Directory - Housing

Organization: Beacon House YMCA
Address: 821 Schuylkill Ave. Reading, PA 19601
Address: 631 Washington Street Reading, PA 19601
Phone #: 610-378-4782
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URL: http://www.ymca-berkscounty.org/Programs/Beacon_House.htm
Mission statement: Transitional housing and support services to assist homeless families. Please note that BEACON HOUSE does not provide emergency housing. The application process takes approximately two months for most applicants to complete.

Program: BCAP Budget Center
Address: 247 North 5th Street Reading, PA 19603
Phone #: 610-375-7866
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Mission statement: We help families stay in their home during temporary financial hardship. If you qualify, we help pay your rent or mortgage. We also offer pre-purchase counseling.

Organization: Berks Community Action Program - BCAP
Address: 247 N. 5th St. Reading, PA 19601
Phone #: 610-375-7866
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URL: http://www.co.berks.pa.us/berks/cwp/view.asp?a=1164&q=443971
Mission statement: This component provides payments for rent, mortgage arrearage for home and trailer owners, rental costs for trailers and trailer lots, security deposits, and utilities to prevent and/or end homelessness or near homelessness by maintaining individuals and families in their own residences.

Organization: Berks County Housing Authority
Address: 1803 Butter Lane Reading, PA 19606-1100
Phone #: 610-376-2422
Contact person: Richard Delp
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URL: www.berksha.org
Mission statement: Assistance in obtaining low-income housing.

Organization: Boscov: Our City Reading
Address: 4500 Perkiomen Blv. Reading, PA 19606
Phone #: 610-779-2000
Contact person: Carrie Miller
E-mail: carriemiller@boscovs.com
URL: www.ourcityreading.org
Mission statement: To create pride and stability through home ownership to Reading's first time home buyers. We fully restore, market, and sell houses in all areas of the city of Reading. We assist families to become first time homebuyers and our banking partners provided low interest loans, at rates below standard residential housing mortgage rates.

Organization: eFanniemae
URL: www.eFannieMae.com
Mission statement: Community HomeChoice, an option under MyCommunityMortgage, is designed to meet the mortgage needs of low- to moderate-income borrowers with disabilities or those who have a family member with a disability. It offers extra flexibilities for borrower income and qualifying ratios, and allows a non-occupying co-borrower.

Organization: Grassroots Shelter Directory
URL: http://apps.grassroots.org/shelter_links

Organization: Habitat for Humanity Reading-Berks
Address: 336 South 18th Street Reading, PA 19602
Phone #: (610) 373-3439
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E-mail: info@rbhabitat.org
URL: www.rbhabitat.org/about.html
Mission statement: Reading-Berks Habitat for Humanity is a 501(c)(3) ecumenical Christian charitable organization which exists to create affordable homeownership opportunities with and for low-income families. Families who purchase Habitat for Humanity homes must first contribute 400 hours construction labor on a Habitat home, a contribution we call “sweat-equity.”

Organization: Hope Rescue Mission
Address: 6th and Oley Reading, PA 19601
Phone #: 610-375-4224
Phone #: 610-372-8433
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Mission statement: Lodging and food in connection with a light work program.

Organization: Neighborhood Housing Services of Reading
Address: 213 North Fifth Street Suite 1030 Reading, PA 19601
Phone #: 610-372-8433
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URL: www.nhsreading.org
Mission statement: To facilitate and provide 'affordable housing' programs and initiatives that will expand homeownership opportunities for all people of Berks County, especially low to moderate income families, and will contribute to the revitalization of our neighborhoods and the greater community.

Organization: Opportunity House: Housing Program
Address: 430 N. 2nd Street Reading, PA 19601
Phone #: 610-374-4696
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URL: www.opphouse.org/housing.asp
Mission statement: Recognizing that applying new skills learned at the shelter is difficult to do for some adults and families while living in an open dormitory, Opportunity House created two housing programs to meet specific needs. Transitional housing, permanent housing, and emergency shelter.

Organization: Pennsylvania Affordable Apartment Locator
URL: www.phfa.org/pal
Mission statement: The Apartment Locator was developed by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency as a tool to link consumers to affordable housing options throughout the Commonwealth. It is intended to be an aid for consumers who are searching for affordable apartments and for property managers and developers who wish to market their affordable vacant units.

Organization: Pennsylvania Homeless Shelters
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URL: www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/pennsylvania.html
Mission Statement: Complete list of Pennsylvania Shelters. Many are emergency shelters and are good contacts for situations such as hurricanes in Pennsylvania. With the recent increase of Foreclosures in Pennsylvania, many of these shelters now have waiting lists. Please call before going to them. Many waiting lists are very long.

Organization: PRIDE (Program to Rehabilitate, Improve and Develop the Environs) in Reading
Address: 201 W Wyomissing Blvd. West Lawn, PA 19609
Phone #: 610-655-6000
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Mission statement: Offer federal assistance to city homeowners meeting certain eligibility requirements.

Organization: Reading Housing Authority
Address: 400 Hancock Blv. Reading, PA 19611
Phone #: 610-372-3933
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URL: www.berksha.org
Mission statement: Assistance in obtaining low-income housing for the elderly and disabled. Assistance for the first time home buyer.