Youngstown agencies receive fed funding to fight foreclosures

YOUNGSTOWN — Family Service Agency and the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority will share a $93,377 federal grant to counsel Mahoning County residents facing foreclosure.

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Avon, announced the grant Thursday from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s housing counseling program.

“Amid news of assembly-line foreclosures, we have not lost sight of the need to provide affordable housing to Ohio residents,” Brown said. “These HUD housing counseling funds will help more homeowners modify their mortgages and stay in their homes. Housing counseling is one of the best ways to prevent the devastating effects that foreclosures have on families and communities.”

Family Service Agency is a HUD-approved low-income affordable housing organization. The YMHA is an agency that provides affordable housing to low- to moderate-income county residents.