City program helps first-time buyers
By Janis Mara, STAFF WRITER
 

HAYWARD -- Jose and Marilyn Camacho bought their first home in southern Hayward this year with the help of the city's First-Time Homebuyers Program.

"We found our house the first night we looked," said Jose Camacho, who brought a cake to Sam Thompson, the coordinator of the program, as a thank-you present when his escrow closed. The Camachos bought a single-family residence for $323,000 with financial assistance from the program. read more

 

 

Home At Last
First-time buyers manage to fulfill their dream despite high prices

August 13, 2003
By    Andrew LePage

Bee Staff Writer

 

Homeownership long seemed a pipe dream to Patricia Ross, a single, working mother of three who paid her apartment rent with a federal subsidy.

But this summer she bought her three-bedroom, two-bath "dream house" in a well-kept neighborhood north of Elk Grove, near Highway 99. The mortgage payment is roughly the same as what it cost her to rent.

Ross is one of many first-time buyers who've found ways to squeeze into the region's housing market despite record prices. In Sacramento County, for example, the median resale price has nearly doubled, to $235,000, since 1998. read more

  

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Getting Started

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First Home Incorporated/California Dream Alliance
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FREE First-Time Homebuyers Classes

Classes offered in English and Spanish

Qualify for mortgage assistance programs

 

Please call: HomeOwnership Center/Unity Council  

(510) 535-6943

 

By attending these workshops, and receiving the free counseling associated with them, you become eligible for mortgage assistance and down payment assistance offered by many cities and the state of California.  Oakland offers $50,000, and Hayward $20,000.  There are also special programs for teachers and other public service workers.  Please call to take advantage of this great opportunity.

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