Asset Control Area Program and Dollar Homes Program: HPD, HUD, and the non-profit Restored Homes (RH) have partnered to facilitate the purchase, rehabilitation and sale of distressed properties to create affordable homeownership opportunities for low and moderate-income families.

Asset Sales: Many people have expressed interest in buying a dilapidated building and fixing it up themselves. HPD does not sell buildings in dilapidated condition to the general public. Occasionally, we sell a building at market value when we have buildings in better physical shape. Current tenants in good standing are given the first opportunity to purchase their building. If the tenants are not interested or not able to purchase the building, it is offered to the general public through an Asset Sales Request for Offers process.

Habitat for Humanity: If you are a low-income New York City resident living in overcrowded or substandard housing conditions, you could qualify for financing through Habitat for Humanity towards the purchase of a Habitat home in your community.

HomeFirst Down Payment Assistance Program: Many New Yorkers want to buy a home but don't have enough money saved for their down payment and closing costs. As part of Mayor Bloomberg's "New Housing Marketplace Plan," the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) created the HomeFirst Down Payment Assistance program. It provides qualified homebuyers with up to 6% of the home's purchase price as a forgivable loan to use toward the down payment or closing costs on a new 1-4 family home, a condominium, or a cooperative in one of the five boroughs of New York City. For information about Loan Servicing Procedures, click here or call (212) 863-6477 or 6094.

HomeWorks: Under this program, vacant City-owned buildings are completely rehabilitated by experienced developers and sold to individual homebuyers at market prices.

Housing Partnership Development Corporation: HPD works with the Housing Partnership Development Corporation, which is a leading intermediary for the development of new, affordable homeownership housing on publicly-owned and privately-owned sites. The program produces condominiums, single-family town houses and two-and three-family homes. For information about mortgage refinancing procedures, click here or call (212) 863-6095.

Low Down Payment Mortgage Financing for Uniformed Police Officers, also known as NYPD Home: Uniformed members of the New York City Police Department who have successfully completed their two-year probationary periods are eligible to participate in NYPD Home. Applicants must meet certain financial and credit requirements to be approved for a mortgage.

Nehemiah: The Nehemiah program is a collaboration between HPD and a consortia of community-based churches in Brooklyn that over the past 15 years has constructed nearly 3,000 single-family homes in the East New York and Brownsville sections of Brooklyn.

Neighborhood Homes: Under the Neighborhood Homes Program, HPD conveys occupied one- to four-family buildings to selected community-based not-for-profit organizations for rehabilitation and eventual sale to owner-occupants.

New Foundations: New Foundations calls for the construction of one-to-four family owner-occupied homes and cooperative/condominium units.

REO Program: Restored Homes acquires and rehabilitates foreclosed homes and sells them at affordable prices to qualified homebuyers. 

StoreWorks: The purpose of the StoreWorks Program is to rehabilitate small, vacant, mixed-use buildings currently owned by the City and restore them to private ownership and active use.