atlantans who need safe housing or safety from intimate partner abuse. They help low-income tenants with evictions, repairs, landlord problems, and housing court, and they help survivors file protective orders and connect to support.
16 services
Credit Advisors Foundation is a nonprofit credit counseling agency that helps people deal with debt, housing money problems, bankruptcy counseling, and student loans. It offers help by phone and online, including HUD-approved housing counseling for people buying a home, behind on a mortgage, facing foreclosure, or needing rental education.
5 services
Apprisen is a nonprofit financial counseling agency. It helps people make a budget, review debt, improve credit, plan for housing costs, and understand bankruptcy options. Help is available online, by phone, virtually, and at some offices outside Georgia.
11 services
The Georgia Department of Community Affairs runs the Housing Choice Voucher program for most Georgia counties. It helps very low-income people and families rent safe homes by paying part of the rent directly to landlords, but its regular tenant-based wait list is currently closed.
9 services
Marietta Housing Authority is a public housing agency in Marietta that helps low-income households get and keep affordable housing. It runs Housing Choice Vouchers, HUD-VASH vouchers for eligible homeless veterans referred by VA, a Family Self-Sufficiency program for voucher participants, and some affordable apartment communities. Its Housing Choice Voucher waiting list is currently closed.
9 services
Credit.org is a nonprofit financial counseling and education agency. It helps people with credit, debt, budgeting, housing counseling, renter education, foreclosure prevention, and homebuyer education by phone, online, and through offices in several states.
13 services
Chico Rancheria Housing Corporation is the housing entity for the Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria in Chico, California. It helps low-income Native American and Mechoopda tribal families with affordable housing, rental help, move-in costs, home repairs, homebuyer help, and self-sufficiency planning.
11 services
Debt Management Credit Counseling Corp. is a nonprofit credit counseling agency based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It helps people by phone, online, and in person with budgets, debt repayment plans, credit reports, bankruptcy certificates, and housing counseling.
12 services
The Actors Fund is now called the Entertainment Community Fund, and its own site says it continues The Actors Fund services. It helps people who work in performing arts and entertainment with health insurance counseling, emergency financial help, mental health referrals, housing information, and career support. Its health insurance help is available nationally, including to people in Georgia, by phone or online portal.
10 services
The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies is a national disability-led group that helps people with disabilities before, during, and after disasters. Its Disability & Disaster Hotline gives information, referrals, guidance, technical help, and resources for urgent disaster needs.
5 services
Military Housing Assistance Fund helps active military members, Guard and Reserve members, veterans, and military families buy homes. They provide free gift funds and connect applicants with trained real estate and lending teams to help lower closing costs. They do not offer rental assistance.
2 services
Advantage Credit Counseling Service, Inc. is a nonprofit credit counseling agency based in Pittsburgh that serves Georgia by phone and online. They help people understand debt, make a budget, review credit, and decide if a debt management plan, bankruptcy counseling, or housing counseling may help.
9 services
Habitat for Humanity DeKalb is a nonprofit that helps people in DeKalb County have safer and more stable homes. It focuses on critical home repairs for seniors and veterans, affordable homeownership, homeownership education, and volunteer-supported fundraising events.
6 services
Serenity Haven Housing, LLC, also called Serenity Haven House, offers transitional and shared housing in Atlanta for adults who are homeless or need a fresh start. They work with case managers, social workers, hospitals, agencies, probation officers, and parole officers to help people apply for supportive housing placement.
2 services
The Georgia Department of Community Affairs is a state agency that supports housing and community development across Georgia. It helps through programs like Housing Choice Vouchers, homebuyer assistance, homelessness resources, and grants to local partners, but many services are handled through partner agencies or waiting lists.
11 services
The Actors Fund now operates as the Entertainment Community Fund, continuing The Actors Fund services. It helps people who work in performing arts and entertainment with emergency money help, career counseling, health insurance guidance, housing information, mental health support, and programs for older adults.
12 services
