Center for NYC Neighborhoods

We promote and protect affordable homeownership for middle- and working-class families in New York.

We provide services like mortgage help, foreclosure prevention, coastal community impact understanding, scam prevention, and assistance with home rehabs and retrofits. We specialize in housing counseling, legal services, recovery and resiliency, affordable homeownership, and sustainability initiatives, including energy sustainability programs. We also manage loan-related initiatives such as manual mortgage underwriting, loan origination, processing, packaging, and closing operations for various residential mortgage loan programs.

Leaders from New York City and private foundations established us in 2008 to address the foreclosure crisis during the Great Recession. We are a HUD-approved counseling group, a licensed mortgage banker in New York State, a Certified Community Development Financial Institution, and a Freddie Mac Borrower Help Center in New York State.

Our mission is to promote and protect affordable homeownership in New York, enabling middle- and working-class families to build strong, thriving communities.

Our values include:

• Fostering equality through affordable homeownership.
• Working collaboratively with communities.
• Recognizing the central role of neighborhoods in New York.
• Engaging in strategic partnerships.

We are a non-profit organization with 51 to 200 employees. Our employees work in a collaborative, respectful environment, united by a shared mission to assist homeowners across the state.

We provide staff with resources and training in management and community development to support their growth as leaders. We encourage work-life balance and adopt new technologies and methods, like human-centered web design and housing counseling for storm recovery. We also have a ‘Fun Committee’ to integrate levity into working hours.

New hires must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and provide proof of vaccination upon request. We participate in the Section 3 program, which helps provide training, employment, and contracting opportunities to low- and very low-income individuals, especially those receiving government housing assistance, and to businesses that support these communities.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package and competitive salaries. Many roles are hybrid, combining remote and in-office work for candidates within commuting distance of our office.