Homeownership Production

- New Homes

- Self-Help

- SystemVision

- IDA Partnership

- Mortgages for First-Time Home Buyers

Home Repair and Rehabilitation

Supportive Housing Development

Rental Housing Production Program

Becoming a CHDO

Housing-Related Counseling

Resources and Recognition

Self-Help Loan Pool

The Self-Help Loan Pool assists self-help housing organizations, such as Habitat for Humanity, to build homes for their clients.

The North Carolina Housing Finance Agency provides a mortgage which is combined with the nonprofit’s funding the borrower with one affordable, interest-free first mortgage. Home buyers use the financing to purchase homes developed by Loan Pool members. This assistance is targeted to home buyers with incomes below 80% of the area median income.

Homes funded by the Self-Help Loan Pool must be located in:

• new subdivisions,
• comprehensive neighborhood revitalization areas, or
• strategic in-fill developments.

For each home developed under the program, we will provide up to $20,000 to the home buyer. For services rendered in preparing buyers and closing the Self-Help loan, the Member is paid $1,000. They are also eligible to apply for a construction subsidy of $4,000 for each home built under the SystemVision Energy Guarantee Program.

To become a Loan Pool member and obtain project approval, organizations complete the Application for Loan Pool Membership/Project approval. For more information, see the Guidelines for Loan Pool Membership.

Once approved, the Loan Pool member serves as the liaison between the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency and the home buyer, submitting the buyer’s loan application and making the loan reservation on a case-by-case basis. The borrower pays back the first mortgage “combo loan” – which is a combination of the Agency’s financing and the Loan Pool member’s funding – to the Loan Pool member. The member in turn makes monthly payments to the Agency for its share of the combo loan.

Home buyers who borrow through the Self-Help Loan Pool must complete housing counseling. Loan Pool members can either offer the counseling themselves or partner with a counseling organization in the community. For information on training for counselors, go to Workshops and Technical Assistance.

Members of the Self-Help Loan Pool