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Causes: Homeless & Housing, Housing Support
Mission: To provide homebuyer education throughout the state of idaho to a diversified market of low and moderate income prospective homebuyers in both the urban and rural areas including idaho's minority populations.
Programs: For calendar year 2014 idaho partners for home buyer education, inc. (iphbe) and ihfa graduated 3,597 prospective homebuyers. 3,087 were educated through the online program and the remaining 510 were educated through the live classes which were held at training host locations across the state. From january to june 2014 iphbe, inc. Reimbursed regional training hosts $30 per student for the expenses incurred in conducting the classes as well as $50 to $150 for a facility rental fee for each class held. Ihfa had a hud grant for the 2013 fiscal year which ran from 10/1/2012-9/30/2013, iphbe acted as the administrator for this grant and secured an extension that ran through 6/30/14.
one-on-one counseling - iphbe, inc. Was the sub grantee/administrator of 3 major housing counseling grants during 2014. One was the hud housing counseling grant which funded homebuyer education and the following types of counseling: rental, default, post-purchase, pre-purchase, reverse mortgage, and homeless prevention. Additionally, iphbe, inc. Was the administrator for rounds 6 and 7 and 8 of a grant from neighbor works america through the national foreclosure mitigation counseling program. These funds were strictly to be used for foreclosure mitigation counseling. To conduct all of this one-on-one counseling the organization partnered with non-profit entities across the state and provided funding to them as sub-grantees/affiliates for the grants. The third grant which iphbe, inc. Administrated during calendar year 2014 was the making homes affordable grant through neighbor works america. This funding was for foreclosure mitigation counseling which was specific to the making homes affordable program.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.