Home HeadQuarters, the City of Syracuse, community partners, contractors and residents came together to break ground on six (6) new single-family, affordable homes being built on Syracuse’s Southside as part of Syracuse Mayor Walsh’s RNI efforts and as part of NYS’s AHOP Program. All six homes are being built by NYS-certified Minority Owned Business Enterprises and will be available for purchase to income-eligible first-time homebuyers.
Read MoreThe ONAJAVA Coffee House project, with Home HeadQuarters developing the 1600 sq. ft mixed-use historic property that includes two 3-bedroom affordable apartments on the second level, was made possible with support from the City of Syracuse, NYS Empire State Development and the Allyn Family Foundation. The property sits at the entryway to a neighborhood long targeted by Home HeadQuarters with more than $60.4 million in loans and grants provided to families and 117 properties constructed or redeveloped.
Read MoreMayor Jared M. Kraham on Monday joined representatives from the First Ward Action Council, Home HeadQuarters and the New York State Division of Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) to announce $5 million in New York State funds to help Binghamton residents complete critical home repair projects.
Read MoreSo far, the state has committed $100.2 million for 15 projects approved by the state’s Homes and Community Renewal agency, which runs the program. Home HeadQuarters, a Syracuse non-profit that promotes home ownership, is approved to build 40 houses in Syracuse and is part of that $100 million.
Read MoreKerry Quaglia has hired and then sent into the world an all-star team of community leaders over his 28 years as CEO of Home HeadQuarters, a Syracuse nonprofit agency promoting homeownership and stable neighborhoods.
Read MoreKudos to Home HeadQuarters, the nonprofit housing organization based in Syracuse, for coming up with a novel way to finance home mortgages in neighborhoods being overlooked by traditional lenders.
Read MoreThe county is providing $280,000 for the Home HeadQuarters projects through the Onondaga County Housing Initiative Program, known as O-CHIP, which McMahon initiated last year with approval from the legislature. The nonprofit expects the new housing to cost $22.7 million.
Read MoreKerry Quaglia, the CEO of Home HeadQuarters, said his agency targets minority and low-income borrowers in the city because those groups are consistently under-served by most banks, mortgage companies and other traditional lenders.
Read More“Home HeadQuarters applauds New York Attorney General Letitia James for shining a much-needed light on racial disparities in homeownership and home financing across the state,” said Kerry Quaglia, CEO of Home HeadQuarters. “These racial disparities, or lack of equitable access to credit and quality housing for families of color, is the reason Home HeadQuarters was created almost three decades ago and is also why currently, every nine out of 10 new home purchases by families of color in Onondaga County is financed through our organization.”
Read MoreNew York State program expanded to include Central New York Homeowners can provide up to $50,000, in a 50/50 Loan/Grant, to address flood mitigation measures and make energy upgrades to the home.
Read MoreSyracuse Mayor Ben Walsh will help local nonprofit housing and community development organization Home HeadQuarters kick off their 16th Annual Neighborhood Block Blitz this Friday, September 15, 2023, at 9am, near the Creek Walk at Hunt and Rockland Avenues
Read MoreIvonne Fernandez came to the United States when she was 20 years old to escape an abusive relationship. She came with children, the youngest one just 10 months old. She knew no English, had no employable skills and other than the girlfriend she came with, knew no one in this country.
Read MoreThe Otisco Street home represents the first complete of seven new, eight total, single-family, all-electric, net zero homes slated for the neighborhood.
Read MoreWe last reported on the five planned single-family, new construction houses on Syracuse's Westside earlier this past summer when we broke ground on the first property.
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