Working with neighborhood residents, nonprofit groups and businesses, HCD provides affordable home ownership and rental opportunities through the preservation and rehabilitation of existing structures and the construction of new housing. 

Greensboro Affordable Home Loan Initiative (GAHLI)

GAHLI is a program that provides homebuyer counseling, education, and financial assistance to low and moderate income first-time Greensboro homebuyers.

Homeowner Housing Rehabilitation Program

The Homeowner Housing Rehabilitation Program helps low and moderate income homeowners fix their homes. The program takes care of all major housing code and structural problems, making your home safe and comfortable for many years. Loans are available through this program.

Lead Safe Housing Program

The purpose of the Lead Safe Housing Program is to remove lead-based paint hazards that pose an imminent health threat in homes built prior to 1978 and to protect young children from lead poisoning. Homeowners and rental property owners may be eligible for program assistance. Grants are available through this program.

Rental Housing Improvement Program (RHIP)

RHIP offers low-interest, deferred loans to rehabilitate rental property (seven units or less). The program provides repairs for purchase/rehab project assistance for 25 percent of total redevelopment costs and rehab project assistance for 50 percent of rehab costs.

Affordable Housing Development

Affordable housing development opportunities are available through Requests for Proposals and the Redevelopment Commission.

Greensboro Housing Development Partnership

The Greensboro Housing Development Partnership, Inc., a nonprofit housing organization jointly established by the City of Greensboro and the Greensboro Housing Authority, is the parent agency of the Greensboro Housing Counseling Service and for the administration of the Affordable Home Loan Program.

Homelessness Prevention Assistance

The City of Greensboro does not provide direct assistance to individuals. Persons in need of assistance are encouraged to call the Greensboro Housing Coalition's Housing Hotline at (336) 691-9521. The City of Greensboro does provide partial funding to qualified non-profit agencies through an annual RFP process.