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Chickasaw Nation's Chuka Chukmasi Home Loan Program

Author
The Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous Governance and Development
Year

Created in 1998 to increase home ownership among Chickasaw citizens and other Native Americans in Oklahoma, the Chuka Chukmasi ("beautiful home") Home Loan Program is a secondary market home loan program that has helped more than 200 families realize the dream of home ownership. Collaborating with investor and lender partners, the Program provides pre-home ownership education, credit and loan counseling, and down payment and closing cost assistance.

home loans
home ownership
home ownership education
Native Nations
Chickasaw Nation
Resource Type
Honoring Nations Reports
Topics
Economic and Community Development
Health and Social Services
Useful Links
NNI "Rebuilding Native Nations" Online Course: Nation Owned Enterprises
NNI "Rebuilding Native Nations" Online Course: Administration
Citation

"Chuka Chukmasi Home Loan Program". Honoring Nations: 2003 Honoree. The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2004. Report.

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