Las Vegas Coalition to Make Homes Possible to host monthly webinar series with housing counselors, starting Saturday, Jan. 29 at 10 a.m.

Nia Girma

LAS VEGAS — Sponsored by Homie, a tech-based real estate company, the Las Vegas Coalition to Make Homes Possible will host a new monthly webinar series enabling potential homebuyers to ask questions about how to get on the path to homeownership and receive free housing counseling in an online, group format.

The first session, hosted by Nia Girma, an Affordable Housing Advocate at State of Nevada Housing Division, will occur on Saturday, Jan. 29 at 10 a.m. and focus on down payment assistance. The webinar is free, but pre-registration is requested at https://www.makehomespossible.org/live-qa/.

 

Subsequent sessions will be held at 10 a.m. on the last Saturday of every month through May 28, and cover topics that often challenge potential homebuyers like homebuyer requirements, credit building, local market trends, student loan debt, and bankruptcy. Sessions will also promote various resources available locally and from Coalition partner agencies that can assist homebuyers.

 

 

The Las Vegas Coalition to Make Homes Possible launched in February 2021 to help close the Black homeownership gap in the Las Vegas Valley by empowering up to 25,000 families with the resources to achieve homeownership over the next ten years, including down-payment assistance, financial coaching, credit repair, housing counseling, and real estate services. In Southern Nevada, only 35 percent of Blacks are homeowners, compared to a supermajority for white households.

Amy Maier

A disruptor to the residential real estate industry, Homie is committed to making homeownership easy, affordable, and accessible to all.

 Through its Homie Helps community initiative, Homie convened a diverse group of community leaders and organizations as founding members of the Coalition, including the Urban Chamber of Commerce, Nevada Housing Division, city of Las Vegas, Nevada Partners, National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB), Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), NID Housing Counseling Agency of Southern Nevada, and AmeriFirst Financial. 

Homie Helps is supporting the Coalition’s first year of community awareness and outreach efforts, including staff, events, and advertising.

CONTACT: 

Amy Maier

 The Warren Group

 amy@twgpr.com