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ABOUT NHSNB
It is the purpose of NHSNB to increase homeownership opportunities and ensure that all Connecticut residents enjoy the right to safe, affordable housing and the choice of where they want to live. NHSNB is especially sensitive to the difficulties of individuals and families whose life challenges and barriers often find them living in poor or unsafe conditions. NHSNB tries to help residents improve living environments, work toward independence and foster self-esteem. By providing a sound structure of wrap-around housing services for people in need, we help them to achieve a dignified and productive future.
Neighborhood Housing Services is a non-profit housing corporation that has been providing financial assistance, technical support, and housing-related services to neighborhoods in Greater New Britain and Central Connecticut for 28 years. Originally created to assist existing owners repair and improve their homes, the mission of NHSNB has broadened over the years to meet the demands of social, economic and cultural changes.
Today, NHSNB is a partnership of residents, government and business collaboratively responding to the local housing, neighborhood revitalization and economic independence needs of our diverse, working poor communities. NHSNB is a member of the national neighborworks of America network and has extensive experience in financial home rehabilitation and the national property improvements, education, and counseling clients for homeownership and economic independence, and developing new affordable housing and real estate venture projects.
NHSNB is a HUD-certified Community Housing Development Organization and Local Housing Counseling Agency and is licensed with State Banking for second mortgages. As a well respected provider of homebuyer education and counseling, NHSNB has a reputation as a forerunner and a producer of new first-time homebuyers in the nation.
Last fiscal year, NHSNB provided bilingual group training and individual counseling services to 495 potential homeowners including residents from Greater New Britain and provided homebuyer education for the state's Community Housing Finance Authority (CHFA) for the last twelve years and delinquency counseling for the last seven.
In 2002, New Britain served as lead agent for NHS of Connecticut, Inc. (a consortium of state NWOs) and successfully obtained funding to increase opportunity for economic independence among underserved populations by introducing financial literacy training to bilingual families in the state's seven largest cities.