Mission & Goals

Housing Information, a Consumer Action sister site, is a resource designed to give consumers and community-based agencies serving consumers access to multilingual educational resources promoting intelligent and cost-effective home-buying decisions. In designing the project, Consumer Action has emphasized factually correct and unbiased information and tips to help consumers:

• Prepare for homeownership
• Understand the housing market
• Compare necessary home-buying services, and
• Make wise choices in financing and home-buying services

Key areas of content for the Housing Information site include:

• Homebuyer readiness
• Purchasing and mortgage financing decisions
• Choosing a real estate professional
• Home and property inspections
• Title insurance in home buying
• Selection and purchase of homeowner’s insurance
• Money management and credit education
• Foreclosure avoidance
• Protection of home equity