Oklahoma City
Resident and First Mortgage Company Employee Recognized by Oklahoma
Housing Finance Agency with Apex Award
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City resident and First Mortgage Company
employee Valenthia Doolin received an Apex Award from Oklahoma
Housing Finance Agency for contributions made in affordable housing
from January to December 2006. Doolin received an Apex Award under
the category of Friend of Affordable Housing. Presented July 19 at
OHFA’s Board of Trustees meeting in Oklahoma City, the annual Apex
Awards recognize people and organizations in Oklahoma committed to
affordable housing.
As an assistant vice president for First Mortgage Company, Doolin
led her company’s initiative to increase the homeownership rate of
African Americans in Oklahoma, as well as others underserved by the
mortgage industry. In the past four years, she has helped over 200
families achieve their goal of homeownership. Doolin extends her
role beyond a traditional loan officer by teaching homebuyer
education classes, organizing homeownership fairs, and working to
diminish predatory lending.
Other Apex Award recipients and their award categories were:
Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma – Innovative Affordable Housing
Initiative
Oklahoma Equity Fund – Friend of Affordable Housing
Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City – Community Development
Temple Gardens Senior Apartments, Oklahoma City – Elderly Housing
United Community Action Program, Inc., Pawnee – Rural Housing
Legacy Park Apartments, Shawnee – Rental Housing
Little Dixie Community Action Agency, Hugo – Elderly Housing, Home
Ownership and Management of Affordable Housing
Indian Springs Apartments, Broken Arrow – Management of Affordable
Housing
Bell Management, Inc., Joplin, Mo. – Management of Affordable
Housing
Red-Wood Development, Joplin, Mo. – Elderly Housing
As Oklahoma’s largest provider of affordable housing, OHFA offers 11
housing programs ranging from “OHFA Advantage” for home ownership to
housing development and rental assistance. For more information
about OHFA and its programs and services, visit
www.ohfa.org.
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