Useful Links

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1. Fannie Mae's Homepath: An interactive web site that takes you through the homebuying process and helps you find the Fannie Mae mortgage and lender that are right for you.
2. Federal Mortgage Insurance Programs: An official web site about federal mortgage insurance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
3. Habitat for Humanity International: Official web site of this international organization whose goal is to eliminate poverty housing. Includes links to local Habitat web sites, which give information for families who want to buy a Habitat home and for community members who want to volunteer for this program.
4. Homebuyer Education Tutorial by Freddie Mac: An excellent easy-to-understand guide to buying your first home, including sections on deciding if you are ready for homeownership, learning about credit, understanding mortgages, and finding a home you can afford.
5. HUD Data Sets: Data used in determining federal housing program eligibility and benefits, from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, including income limits.
6. New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority: MFA, as the state's official housing authority, administers over 35 programs that help the homeless, develop new affordable housing, help families become first time homeowners, and help existing homeowners refinance or make improvements to their homes.
7. Reaching the Immigrant Market: Creating Homeownership Opportunities for New Americans: From the Fannie Mae Foundation, a handbook describing some of the problems noncitizens face when trying to become first-time homebuyers. Includes strategies mortgage lenders can use to reach this market, and steps noncitizens can take to make homeownership possible. (requires Adobe Reader)
8. VA Home Loan Program: Extensive information about VA loans, including online forms, eligibility requirements, and contacts, from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
9. Rural Housing Service Homeownership Opportunities: Brief descriptions of loan guarantees and other homeownership programs offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to rural residents. Includes contact information for offices in New Mexico.
10. United South Broadway Corporation: A nonprofit corporation that helps eliminate barriers to credit, capital, and homeownership for low-income New Mexicans excluded from the economic mainstream due to poverty, race, or ethnicity.
11. Census Bureau Median Family Income By Family Size (effective through mid to late January, 2010): State median family income data by family size, for use in determining financial eligibility for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. From the U.S. Dept. of Justice.

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