U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD provides a variety of resources for homeowners at risk of foreclosure. The Department funds free housing counseling services throughout the country. HUD-approved counselors can help homeowners understand the law and their options, organize their finances, and represent borrowers in negotiations with their lenders if this assistance is needed.
- Telephone: 1 (800) 569-4287
- HUD-Approved Housing Counseling Agencies in your state: Click Here
NeighborWorks
NeighborWorks was created by Congress to provide financial support, technical assistance, and training for community revitalization efforts. NeighborWorks provides a variety of resources for preserving homeownership in the face of rising foreclosure rates including HOPE for Homeowners, a toll-free national hotline that offers free foreclosure prevention and counseling advice from a third party, HUD-certified, not-for-profit network of counseling agencies dedicated to helping homeowners avoid foreclosure.
- HOPE for Homeownership Hotline (in English and Spanish): 1-888-995-HOPE
Government Sponsored Enterprise Resources
GSEs also provide excellent resources for Congressional offices seeking to aid constituents facing or at risk of foreclosure.
Fannie Mae
Fannie Mae’s Know Your Options provides educational tools and resources that are beneficial for potential and current homeowners, including options for avoiding foreclosure.
Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac helped to develop and fund Don’t Borrow Trouble, a comprehensive consumer awareness and foreclosure prevention campaign. In addition, Freddie Mac has partnered with national non-profit organizations, counseling agencies and several lenders on a foreclosure-avoidance initiative designed to reach out to delinquent borrowers early on and provide appropriate counseling through trusted intermediaries to help avoid foreclosure.
- Information on Don’t Borrow Trouble here.
U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD provides a variety of resources for homeowners at risk of foreclosure. The Department funds free housing counseling services throughout the country. HUD-approved counselors can help homeowners understand the law and their options, organize their finances, and represent borrowers in negotiations with their lenders if this assistance is needed.
- Telephone: 1 (800) 569-4287
- HUD-Approved Housing Counseling Agencies in your state: Click Here
- Additional HUD resources for avoiding foreclosure: Click Here
NeighborWorks
NeighborWorks was created by Congress to provide financial support, technical assistance, and training for community revitalization efforts. NeighborWorks provides a variety of resources for preserving homeownership in the face of rising foreclosure rates including HOPE for Homeowners, a toll-free national hotline that offers free foreclosure prevention and counseling advice from a third party, HUD-certified, not-for-profit network of counseling agencies dedicated to helping homeowners avoid foreclosure.
- HOPE for Homeownership Hotline (in English and Spanish): 1-888-995-HOPE
- Find a HUD-certified NeighborWorks organization: Click Here
- Information on the Center for Foreclosure Solutions: Click Here
Government Sponsored Enterprise Resources
GSEs also provide excellent resources for Congressional offices seeking to aid constituents facing or at risk of foreclosure.
Fannie Mae
Fannie Mae’s Know Your Options provides educational tools and resources that are beneficial for potential and current homeowners, including options for avoiding foreclosure.
Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac helped to develop and fund Don’t Borrow Trouble, a comprehensive consumer awareness and foreclosure prevention campaign. In addition, Freddie Mac has partnered with national non-profit organizations, counseling agencies and several lenders on a foreclosure-avoidance initiative designed to reach out to delinquent borrowers early on and provide appropriate counseling through trusted intermediaries to help avoid foreclosure.
- Information on Don’t Borrow Trouble here.
