Yes You Can Homeownership Program

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Funding: Program provides mentoring, guidance, and connections to realtors and lenders — not direct grants or loans.OtherScope: Local/Regionalstate

Updated: Dec 1, 2025

Summary

LEAP Housing’s Yes You Can Homeownership Program is a free, mentorship style service that walks Boise area renters and aspiring buyers through the entire home purchase process, connecting them to education, trusted lenders, and available down payment assistance programs

Benefits

Homebuyer educationHomeownership assistance

Who Can Apply

Individual

Eligible Locations

Boise / Treasure Valley region, Idaho.

Eligibility

First time and aspiring homebuyers in the Boise area, including households with lower incomes, limited savings, lower credit scores, or language barriers who are willing to work through education, counseling, and a personalized action plan

Full Description

The Yes You Can Homeownership Program from LEAP Housing is designed for households who are ready or almost ready to buy but face barriers such as limited savings, lower credit scores, complex life circumstances, or language and cultural hurdles. Instead of providing a single grant product, Yes You Can offers a highly personalized roadmap to homeownership, pairing each participant with staff who develop a step by step plan and move at the pace that fits the client’s situation. The program emphasizes education and support, connecting buyers to homebuyer education resources developed by adult learning specialists, credit counseling and debt reduction services, and social service navigators who can help address non housing barriers. Yes You Can also leverages LEAP’s relationships with vetted real estate agents and lending partners to ensure clients are working with professionals who understand affordable homeownership tools, including local and statewide down payment assistance programs. The service is multilingual and works with interpreters and community organizations that serve immigrants, refugees, and new Americans, making the process more inclusive for households who might otherwise be shut out of traditional channels. While the site does not specify a fixed dollar amount of assistance, the program’s value comes from pairing buyers with grants, flexible mortgage products, and support so they can successfully qualify for a loan and close on a safe, affordable home in the Boise area.

Verification & Details

Complexity: Easy

Confidence: 90%

Status: Open

Source: leaphousing.org

Based on LEAP Housing Yes You Can program description; it is an educational & support service rather than a grant/loan product.

Official source → leaphousing.org

Apply on official siteUpdated Dec 1, 2025

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