Countrywide Financial Corp (casa.countrywide.com)
Bank of America (www.bankofamerica.com/espanol
Citibank (www.citibank.com/espanol)
MSN Latino Personal Finance Center (www.msnlatino.com)
KB Home (www.kbcasa.com)
California HomeFinancing Authority (www.calhfa.ca.gov)
Neighborhood Housing Services of Orange County (www.nhsoc.org)
LA Neighborhood Housing Services (www.lanhs.org)
Neighborhood Housing Services of the Inland Empire (www.nhsie.org)
NeighborWorks (www.nw.org)
ACORN (213-747-4211, ext. 215)
Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana (www.hermandadmexicana.com/home/homeowner.pdf)
Univision.com's Casa Channel (www.univision.com)
California Assn. of Realtors (Spanish language buyers guide available at most realty offices)
Article states:
"Qualifying for a loan sometimes takes months ... because borrowers often must finesse four layers of lending for one purchase: institutional lenders, such as Bank of America for the first mortgage; private-funding sources, such as Orange County Affordable Housing Trust, for the second; Cal HOME for 24% of the purchase price in deferred loans; and down-payment assistance such as city grants."
This, I'm assuming, is in ADDITION to the 3 or 4 family names on the title!
this is one of the reasons we left San Jose, CA... multiple families crammed into one house, taking up all the parking...
we left six years ago... and now that same little 3-bedroom, 1-bathroom in that neighborhood is going for over $500,000!! ojala! (i bought it for $155,000 in 1990.)