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Join the Weekly Home Check - Receive weekly emails of home maintenance prompts. Let’s reduce the risk of costly repairs and take the hassle out of home maintenance, one week at a time.

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Content added April 9, 2025

The 2025 Base Year Application period is now open, from April 1 through June 30.
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Claire L. Lower
Administrative Coordinator
Boone County Human Resources
613 E. Ash St.
Columbia, MO 65201
573-448-7046

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Content added Jan. 10, 2025

A website which provides information on connecting with organizations that assist with the following:

Affordable Places to Live
Disaster Relief
Homelessness
Homeownership
Housing Quality & Improved Living Conditions
Rent Relief and Eviction Resources
Report Housing Discrimination
Speak to a Housing Counselor

Crisis Hotline numbers

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Content updated July 15, 2024

CHA provides housing assistance to over 1,900 families in Columbia and Boone County. Families pay 30% of their adjusted household income for rent. Multiple apartment complexes are listed.

201 Switzler Street
Columbia, MO
573-443-2556

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Content updated Oct. 14, 2024

The MO Department of Mental Health has a website with housing resources.

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Content updated Sept. 25, 2023

The Missouri Human Rights Act makes it illegal to discriminate in any aspect of housing because of an individual’s race, color, religion national origin, ancestry, sex, familial status (children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children un the age of 18), or disability.

421 East Dunlin Street
P.O. Box 1129
Jefferson City, MO 65201
573-751-3325
Toll-free Discrimination Complaint Hotline: 877-781-4236
TDD/TTY: 800-735-2966
Relay Missouri: 711

Currently available HCV property lists.

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Content updated Sept. 23, 2024

The Family Support Division is a state-administered agency responsible by law for administration of the programs and services. The Family Support Division (FSD) can help you or your family with food stamps, health care, childcare, child support, and other needs. Online applications available on their website.

601 Business Loop 70 W, Ste 272
Columbia, MO 65203
1-855-373-4636

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Single Family Housing Direct Home Loans

Content updated May 28, 2024
Program assists low- and very-low-income applicants obtain decent, safe and sanitary housing in eligible rural areas by providing payment assistance to increase an applicant’s repayment ability. Payment assistance is a type of subsidy that reduces the mortgage payment for a short time. The amount of assistance is determined by the adjusted family income.

573-876-0990
Email: RD.MO.QUESTIONS@mo.usda.gov

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First-time homebuyers and qualified veterans

Content updated Aug. 12, 2024

The First Place Loan program gives first-time homebuyers and qualified veterans the edge they need to purchase a home.

Low-to-moderate income home buyers

Content updated June 10, 2024
The CCLT is a non-profit corporation formed by the City of Columbia with the primary duties of creating and stewarding permanently affordable housing. The widening gap between housing costs and household median income makes home ownership increasingly less affordable. The CCLT is working to address this by creating additional home-ownership opportunities for lower income Columbia households and permanently protecting these investments for future generations.

11 N. 7th Street
Columbia, MO 65201
573-874-6321
Email: housingprograms@como.gov

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Applicants must be “first time home buyers” who meet the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) income guidelines.

Content updated June 10, 2024
The purpose of the Homeownership Assistance Program is to make homeownership more affordable for low-to-moderate income households through down payment and/or closing cost assistance to qualified households purchasing a home within the City Limits of Columbia. Applications will only be considered when qualified buyers with properties are under contract. Applicants must be “first time home buyers” who meet the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) income guidelines.

1 N. 7th Street
Columbia, MO 65201
573-874-7288 (TTY: 1-800-MOR-ELAY)
Email: housingprograms@como.gov

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Content updated May 28, 2024

The Missouri Property Tax Credit Claim is a program that allows some senior citizen and all disabled individuals who have paid personal property tax through home ownership or rent to apply for credit based on the amount they payed toward that tax.

Email: PropertyTaxCredit@dor.mo.gov

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