HRI is devoted to providing education, advocacy, and resources to help you purchase, maintain, and keep your home. Our professional services are offered in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington, Racine, Kenosha, and Walworth counties.

Providing Mortgage Assistance
to Prevent Foreclosures

Services for Homebuyers

Give your Family the Home They Want

Become A First-time Home Buyer
with Housing Resources Inc.

We are a non-profit organization that is solely aiming at helping families in buying their own homes. We provide home counseling services and mortgage assistance to low and moderate-income families. Our goal is to create more awareness and facilitate homebuyer education. Our goal is to ensure that people from all strata are ready to become first-time homebuyers.

Get Assistance to Buy a Home in Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Walworth, Waukesha, Washington, and Ozaukee Counties

Housing Resources Inc. was founded in 1991 in the Milwaukee area to provide home buyers with better education and counseling services about homeownership and housing development in the city. Over the years, we have built a reliable track record as an organization dedicated to helping families in need to buy a home.

Currently, we offer our home ownership services to families residing in Milwaukee, Racine, and Waukesha. Our organization’s work contributes to the social community by:

  • Helping stabilize the needy families
  • Making way for neighborhood improvement
  • Supporting homebuyers in building and sustaining value for the future generation

Services for a First-time Home Buyer

Home Buyer Classes

One-on-One Counseling

Grants

Pay for a Credit Report

Home Buyer Classes

Housing Resources Inc. is dedicated to helping low and moderate-income families to buy a home. As a part of this, we conduct online classes and monthly workshops to provide better homebuyer education. Topics covered include:

  • Are you ready to buy a home
  • Getting a mortgage loan
  • Managing your money
  • Shopping for a home
  • Understanding credit
  • Keep your home and manage your finances

One-on-One Counseling

We also provide one-on-one counseling sessions where experienced specialists advise you on an action plan designed to help you become a first-time homebuyer. We discuss the following:

  • Assessing finances, needs, and affordability
  • Loan product and lender selection
  • Setting goals
  • Coordinating pre-approval applications
  • Correcting credit & budgeting assistance
  • Home inspection review
  • Assembling loan packages & processing
  • Grant application and qualification
  • Assisting in selecting insurance professional
  • Loan closing overview
  • Real estate broker selection

Grants

Housing Resources Inc. can help you in applying for the following grants:

  • Down Payment & Closing Cost Grants
  • Downpayment Plus®
  • Milwaukee Home Down Payment Program
  • Movin’ Out AHP Down Payment Assistance
  • Havenwoods Employer Assisted Housing Program
  • Homeownership Opportunity Program (HOP)
  • Housing Cost Reduction Initiative (HCRI)
  • The PATH Program
  • Wintrust Down Payment Assistance
  • Chase Homebuyer Grant
  • HOME Consortium Down Payment Assistance

Services for Home Owners

Mortgage Assistance

Tool-Loan Program

Minor Home Repair

Homeowner Workshops

Post Purchase Counseling

Default Counseling

Reverse Mortgage Counseling

Racine Financial Empowerment Center

Mortgage Assistance Services

  • Milwaukee County Mortgage
    Assistance Program
  • City of Racine Mortgage
    Assistance Program
  • Waukesha County Mortgage
    Assistance Program

Our Esteemed Partners

Housing Resources Inc. is a non-profit organization. We are constantly supported and motivated by the continued cooperation of all our partners and associates.

12000+

Supported

families to build a home.

1340+

Assisted

first-time homebuyers in getting a
payment grant.

120200+

Helped

people in receiving mortgage
assistance.