HarborOne’s ‘Get The LeadOut’ Loan Lauded

BROCKTON, Mass. - (05/30/06) – HarborOne CU’s specialloan for lead paint abatement received a special citation last weekduring the MassHousing agency’s 10th annual Home OwnershipAwards ceremony. The credit union made a total of 59 low-interest‘Get the Lead Out’ loans in 2005 for a total of$926,000 to help low- and moderate-income homeowners remove leadpaint from their homes. That’s almost a quarter of all thespecial lead paint loans made in the state. Since the program wascreated in 1997 there have been a total of 3,382 loans made for$61.4 million.