Beginning October 27, 2014, The Foreclosure Help Collaborative Silicon Valley will provide coordinated foreclosure prevention services to families facing foreclosure and other related housing issues throughout the County of Santa Clara in place of the ForeclosureHelp Center.
The Foreclosure Help Collaborative Silicon Valley can be reached at (408) 909-HOME or at firstname.lastname@example.org.
The Collaborative is composed of the same partners that supported the ForeclosureHelp Center, including four HUD housing counseling agencies; Asian, Inc., Neighborhood Housing Services Silicon Valley, Project Sentinel and SurePath Financial Solutions, as well as The Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, and Santa Clara County Association of Realtors.
The ForeclosureHelp Center was established in 2009 in response to the foreclosure crisis that heavily impacted our community. In 2012, Housing Trust Silicon Valley assumed the leadership role of the ForeclosureHelpSCC Consortium, and the management and operation of the ForeclosureHelp Center. The Center was operated in partnership with the partners listed above. Nearly 10,000 residents in 3,400 local households have received coordinated foreclosure prevention and housing legal services from the ForeclosureHelp Center.
Foreclosure rates in California and the County of Santa Clara have now fallen to the lowest level since 2005, prior to the start of the looming foreclosure crisis. As a result of the decrease in foreclosure activity and program funding, the ForeclosureHelp Center has ceased operations effective October 27, 2014.
However, on any given day in the County of Santa Clara, there are still nearly 1,200 households who remain in foreclosure or are at the risk of foreclosure. Many of these households are facing complex issues such as prior modification agreements that are expiring.
The new Collaborative will ensure that these households have continued access to the resources they need to preserve their homeownership. Housing Trust Silicon Valley would like to thank its service partners as well as the cities of San Jose and Sunnyvale, and the Santa Clara County Association of Realtors, for funding the project.