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Housing
 Comité focuses mainly on land development and housing. Working with its member families and individuals, Comité acquires large parcels of desert. It subdivides and develops these, installing water and sewer systems, streets and street lights and dedicating land for schools and parks.
"Facilitate" the building of houses
Multi-Family
Information coming soon
Financing
Comité helps the members in many ways. Incomes range from $10,000 to $30,000. Half of them don't have any credit. That's because in Mexico, there is no credit. Some we arrange to join a credit union, borrow $500, and pay it back so that they can get a credit report. We help them get construction loans and mortgages. We get them up to $10,000 in subsidy for down payments and other costs. In the self-help program, we teach them how to build their own homes.
"Building our home was hard work. We had to learn how to use hammer and nails. We spend a year with all the people who are our neighbors now."
The Sanchez Family, self-help homeowners |
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Self Help
With support from Rural LISC, Comité created a network of self-help housing providers, involving six groups banding together to secure subsidies and deliver peer-to-peer technical assistance. So far, the network has secured one million dollars and is using these funds to subsidize the development of 100 self-help homes - 53 of which have been completed.
Home Ownership Counseling
We hold classes to teach our members how to budget. We counsel them on credit.
Financial Literacy Training
Bienestar Housing Resource Center is a one-stop center to help our members and the general public meet their housing needs. Download our brochure in English or Spanish.
Credit Repair Loans
Bad Credit? No Credit? We help our members fix their credit and get on a waiting list for one of our housing programs.
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