Preparing Home Buyers: Through a partnership with the Charleston Homeownership Resource Center, Metanoia offers quarterly homeownership and credit counseling classes in our community (see column to the right for our next class).  These classes give first time homebuyers the opportunity for down payment assistance. Day long classes are held at St. Matthew Baptist Church. Our average class attendance is over 30 people and several folks are usually approved for loans the day of the class.

    Beginning in January 2008, Metanoia also began to provide intensive 17 week financial literacy classes in partnership with the Charleston Area Community Development Corporation.   These classes meet for three hours a week and cover budgeting, credit counseling and homebuyer education.  They are offered for community residents and others who need a more intensive financial literacy curriculum to move toward buying their first home.

Finally, Metanoia also offers one on one homeownership counseling for neighborhood residents and others interested in owning their own home.  For anyone willing to become a homeowner in our community, Metanoia's Director of Housing Development will work with them to boost their credit scores and work on a budget that will allow them to purchase their own home.

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