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D.C. aims to make housing down payments more affordable for lower-income families

by Lily Jamali

Aug 24, 2022

The city is doubling the amount of low-interest loans that first-time homeowners can qualify for in its Home Purchase Assistance Program, but analysts say that only addresses part of the problem.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced this week that first-time homebuyers could qualify for as much as $202,000 in assistance in the form of low-interest loans.

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Myths around homebuying: the dreaded 20 percent and millennial apathy

by Jana Kasperkevic

Aug 11, 2017

Don’t give up on that dream of a white picket fence just yet.

Juan Carlos Correa (L) , a prospective home buyer is shown a short sale home by Denise Madan, a Real Estate agent with Re/Max, as he shops for a house on April 22, 2014 in Coral Gables, Florida

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