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“Permanent Home Feeling” – an Empower Homebuyers SCC Update

Empower Home buyers

Housing Trust Silicon Valley’s virtual fall event, On the House, is on Tuesday, October 6. Get your tickets here! Empower Homebuyers – the Measure A funded down payment assistance program created by the County of Santa Clara and administered by us – has kept going through the pandemic and helped create 15 first time homebuyers…

Empower Homebuyers SCC Update

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Empower Homebuyers SCC Update

Empower Homebuyers SCC Update

Our Homeownership team continues to work remotely while finding ways to keep potential homebuyers engaged. In June and July, we held five Empower Homebuyers SCC Zoom webinars and a Lender Training, with about 320 attendees. To change things up and make the informational presentations even more interesting, the team introduced poll questions, which increased engagement…

Justin and kids

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Empowered by Home: Justin’s Story

Justin and kids

An assistant principal at Branham High School and a single dad, Justin Ponzio dreamed of having a home for his kids – ages five and six – to live and grow. When he found the Empower Homebuyers SCC program in 2019, the trio lived in a rental near a busy frontage road that was far…

Megan Ostiller.Empower

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Empowered by Home: Megan’s Story

Megan Ostiller.Empower

Megan, a Bay Area native and a special education teacher at Union School District in San Jose, had been living in a tiny apartment in Campbell. In her third year of teaching, she knew she wanted to stay in her community and was ready for something bigger but like so many educators in the region,…

Michele and Don and Curtis

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Home over Time: Michele & Don’s Story

Michele and Don and Curtis

Michele, an elementary schoolteacher, worked with our homeownership team in 2016 for our Below Market Purchase (BMP) program we administer for the city of Santa Clara. We caught up with her in 2018 – two years after she and her husband Don moved in, and they both expressed joy at living in a place where…

Homeownership at Work: First Empower Webinar Takes Shape

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Homeownership at Work: First Empower Webinar Takes Shape

Homeownership at Work: First Empower Webinar Takes Shape

Since the Shelter in Place order began, the Homeownership team closed two loans for Empower Homebuyers SCC – the Measure A funded down payment assistance program created by the County of Santa Clara and administered by us. One of the loans went to a Cupertino teacher named Dmitry and the other for Katie and Carlos’…

Empower Homebuyers SCC – Webinar on April 23, 2020

Empower Homebuyers SCC – Webinar on April 23, 2020

Empower Homebuyers SCC – Webinar on April 23, 2020

Join Housing Trust Silicon Valley for a free homeownership webinar about the Empower Homebuyers SCC program!

Learn about this new down payment assistance program and how it can help you become a first-time homebuyer in Santa Clara County.

Empowered by Home: Dmitry’s Story

Success Stories, Updates

Empowered by Home: Dmitry’s Story

Empowered by Home: Dmitry’s Story

Dmitry, a teacher for the visually impaired, has worked for the Cupertino Union School District for the last four years. He loves the community he serves and could not imagine working anywhere else.  Last fall, Dmitry first discussed his dream to own a home with his parents and they suggested he look into local down…