When first-time homebuyers Angel Collins and her husband, Keith Brophy, moved with their two daughters to Alexandria from New Orleans after Katrina in 2006, they didn’t have the savings for a down payment to buy a new house. People told them they didn’t need a down payment — but they didn’t believe it.

“We didn’t see how that was a good thing,” Collins said.

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