Partners & Collaborators - Home Ownership Program

The RDI Home Ownership Program helps eligible Franklin County Residents own a newly constructed or newly renovated home. RDI provides assistance in obtaining financing from federal, state, and local sources.

Currently, the Home Ownership Program is building the Wisdom Way Solar Village located near the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Greenfield, MA. A large number of organizations, listed below, have partnered with RDI for this exciting project.

RDI Partners:

Mortgage Lenders

• Franklin County Regional Housing & Redevelopment Authority

• The Housing Assistance Council (HAC)

• Massachusetts Affordable Housing Trust Fund

• Massachusetts Department of Housing & Community Development (DHCD) HOME Program

• Massachusetts Community Based Housing

• U. S. Department of Energy - Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

Solar Energy Technologies Program

Building America Program

• Massachusetts Technology Collaborative

• HAP, Inc.

• Town of Greenfield Community Development Block Grant

• The Home Depot Foundation

• Western Massachusetts Electric Company

• Massachusetts New Homes with Energy Star

• TDBankNorth Foundation

• Enterprise Green Communities

• The Life Initiative

• CEDAC

• National Grid

Morgage Lenders:

RDI has worked with a number of mortgage lenders in assisting 1st time homebuyers:

• Bank of America
• Bank of Western Massachusetts
• Florence Savings Bank
• Freedom Credit Union
• Greenfield Cooperative Bank
• Greenfield Savings Bank
• TDBankNorth
• Sovereign Bank
• UMass Five College Federal Credit Union
• United States Department of Agriculture/Rural Development