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Good Neighbor Day – On Saturday, September 29, volunteers will gather to help their elderly neighbors with chores and repairs. Join us by sending an email. HomeOwnership Learning Center Fund Drive - Click to find information about our planned HomeOwnership Learning Center, to provide space for homebuyer education classes, individual counseling and homeownership planning offices, and a workshop to teach home maintenance, repair and improvement skills. If you would like to be part of the Learning Center Fund Drive, please click here for a copy of the pledge card, which you can print out and mail to the address of the card. To learn more about the campaign, read the Campaign Newsletter. Foreclosure Prevention - NeighborWorks Great Falls can assist families facing foreclosure with a mortgage analysis, lender negotiations and foreclosure prevention loans. More than 800 Montana families will face foreclosure this year. Help is available – call the Foreclosure Hotline at 1-888-995-HOPE. Imagine Downtown Great Falls – A community vision session has created 4 new task forces to create a future Downtown Great Falls. The task forces are Housing, Restaurant and Entertainment; Key Properties/Large Tenant Site; and Development Incentive Tool Kit. If you would like to join, please send an email Great Falls Housing Plan – Great Falls is growing and so are our housing needs. The City of Great Falls , First Interstate Bank and NeighborWorks are joining together with many other groups to create a Great Falls Housing Plan. Please send an email if you would like to join this group. High School Houses – The Advanced Building Trade students from Great Falls High School and CM Russell High are building their 20th and 21st homes at 722 5th Avenue South and 821 6th Avenue Northwest. The three bedroom, one bath homes will be available for purchase in June, 2008 at the end of the school year. Special thanks to School District 1, the City of Great Falls and Falls Construction for their help with these projects. Self-Help Homes – NeighborWorks is assisting 10 families to construct their own homes in the Castle Pines Addition south of town on 15th Street. All of the families work on all the homes and no one moves in until all of the houses are completed. NeighborWorks provides construction supervisor and group purchases. Families qualify for Rural Development loans as low as 1%, depending on income. NeighborWorks homes are sold to families with low or moderate incomes (see income guidelines). All families must complete homebuyer education to be eligible to purchase a home. |