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What a great benefit to employees! Aside from the basics, what benefits does your employer offer that you feel goes above and beyond what’s typically expected? #homeownership

Supporting your workforce takes many forms.

A historic shot across the bow to the appraisal industry? A mockery of redress for the millions of dollars denied to Black sellers through biased appraisals? Or both? At least appraisal bias is on the general public's radar - I don't recall it being widely discussed before the 2010s, though admittedly I wasn't in the housing field before then. "'To help eliminate racial and ethnic bias from home appraisals, we must ensure that the industry looks like America.' ... Under the terms of the Agreement, The Appraisal Foundation is required to establish a $1.22 million scholarship fund, which will be utilized to cover the cost of aspiring appraisers to attend Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal (PAREA) programs." HUD Reaches Groundbreaking Settlement with The Appraisal Foundation to Ensure Equal Opportunity in the Appraisal Profession | HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

- 📚 Hey Mississippi school teachers! Are you board certified and dreaming of owning a new home? 🏡✨ - If you're teaching in a designated critical shortage area, we’ve got amazing down payment assistance just for you! 🙌 - Mississippi Home Corp has replenished funds for the popular HAT program (Housing Assistance for Teachers). 💼 - This grant gives you $6,000 to buy a new home, and you can pair it with Mississippi Home Corp’s existing programs like Trusty10, which offers an additional $10,000! 💰💰 - Qualifications are straightforward: - Contribute 1% of your own money towards the sales price. - Work in a school district identified by the Mississippi Board of Education as a critical shortage area. 🏫 - Stay in that district for three years to have the grant fully forgiven. 🎓 - You can use this grant for all major loan programs: FHA, USDA, VA, and conventional. 🏠💼 🔗 Check the link below for a list of eligible school districts. If you have questions or know someone who could use this info, please share! I’d love to chat and see how we can help. 🤗💬 #MississippiTeachers #HomeOwnership #DownPaymentAssistance #HATProgram #TeacherGrants #HomeBuying #RealEstate #MississippiHomeCorp #Education #FHA #USDA #VA #ConventionalLoans

Combined 108 affordable housing units will be built in Asheboro, High Point as part of a $2.3 million grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta. Developers Wynnefield Forward LLC and Workforce Solutions LLC identified the need in the three markets. https://lnkd.in/gpDCVdi4

Dreaming of going back to Tri-C or CSU but held back by a past due balance? The Cuyahoga County Debt Relief Program is here to help! Eligible students can apply for up to $2,000 in debt repayment—but hurry, applications are due before the Spring 2025 semester begins! Who qualifies? ✅ Residents of Cuyahoga County for at least one year ✅ Previously enrolled at an Ohio public college or university, stopped out for at least one semester ✅ Carrying institutional debt that blocks re-enrollment (excluding federal loans) ✅ Planning to re-enroll at Cleveland State or Tri-C ✅ Meet federal Pell Grant income eligibility Don’t let past balances hold you back—schedule an appointment with College Now today at cngc.org/appointment! #CollegeNow #DebtFreeEducation #BackToSchool #CollegeFunding #TriC #CSU #ScholarshipOpportunity #EducationMatters #FinancialFreedom #StudentSupport #CollegeAccess #SaveMoney #InvestInYourFuture #ClevelandEducation

Guess what? #PAForwardStudentLoans are for PA residents attending school in OR out of state. So, no matter where PA students go to school in the US, our loan program is available at schools approved for federal student aid 👍 Learn more and apply at pheaa.org/PAForward

Before the regional banking crisis in 2023, private institutions regularly used bank loans to fund state of the art classrooms and spruce up their campuses. “First Republic Bank, and then probably secondarily Silicon Valley Bank, were two of the most concentrated lenders to independent schools across the country,” Chad Christoff, Director in Stifel's Education & Nonprofit Finance practice, tells Bloomberg. Now that this trend has come to a major holt, such schools are turning to municipal bond market. “The silver lining in the recent bank failures is that many institutions have woken up to the fact that bank financing is not always the most advantageous,” said Dev Talvadkar, a Managing Director in Stifel's Education & Nonprofit Finance practice. Read more below: #regionalbankingcrisis #provateschools #bankloans #FirstRepublic #SVB #munis #bondmarket

"MD Student Housing Receives $48M Funding from First Citizens Bank" Read the full article below..

Let's look at college housing through a different Lense. For the cost you are Or will be paying for college housing you might be able to buy a single Or multi unit home and create the same exact housing situation for your college student and roommates. Only difference is you now own the home 🏠 💵 We've all thought of it Or will think of it when the time comes and would love to speak with you on how to make this a reality. #Evolve #investmentproperty #icanshowyouhow #beyondbanking