Homeowner Protection Program – Anchor Partner
The Homeowner Protection Program (HOPP) is administered by the NYS Office of the Attorney General and provides funding to 89 non-profit housing counseling and legal services organizations. These organizations provide direct assistance to homeowners in default and foreclosure. HOPP ensures housing counseling and legal services are available to homeowners in every county of New York State.
HOPP grantees provide a range of services to help stabilize homeownership including financial counseling, negotiating loan modification and other workout options with mortgage servicers, representing homeowners in New York State’s mandatory settlement conferences, redressing deed theft and mortgage fraud scams, assisting homeowners facing tax foreclosures, and helping families understand the foreclosure process and find alternative housing when the home is no longer affordable.
Empire Justice Center is a HOPP Anchor Partner, along with the Center for New York City Neighborhoods. We oversee the grantees located in five regions of the state: Central, Hudson Valley, Long Island, Northeast, Southern Tier and Western New York. The Center for New York City Neighborhoods is the HOPP Anchor Partner overseeing grants to agencies in NYC. We also provide training, technical assistance and support to grantees statewide as the Anchor Partner.
HOPP Portal*
- Annual Data
- Training Schedule and Signups
- Recordings of Past Trainings
- HOPP Documents
- HOPP Funding Campaigns
- HOPP Resources
*Password protected
For more information on HOPP Funding visit: https://fundhopp.org/
Building Equity Initiative
Foreclosure Prevention Direct Services
Our Foreclosure Prevention Team provides high quality foreclosure prevention legal services with the goal of helping homeowners experiencing foreclosure understand the process and to secure the best possible outcome for them.
Our primary goals are to help homeowners experiencing foreclosure understand the process and to secure the best possible outcome for them. This often means saving the person’s home, for the good of themselves, their families, and their neighborhoods, but it can also mean working to secure a deed in lieu of foreclosure to spare their credit score and eliminate their housing debt, connecting them with our partners at another legal services agency to help them sell their home, or ensuring they recoup surplus funds resulting from the sale of their foreclosed property. We also seek to identify trends and patterns in the experiences of both our clients and those of our partners to evaluate larger-scale, systemic solutions to the problems and challenges they face.
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Contact
For more information, contact our Foreclosure Prevention Team
(585) 454-4060, ext. 5903 or
Jihan Abdurrafi at jabdurrafi@empirejustice.org
Foreclosure Prevention Team
Jihan Abdurrafi
Jim Dukette
Kevin Purcell
Samuel Robinson
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Training Videos
HOPP training videos are only in our HOPP Portal.
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Presenters:
Christopher D’Angelo (OAG)
Franklin Romero (OAG)
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This presentation, recorded on 6/28/2023, details how to effectively provide services to and advocate for clients who are Limited English Proficient (LEP). Attendees will learn about the concept of Language...
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This presentation, previously recorded on June 14, 2023, gives viewers an understanding of public benefits available to low income homeowners. This program will provide an overview of what foreclosure prevention...
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This presentation was recorded 1/13/2023 In this presentation we look at the end stages of foreclosure cases. Looking at the timeline for sales, we examine order of reference to judgment...
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This presentation was recorded 1/13/2023. Reverse mortgages can be confusing. In this presentation we’ll give a general overview of a reverse mortgage and how they operate. Then we will look...
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This presentation was recorded 1/13/2023 In this training presentation, we will review a range of loss mitigation tools such as Government Sponsored Enterprise (GSE’s) like Freddie and Fannie, FHA and...
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