Housing Opportunity Center news

• Yahoo News: JPMorgan Chase Donates $1.5 Million to Detroit Community Hub Project

• Detroit Free Press: Snyder: $1.5-million grant will support students, neighborhoods

• Detroit News: $1.5M in grants to expand services at 3 Detroit schools, neighborhoods

• Mlive: Plan to turn Detroit schools into neighborhood hubs gets boost from bank

• Bloomberg News: Chase to invest $1.5M for Detroit Schools programs

• Michigan Chronicle: JPMorgan Chase invests $1.5M to aid neighborhood revitalization for DPS families in southwest Detroit

• Adult Learning Lab becomes a magnet for "Dreamers"

• Michigan Chronicle: Earn and Learn Program helps chronically unemployed find careers

• Two Piquette veterans graduate from Vets to Ag program

• Angel ascends at our Adult Learning Lab

• Piquette hosts leading job developer training

• Saved from foreclosure, southwest Detroit resident preserves her mother's dream

• ProsperUS graduates first class of entrepreneurs ready to help better Detroit

• Southwest Solutions adds Hector Hernandez and Ozzie Rivera to top leadership team

• Ford commits $10M to address needs in southwest Detroit and activate Mercado as community resource

• ProsperUS Detroit aids emerging entrepreneurs

• Affordable and move-in ready homes for sale

• Southwest Solutions finalist in national photo contest

• Model D: ProsperUS turns vision into neighborhood action

• Crain's story on supportive services for veterans cites Southwest Solutions

• ProsperUS Detroit: New $3M initiative to cultivate entrepreneurs

• Homeownership rally in Detroit draws 300 people

• Mortgage help for Detroit homeowners behind in their payments

• Remembering the remarkable life of David Cohen

• Returning combat vet finds peace of mind at Piquette Square

• Stand Down 2012 helps 500 veterans in need (photo essay)

• Fox2 News: 'Stand Down' event offers free services to veterans in Detroit

• Detroit Free Press story on Stand Down 2012

• Southwest Solutions receives $107,000 for foreclosure counseling in latest round of federal funding

• David Cohen honored for helping homeless vets get jobs

• Huffington Post: Global Detroit Neighborhood Development Collaborative gets $2.4M for business development

• Crain's highlights new collaborative to cultivate grassroots entrepreneurs in Detroit

• New project management course for veterans

• Promising start for Earn and Learn program

• Photo essay: The charitable spirit of the season

• Free Press article on veteran hiring bill cites our HRVP program

• Chase grants Southwest Solutions $245,000 to help families improve their finances

• Fox2 News: Green jobs program helping to redefine Detroit

• Earn and Learn program helps chronically jobless

• Crain's Detroit: New training initiative targets at-risk youth, chronically jobless

• Crain's Detroit: GreenWorks plans to grow

• Crain's Detroit: Southwest Lending Solutions helps Midtown buyers

• Detroit 2020 interviews HOC head Hector Hernandez about "Southwest Detroit on the Rise"

• New program will make homes in Hubbard Farms and Hubbard Richard more energy efficient

• Green jobs training program awarded $858,000 in federal funds to continue its exemplary work

• Free Press article on new Adult Learning Labs in Detroit

• Job readiness program helps Piquette veterans find work

• Crain's Detroit: Southwest Solutions forms mortgage unit, aims to revive home lending in Detroit

• Foreclosure assistance event draws 500 homeowners trying to save their homes

• High-ranking HUD official meets with Southwest Solutions leaders

• Adult Learning Lab opens: Helps low-income adults advance their education and job prospects

• GreenWorks event draws green-sector employers and community leaders

• Model D: Southwest Lending Solutions opens on West Vernor

• Homeless vet finds work, carries his father's mantle

• Detroit Free Press: Revisiting Detroit's Green Leaders

• Fox2 News: Felix Rosado Making Wooden Toys for Kids in Need

• Toy story: a Warm and redemptive holiday tale

• Chase awards Southwest Solutions $333,000 to help struggling families

• Adult Learning Lab opens in southwest Detroit

• Model D: Adult learning lab opens facing Clark Park

• Model D: GreenWorks turns Bagley building into bustling job training facility

• Money to start a business, buy a home or go to college: Apply for an IDA

• Loan modification scams on the rise: How we're helping raise awareness

• WXYZ-TV news story features GreenWorks helping veterans

• AOL.com features Piquette Square, GreenWorks and Coniel Norman

• Detroit GreenWorks Solutions on WDET: Listen to Chris Rutherford's interview

• New office helps distressed Macomb homeowners

• Leadership Detroit selects Hector Hernandez to class XXXII

• First GreenWorks weatherization class graduates

• Greening of Detroit first GreenWorks graduating class

• Model D article on Detroit GreenWorks Solutions kickoff

• Green blog in Free Press about Detroit GreenWorks Solutions

• Official launch event for Detroit GreenWorks Solutions on June 4

• First set of apprentices begin weatherization training program

• Helping the unemployed find work: Center for Working Families

• Hopeful applicants attend "green" jobs training orientation

• Free workshops to help with money management and energy bills

• LInda West to lead Center for Working Familes

• Latino families in Detroit and nationwide hard hit by foreclosure crisis, NCLR study finds

• Housing counselors can help struggling borrowers - Freddie Mac

• HOC teams with Freddie Mac to help distressed borrowers in 38 states

• Crains: Freddie Mac adds Southwest Housing Solutions to borrower’s network

• $4M federal grant to train southwest Detroit residents for green jobs

• Crains: Southwest Housing gets funds to train workers for clean industry jobs

• YouTube video from Skillman Foundation features our foreclosure counseling

• Demand for our foreclosure counseling services more than doubles

• Hector Hernandez is new head of Housing Opportunity Center

• HOC's Tina Ellis blogs for the Detroit Free Press: Beware of Foreclosure Counseling Scams
  

• HOC's Tina Ellis blogs for the Detroit Free Press: The Faces Behind Foreclosure

• WDET features HOC in Foreclosure series

• Chase awards HOC $79K for foreclosure prevention

• Kresge awards HOC $500K for foreclosure prevention