Down Payment Assistance

A NEW Approach in Helping You Buy a Home

Matched Savings Program
NeighborWorks® Columbus provides Individual
Development Accounts to First Time Homebuyers in Columbus, Georgia.

  • Individual Development Accounts are a matched savings program where NeighborWorks® Columbus will provide a 4 to 1 match on monies saved up to $1000.
  • The matching funds must be used as a down payment assistance toward the purchase of a participant’s first home.
  • The grant to support NeighborWorks® Columbus matched savings program was provided by funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Asset for Independence Program.
  • The grant will provide up to $4,000 in down payment assistance to eligible participants.  Homeowner education to help you become a successful homeowner
  • Eligibility is based on income and household size.


























Employer-Assisted Housing Program 

EAH Program at-a-glance


The EAH (Employer-Assisted Housing) is a program to promote homeownership opportunities and enhance community stability. NeighborWorks® Columbus designed a program that provides grants to employees to use toward the purchase of a first home and encourages those purchases in targeted neighborhoods by offering additional grant money. The partnering company provides down payment and closing cost assistance in the form of “no strings attached” grants, as well as homeownership and financial counseling.


Program Details


• Employees purchasing their first 
  homes can receive “no strings
  attached” grants of $1,000, which do
  not have to be repaid.
• If employees decide to purchase
   homes in one of NeighborWorks®
   Columbus four targeted, transitional
   neighborhoods in Columbus, the
   grants are increased to $5,000.
• The EAH program is restricted to first-
   time homebuyers.
• Financial education and counseling 
  are required for all employees who 
  participate.

Employee Eligibility

• All employees who will be first-time
  homebuyers are eligible to participate
  in the program.

Current Partners


• Aflac, headquartered in Columbus,
  Georgia offers the EAH program and
  East Alabama Medical Center,
  located in Opelika, Alabama offers
  EAH Cornerstone down payment
  assistance program.
• If your corporation is interested in
  becoming a partner, please call 
  Melanie Faison, Executive Vice  
  President HomeOwnership Center at
  (706) 324-4663.