Home of Your Own (Disability Home Ownership)

Through this homeownership program, the Selection Committee of the Massachusetts _Home of Your Own Alliance_ will select individuals with a variety of disabilities from across the
state to receive technical support and financing assistance for homeownership. Coordinated by Citizens? Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA). The program provides down payment and/or closing cost assistance in the amount of $7,500 or $10,000* and includes both pre-purchase and post-purchase homeownership education through a statewide network of community-based non-profit agencies called homebuyer counseling agencies. Homebuyer counseling agencies have assisted thousands of low-income families and individuals along the path to homeownership. In order to qualify to receive the Massachusetts Home of Your Own Program's down payment and closing cost assistance, participants must notify CHAPA and the homebuyer counseling agency of their intention to purchase a property before they begin negotiations with the seller.