RESOURCES: FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYING
 
EARTH-BASED RESOURCES         and  CYBERSPACE RESOURCES



Local First-time Homebuying Speakers and Organizations
ABCD (Boston's Community Action Program)
342 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02112
Economic Development: (617) 357- 6000
Fuel Assistance: (617) 357-6012
 
Doreen Treacy
Boston Living Center
26 Court Street
Boston, MA 02112
Boston Home Center
(617) 635-4663
 
Florence Hagins
Director of Housing Counseling
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance
1803 Dorchester Avenue
Dorchester, MA 02124
 
Muriel Heiberger
Executive Director
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee (MIRA) Coalition
105 Chauncy Street Suite 402
Boston, MA 02112
(617) 350-5480
Angelo S. Nuby
Deputy Director, Boston Partnership Office
FannieMae
40 Broad Street
Suite 835
Boston, MA 02109
 
Penelope Pelton
Housing Access Counselor
City of Cambridge
Community Development Department
57 Inman Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
 
Herbert Riggs
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
513 Dudley Street
Roxbury, MA
(617) 442-9670
 
Nancy Sullivan
Deputy Director
North Shore Community Action Program
98 Main Street
Peabody, MA 01960
(978) 531-0767
 
Local Market Experts
 
Eve Moss
Principal, Clarendon Real Estate Advisors
(617) 342-7191
 
Avi Davis
Innovative Moves
(617) 522-0020
 
Materials on Lead Paint
 
Public Information Specialist
Office of Environmental Health
1010 Mass. Ave., 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
(617) 534-5965
 
"Lead Paint Poisoning: The Thief of Childhood"
Video, available in a number of languages, through the ALRI library
989 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 782-8956
 
Books on Home and Homebuying
 
Homeground
Edited by Kathyrn Trueblood and Linda Stovall
Blue Heron Publishing
24450 NW Hansen Road
Hillsboro, Oregon 97124
 
A multi-cultural collection about the author's views and dreams of home.
 
Buy Your First Home Now
Peter G. Miller
An easy-to-read and informative guide to buying a home.
Available through the Boston Public Library.
 
How to Buy a Home in the Unites States
The ESOL curriculum guide published by the FannieMae Foundation. The ALRI has numerous copies on hand.
 
How to Buy Your First Home
The Literacy curriculum guide published by the FannieMae Foundation. The ALRI has numerous copies on hand.
 
Opening the Door to a Home of Your Own
Choosing the Mortgage That's Right for You
These guides, written by the FannieMae Foundation, are available in a number of languages. To request, call 1-800-688-HOME.
 
On-line Homebuying Resources for Teachers
Compiled by Dulany Alexander, Veronica Gouvea, Sybil Schlesinger & Deborah Schwartz
 
HOMEBUYING:
http://www.fanniemae.com
Among other things this site includes calculators and text explaining the homebuying process

http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org
This site provides all homebuying explanations of all homebuying programs and initiatives
sponsored by the FannieMae Foundation including materials about obtaining mortgages, methods of ordering materials in different languages and access to research about homebuying trends.

http://home.digitalcity.com/boston/realestate
This is a listing of available Boston real estate.

http://www.freddiemac.com/homebuyers
This site includes a great, although wordy, home inspection kit.

http://www.bankrate.com
If you go to the sidebar category RATES, and select HOME, you can learn
about various mortgage rates and programs

http://www.realtor.com
After punching in financial and geographic criteria, this site displays actual
houses that are on the market that meet those criteria.

http://www.homebuyingguide.org
This is a commercial on-line listing of homes.

 
HOMEBUYING INSTRUCTIONAL SITES/CONTENT BASED INSTRUCTION:

http://sabes.org
The Massachusetts Department of Education's System for Adult Basic Education (SABES)
home page.

http://www2.wgbh.org/mbcweis/esquare/esq2.html
What happens when students and teachers research, visit and document places of interest as they
engage in project-based learning? This site, Esquare2, along with its sister site Esquare, is the
result of such projects, nicknamed "Virtual Visits." Included in these pages are many first-time
homebuying instructional projects. The concept of "Virtual Visits" was developed by Akira Kamiya, Tom MacDonald and David Rosen.

http://www2.wgbh.org/mbcweis/ltc/Housing/HousingHome.html
Accessible through a link from Esquare 2, this site walks you through a visit to a banker and broker. Created by Sam Bernstein and his class of ESOL learners at the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Centers, it's complete with bilingual student-generated questions and answers, interviews with bankers and brokers, and examples of housing ads.

http://www2.wgbh.org/MBCWEIS/LTC/ALRI/alri.html
The Adult Literacy Resource Institute's homepage. Look for the brand new 1999 Homebuying Readiness Curriculum Project!

http://www2.wgbh.org/mbcweis/ltc/fnma2/fnma2.html
The 1998 homebuying readiness project links to the first years project, the Adult Literacy Resource Institute's homepages, and many other homebuying and instructional resources.

http://www.eslcafe.com
A great source for ESOL learners and teachers- everything from a graffiti wall to email lists for students, from on-line quizzes to help centers.

http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc
This international e-mail connection provides free service to teachers who want to share information and request help with specific classroom projects that involve email.

http://ericir.syr.edu/index.html
The U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC), a clearinghouse of publications, grant resources and classroom activities, provides one of the most extensive adult education bibliographic and publication-abstract listings in the country.