The Housing Trust Fund of Santa Barbara County is pleased to announce that it will launch a $840,000 Workforce Homebuyer Down Payment Loan Program at a public information workhop on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Shepard Hall at the Santa Maria Library at 421 South McClelland Street, Santa Maria.

The program provides 30-year deferred down payment loans to assist local working low-income households in purchasing a home in the community where they work.

For more information you may email, j.mcgovern@sbhousingtrust.org or visit the Housing Trust Fund of Santa Barbara website at, www.sbhousingtrust.org.