OSU Extension Housing Corps: A Partnership to Support Ohio Homeowners in Financial Distress
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2013-05-02
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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement
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OSU Extension Housing Corps is a new Ohiowide collaboration of faculty at the College of Education and Human Ecology and the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, OSU Extension, Ohio Housing Finance Agency, and the Ohio Commission on Service and Volunteerism. The goal of this unique partnership is to provide economically vulnerable homeowners in rural Ohio with information and assistance to prevent mortgage default and foreclosure. The partnership launched in autumn 2011 with a "planning year" grant and in summer 2012 with an AmeriCorps of 15 volunteers housed in and serving the rural areas in Ohio.
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IMPACT. 1: Since dispatching the AmeriCorps, over 1,500 rural homeowners have been provided with educational materials, community referrals, and hands-on instructions for applying to mortgage assistance programs. -- 2. The community need remains as urgent as ever: The fastest growth in foreclosure rates has been occurring in Ohio's rural areas.
OSU PARTNERS: College of Education and Human Ecology; College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; Department of Human Sciences; John Glenn School of Public Affairs; OSU Extension
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Ohio Housing Finance Agency; Ohio Commission on Service and Volunteerism
PRIMARY CONTACT: Caezilla Loibl (loibl.3@osu.edu)
OSU PARTNERS: College of Education and Human Ecology; College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; Department of Human Sciences; John Glenn School of Public Affairs; OSU Extension
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Ohio Housing Finance Agency; Ohio Commission on Service and Volunteerism
PRIMARY CONTACT: Caezilla Loibl (loibl.3@osu.edu)
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Engaged Scholars, v. 1 (2013).