Over a dozen Lao elders came to participate in our Foreclosure Workshop.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved the nation’s first network of housing counseling organizations dedicated to serving Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders facing foreclosures or who need general housing counseling.
The National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (CAPACD), is now an intermediary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and will support a national network of nonprofits in 10 states, providing services in more than ten AAPI languages and communities, including the Lao Assistance Center.
The Lao Assistance Center is particularly working to increase awareness of issues of Loan Scams and predatory lending and a more concrete awareness of the foreclosure process to assist Lao in a culturally relevant manner, in the interactive small group format and within the Lao language, allowing time for questions and answers and to establish ideas for long-term solutions.
Overall, participants were very interested in the subject. Many wanted to pass the information on to nieces, nephews who owned homes. They asked for a workshop on homeownership in May. Most came from across Minneapolis and Hennepin County, learning about it through flyers, phone calls and our contact database. It was a little cramped so future meetings may be organized in the multipurpose room or the meeting room at the Harrison Neighborhood Association.
The Lao Assistance Center thanks everyone who came, and for more information you can e-mail Pany Siharath at pany@laocenter.org or Linda Homsombath at lindah@laocenter.org you can also call (612) 374-4967
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