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Real Estate Professionals

REALTORS® and lenders play a significant role in creating and implementing employer assisted housing programs in their communities. Employers will rely on your expertise and participation to help them navigate the complicated world of home ownership, visit the Real Estate Professionals page to learn more.

Training

Training is the critical first step to bring an employer assisted housing program to your community.

Down Payment Assistance

As part of their employer assisted housing programs, many employers offer down payment assistance. In many communities, local housing non-profits also have funding resources for closing costs and additional down payment assistance options.

Non-Profit Partners

Non-profit housing counseling agencies are key to Wisconsin Housing Works and creating successful employer assisted housing programs. Knowledge of additional resources, an ability to administer grant funds, in addition to providing education, makes them an integral part of the employer assisted housing initiative.

Non-Profit Training

Any HUD approved housing counseling agency can become involved in Wisconsin Housing Works with this training.

Working With Employers

Trained housing counseling agencies can partner with trained lender and real estate professionals to provide your employer with a complete array of professional services to create and even administer the employer’s Wisconsin Housing Works program.

Employers

Increase your staff retention and decrease recruiting and training costs by assisting your employees in purchasing affordable, accessible and safe housing near the workplace through Wisconsin Housing Works.

Investing In  Your Workforce

Through the Wisconsin Housing Works initiative you can provide a home ownership incentive for your employees to feel even more connected and loyal to you, their employer.

Resources for Buyers

Wisconsin Housing Works has funding sources that can be layered together to make the most efficient housing transaction for the home buyer.

Working with Municipalities

In addition to the down payment resources that your housing counseling agencies may bring to the table to match or leverage your investment, your local municipality may also be willing to invest with you.

Local Government

Designing and implementing an employer assisted housing program through the Wisconsin Housing Works initiative helps your local employers reduce employee recruitment and retention costs while improving the quality of live for your residents.

Resources for Buyers

Wisconsin Housing Works has funding sources that can be layered together to make the most efficient housing transaction for the home buyer.

Investing In Your Community

As a local government you may be able to match or leverage employers' investment in assisted housing with additional resources.

Home Buyers

Wisconsin Housing Works is working to build teams of REALTORS®, lenders, housing counselors and local governments across the state to help employers just like yours develop Employer Assisted Housing programs to help people like you buy a home.

Employer Resources

Wisconsin Housing Works trained lender and real estate professionals to provide your employer to create and even administer the employer’s EAH program.

Home Buyer Resources

We provide valuable home buyer education and your local agency most likely administers a variety of local, state or federal down payment assistance funds that you may be eligible for.

Employer Participation

Your employer may not be aware or involved in an Employer Assisted Housing Program – you could be the initial contact to gain knowledge and take it back to your workplace leaders and encourage participation.

About

In many communities across Wisconsin, high-quality, affordable housing is not located near major employers.  Employer assisted housing programs help communities improve the quality of life for its workforce while helping local employers recruit and retain more employees.

Other Related Links

Organizational websites and support materials for employer assisted housing programs.

Wisconsin Housing Works Program

There are many successful employer assisted housing programs across Wisconsin. The chart featured on the program page lists the participating employers, the employee benefit offered and the corporate contact.

Wisconsin Housing Works Professionals

Many parts of the state already have trained Wisconsin Housing Works Professionals – REALTORS®, lenders and housing counseling agencies who are ready to help. Use this page to view a list of currently trained Wisconsin Housing Professionals.