Wellington uses federal grant to help homeowners get keys to foreclosed homes [South Florida]

Wellington uses federal grant to help homeowners get keys to foreclosed homes [South Florida]

Despite steep drops in real estate prices and the nation’s recent first-time homebuyer incentives, Danillia Williams never thought she could purchase a place of her own.

That didn’t feel tragic to the 42-year-old single mother, but she certainly thought it would be worthwhile to hunker down permanently in Wellington, where she’s rented a house for years.

A co-worker and the village’s Safe Neighborhoods office led her toward that possibility.

Early this year Wellington joined a national program that gives state and local governments money to buy and fix up abandoned and foreclosed homes, in order to sell them to low- and moderate-income buyers.