Thursday afternoon in Council chambers, Mayor Sebastian Giuliano hosted representatives from Middletown's faith-based organizations for a discussion of strategies to prevent home foreclosures. A representative from Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro's office was also in attendance.
The group, Homes Saved By Faith (HSBF), and local alliance groups, the Middletown Ministerial Alliance and Home Ownership Providing Empowerment (HOPE), met to discuss the creation of ongoing workshops to help faith-based leaders to act as first responders and knowledgeable mediators for community members who are threatened with the loss of their homes through foreclosure.
The group discussed housing, employment and financial issues, and discussed ways in which the leaders in attendance could become essential facilitators in working to prevent foreclosures.
HSBF have already presented 13 workshops on foreclosure prevention in Connecticut and more, including seven at churches in the Middletown area, are scheduled. They have provided intervention services to more than 3,000 Connecticut residents and have acted as intermediaries with banks, mortgage companies, FDIC, HUD, CHFA and other organizations connected with mortgage, real estate and real estate financing.
For more information about the program, you may contact Reverend Debra Hopkins at 860-346-6757, Bishop William McKissick at the Middletown Ministerial Alliance at 860-983-2760 or Pastor Moses Harvill, President of HOPE at 860-680-8832.
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