Housing Opportunity Program
Home From Work ™
Homeownership is out of reach for a large portion of the workforce. Teachers, emergency personnel, retail clerks, hospitality staff and office employees often cannot afford to live near their places of work or are uninformed about the range of homeownership options available to them. In addition, some businesses face recruitment and retention challenges including high turnover rates, labor shortages and chronic absenteeism.
The Home From Work™ program encourages and promotes employer-assisted housing (EAH) which is housing benefits employers can offer to help strengthen their employees' potential to purchase their own homes. EAH strengthens communities and empowers its workforce.
The Home From Work™ program encourages state and local REALTOR® Associations and REALTORS® to become advocates for expanding housing opportunities.
The main focus of the Home From Work™ program is the Home From Work™ class which provides information and tools so REALTORS® can reach out to local employers to help them establish employer-assisted housing benefit programs.
Get Involved
• Attend a Home From Work Class
• Sponsor a Home From Work Class
• Become a Home From Work Certified Instructor
• If your local or state REALTOR® association has a Home From Work or similar program, please let us know. We are looking to highlight what associations are doing to promote EAH.
Home From Work Benefits for REALTORS
- Expand your client base
- Increase revenue
- Gain referrals
- Increase your name recognition
- Enhance your professionalism
- Strengthen your community
Benefits for REALTOR® Associations
- Provide a new professional skill set
- Offer a new continuing education credit course
- Improve your association image among community leaders and elected officials
- Give members tools to increase business and enhance the community
Benefits for Employers
- Strengthen employee recruitment
- Improve employee retention
- Revitalize the local economy
- Provides a measureable return on investment in employee productivity
- Enhance employee-employer relationships
- Reduce commuting for your employees
- Gain recognition in your community as an employee-friendly business.
Benefits to the Community
- Increase local jobs
- Increase tax base
- Stabilize the community
- Offer incentives for new businesses to move to your community
Reduce commuting
♦ "Unique Opportunity to Assist Buyers" - Home From Work is described in the June 2007 issue of Today's Buyer's Rep, (PDF: 285K).
For more information, call Holly Moskerintz at 202-383-1157 or e-mail homefromwork@realtors.org
