Northern Panhandle Home Consortium - Providing Solutions For Affordable Housing For First-Time Home Buyers

Mission Statement

The Northern Panhandle HOME Consortium was established to create affordable housing opportunities in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia. The Consortium's primary focus is to provide down payment and closing cost assistance to income-eligible first-time homebuyers who purchase homes within the Consortium's geographical region.

What is the Northern Panhandle HOME Consortium?

The Northern Panhandle HOME Consortium is an agency set up to help the first-time home buyer with financial assistance in buying a house.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) allocates HOME funds to local communities for a variety of housing programs that fall under certain Federal guidelines.

In order to access HOME funds, the four counties and the two largest cities of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia entered into a consortium agreement. The resulting "Northern Panhandle HOME Consortium" has been able to draw HOME funds from HUD for housing programs to benefit income-eligible persons in the Consortium's service area.

The Northern Panhandle HOME Consortium has developed a "First-time Homebuyer Program", in compliance with Federal guidelines, to provide up to $10,000 of down payment and closing cost assistance to income-qualified first-time homebuyers who purchase a home in Hancock, Brooke, Ohio and Marshall counties, and the cities of Wheeling and Weirton, West Virginia.