Greensboro, NC – Housing Consultants Group (HCG), based in Guilford County, is celebrating 20 years of guiding paths to financial wellness and homeownership in and around the greater Greensboro community. Since 2004, more than 13,000 people in Guilford, Alamance and surrounding rural counties have received housing and foreclosure counseling services, financial education and homebuyer education. HCG works with corporate sponsors, professionals in the real estate industry, and experts in housing and financial arenas to ensure those in need of their services have access to them. For more information, call 336-553-0946 or visit housingconsultantsgroup.org.
“It’s been a wonderful and rewarding adventure helping build this organization,”
said Sofia Crisp, Housing Consultants Group, Founder and CEO, “and although we are celebrating our 20th anniversary now, we’re not celebrating for too long. We have much more work to do!” Housing Consultants Group was established in 2004 as a 501(c)3, nonprofit organization.
HCG’s mission is to increase and improve financial capability and enhance the potential for wealth creation through investing, banking, financial relationships, and homeownership. Services are tailored to assist diverse populations based on demographical statistics to assist adults— particularly the unemployed, underemployed, dislocated workers, unbanked, and under-banked populations—in learning the basics of handling their money and finances, including how to create positive relationships with financial institutions. HCG provides services to families in the Piedmont/Triad and surrounding rural areas of North Carolina.
HCG is a HUD-approved Housing Counseling Agency and therefore offers one-to-one individual counseling and coaching. They work with partnerships in the community and with other nonprofits to facilitate and ensure that program participants acquire the requisite skills to move towards long-term, economic self-sufficiency, financial capability, and sustainable homeownership. Key accomplishments over 20 years include:
- 13,609 served Guilford, Alamance and surrounding rural counties, since 2007
- 1300 homeowner assisted with mortgage payment assistance, provided by the North Carolina
Foreclosure Prevention Fund, saving homes from foreclosure in 2008 - 1500 new homeowners received downpayment assistance since 2019; assisting in the purchase of over $93M homes since 2019
- 1480 educated in our Financial Wellness Boot Camps since 2019
Supporting individuals and families to enhance financial wellness through education, counseling, financial relationships, and sustainable homeownership.
