BOSTON – May 15, 2014 – The Community Builders, Inc., developer of 225 Centre, today announced the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), a non-profit homeownership and advocacy organization, as the first commercial tenant at the 225 Centre development in Jamaica Plain’s Jackson Square.  NACA, with its corporate office based in the Jamaica Plain/Roxbury neighborhood, is the largest HUD certified housing organization in the country with forty offices nationwide and rapidly expanding. 

NACA was the first organization to identify and address predatory lending crisis with the exposure of the second mortgage scam in Dorchester in the 1980s.   In fact NACA coined the term “Predatory Lending.”  NACA now has $13 Billion in the best mortgage in America to lend nationwide on the following incredible terms: no downpayment, no closing costs, no fees, at a below market fixed rate and borrowers do not need perfect credit. NACA is a high profile organization that has been profiled in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN and many others for its homeownership for its homeownership programs, and successful and aggressive campaigns against Fleet, Ford, Chase and many others.  

“This is a time of exciting growth and investment at 225 Centre and throughout Jackson Square,” said Bart Mitchell, TCB president and CEO. “We look forward to welcoming NACA staff to this vibrant neighborhood.”

“We are delighted to keep NACA and our employees in the Jamaica Plain/Roxbury community,” said Bruce Marks, NACA president and CEO. “We are at home with the many low and moderate income residents.  225 Centre will be our corporate headquarters as we carry out our mission of fighting for working people by our aggressive advocacy and providing the best mortgage for working people in the United States.”

225 Centre has also leased 100 percent of the 103 occupied apartments built for market rate, moderate income and low income residents. Located next to the Jackson Square MBTA station, the 225 Centre development was recently established as a Zip Car vehicle sharing site and is steps away from a Hubway bicycle sharing station. The environmentally friendly development is also home to 250 solar energy panels.

NACA has approximately 500 employs and is expected to relocate in June 2014.

关于NACA (NACA.com) NACA, Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, is the largest HUD certified counseling agency.  NACA was established in Boston almost 30 years ago and now has more than two million members nationwide.  NACA is the largest and most effective organization in modifying mortgages and provides the best mortgage in the country.  NACA has been highlighted in the national news and its CEO Bruce Marks was named Bostonian of the Year for 2007 because of his work in getting the major lenders and servicers to modify home loans often the same day through the extraordinary NACA American Dream Events.  See 年度波士顿人。  He has also testified in congress on numerous occasions including on September 12, 2000, being one of the only people to sound the alarm of the pending mortgage crisis.  For more information go to www.naca.com