Otis Bartlett & Sylvester Herring 
Housing Counseling [PDF ebook] 
Types, Funding and Significance

The term "housing counseling" refers to a wide variety of educational activities geared toward homebuyers, homeowners, renters, senior citizens, or other populations with particular housing goals. Some potential topics of housing counseling include pre-purchase counseling for potential homebuyers; post-purchase counseling on subjects such as budgeting or home maintenance and foreclosure prevention. This book describes the housing counseling industry in general, with a focus on HUD’s processes for certifying housing counseling agencies and distributing housing counseling funding.