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NeighborWorks® Southern Mass is an approved Housing Counseling Agency. NeighborWorks® Southern Mass is certified by MassHousing, the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Citizens for Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA).
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We identify the five steps to finding a home, and give you the tools you need to succeed.
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NeighborWorks® Southern Mass creates its real estate development projects as joint ventures with other nonprofits. NeighborWorks® Southern Mass recognizes the demand for special needs, transitional and permanent housing. Working in collaboration with other non-profits has allowed NWSOMA to develop housing for people and families without a home, battered women and their children, and developmentally handicapped and disabled adults. NeighborWorks® Southern Mass provides a variety of different developmental needs and services to the communities of the South Shore.
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Our objective: To eliminate substandard living conditions and to do home improvement on single and multi family units. Grant funds must be used to address sanitary code violations, energy conservation goals and incipient violations. Read more about the types of lending available to you.

News

Baker proposes $1.3B Affordable Housing Bond

April 27, 2017

Quincy – Standing at the future home of a Quincy Point apartment building that will feature more that 110 units of affordable housing, Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday announced he would seek a $1,287 billion bond for affordable and public housing across the Bay State.

At Quincy project site, Baker calls for $1.3 billion in housing funding

April 25, 2017

Quincy – Gov. Charlie Baker used the site of a planned Quincy Point affordable-housing development as the backdrop to announce that his administration was seeking $1.3 billion for such projects.

Weymouth project to provide housing to six veterans

April 19, 2017

Weymouth – Francisco Ureña held up a single key and asked the crowd in front of him to recall the sound of a key turning to open a locked front door.

Home for veterans to get Weymouth salute

April 12, 2017

Weymouth – The plight for veterans who are homeless or in danger of not having a place to live will be eased when a two-story home with six units opens on Route 18 near Liberty Square Weymouth.

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US Veteran Finds A Home

David Ortega is a retired sergeant and Iraq War veteran, Ortega lives with his wife and four children in a four-bedroom, single-family Quincy home that NeighborWorks® Southern Mass and the City of Quincy purchased and renovated for veterans’ housing in 2013. Before they moved in, David and his family were homeless. “As a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, I am truly grateful for being able to provide my family with a safe and comfortable home,” Ortega said. “NeighborWorks® has just been awesome: My kids love the house, they have friends that sleep over and play in the backyard. It’s just been amazing. I could not ask for more.”
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