The city of Mobile launched an affordable housing program that the mayor calls HoPE – Homeownership Provides Equity. The city is using $10 million from the American Rescue Plan Act – the COVID-19 relief program passed by Congress in 2021 – to help people make down payments on new houses.
) - Jacqueline Majumder owns a vacant piece of land in Trinity Gardens. It’s been in her family for years.
The mayor said Majumder asked city officials if she could use her Section 8 housing voucher to help buy a house. That has not been permitted under Section 8, which typically helps low-income residents afford to rent apartments. “Typically, when people think of vouchers, Section 8 housing, all you think about is renting,” Stimpson said. “So you take the same voucher and you apply that, you know, to start paying down a mortgage.”
“This is quite an experience that I have been hoping for for a very long time,” she said. “And I truly believe God is good.”encourage affordable housingMajumder’s home will be the 17th in Mobile built by Affordable Homes Gulf Coast but the first under the HoPE program. Terry Harbin, the firm’s regional president, said it is gold-plated, which mean the insurance costs will be significantly lower.
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