Housing Assistance

Pittsburgh Region

• Action Housing
  (Allegheny Council To Improve Our Neighborhoods) ACTION-Housing, since 1957, has used its financial and human resources to empower the most vulnerable families and individuals in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County to build more secure and self-sufficient lives through the provision of decent affordable housing and essential supportive services.
• Allegheny County Department of Human Services: Housing Resources
  Includes an 83-page HUD/HAP Contracted Providers Directory listing housing resources available to the homeless or near homeless population in Allegheny County. Individuals or families in need of housing can call appropriate agencies listed in the directory. Also lists nonprofit organizations that help with housing assistance.
  • Home Needs and Repair
• Allegheny County Housing Authority
  Their goal is to provide safe and affordable housing, with special provisions for senior and physically challenged citizens.
• City of Pittsburgh Housing Authority
  Attempts to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing to low income and elderly families in the City. HACP's programs are administered through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
• Energy Assistance
  • Peoples Natural Gas Energy Assistance Programs
  • Equitable Gas Special Programs
  • Columbia Gas: Need Help?
• Habitat for Humanity
  An international nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry with local affiliates that work to eliminate substandard housing and homelessness by restoring or building adequate, affordable shelter.
  • Allegheny Valley
  • Armstrong
  • Beaver County
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Greene County
  • Pittsburgh
  • University of Pittsburgh
• HEARTH
  (formerly North Hills Affordable Housing) operates Benedictine Place which is a unique program that offers transitional housing, empowerment, and support for homeless and displaced women with children.
• Lutheran Services Society of Western Pennsylvania
  The Lutheran Service Society of Western Pennsylvania maintains housing for low-income seniors.
• Nazareth Housing Services
  Nazareth Housing Services assists lower-income seniors and families to achieve and maintain safe and affordable housing.
• Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force
  Provides HUD Supportive Housing Program for people living with HIV/AIDS.
• The Pittsburgh Project
  Through work crews which give over 50,000 hours each year, their Home Repair Ministry provides free home repairs for homeowners who are elderly, poor, shut-in, widowed, disabled, or immobile.
• Rebuilding Together - Pittsburgh
  Formerly Christmas in April, Rebuilding Together - Pittsburgh is a non-partisan, non-sectarian and non-profit organization that engages in an annual one-day blitz to repair and rehabilitate homes of low-income, elderly and disabled homeowners.
• Urban League of Pittsburgh Housing Services
  The Urban League's housing counseling services programs provide services to help all people secure and maintain safe, appropriate, affordable housing. Residents of Allegheny County are assisted with problems related to housing including household budgeting and debt management, pending eviction, housing selection, tenant/landlord disputes, credit restoration, and foreclosure prevention.
• Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh
  Offers low interest rate loans for low income homeowners and home buyers in Pittsburgh.

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Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency
  The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency provides capital for decent, safe and affordable homes and apartments for older adults, persons of modest means and those persons with special housing needs.
• Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania
  formerly the PA Low Income Housing Coalition
  An advocacy group for increased resources for affordable housing.

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United States

• Federal Trade Commission: Facts for Consumers
  Mortgage Payments Sending You Reeling? Regardless of the reason for your mortgage anxiety, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, wants you to know how to help save your home, and how to recognize and avoid foreclosure scams.
• Habitat for Humanity International
  A Christian ministry that believes that all human beings deserve a simple, decent place to live on terms they can afford to pay.
• Federal Reserve Consumer Help: Foreclosures
  If you have a problem with a bank or other financial institution, contact the Federal Reserve for help.
• Homeownership Preservation Foundation
  The mission of the Homeownership Preservation Foundation is to preserve and expand homeownership. They provide online or telephone counseling for those facing foreclosure.
• Making Home Affordable
  Making Home Affordable is a key part of the Obama Administration's effort to help homeowners avoid foreclosure.
• National Housing Institute
  An independent nonprofit organization that examines the issues causing the crisis in housing and community in America. These issues include poverty and racism, disinvestment and lack of employment, safety, education, and breakdown of the social fabric.
• National Low Income Housing Coalition
  An advocacy group for affordable low-income housing. It publishes Out of Reach, an annual report on housing affordability in every jurisdiction in the country.
• US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
  Federal resources for the home buyer.
  • Let FHA Loans Help You
    Find out if you're eligible for mortgage assistance through HUD's Federal Housing Administration.