{"id":9043,"date":"2017-02-28T13:08:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T18:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/?p=9043"},"modified":"2017-02-28T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T18:08:38","slug":"maryland-smartbuy-featured-on-nbc-nightly-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2017\/02\/28\/maryland-smartbuy-featured-on-nbc-nightly-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland SmartBuy Featured on NBC Nightly News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/16905022_1615340225160322_5589442123522341707_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9045\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/16905022_1615340225160322_5589442123522341707_o-300x225.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/16905022_1615340225160322_5589442123522341707_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/16905022_1615340225160322_5589442123522341707_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/16905022_1615340225160322_5589442123522341707_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/16905022_1615340225160322_5589442123522341707_o.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/17015872_1615340075160337_7904709232463513683_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9046 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/17015872_1615340075160337_7904709232463513683_o-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/17015872_1615340075160337_7904709232463513683_o-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/17015872_1615340075160337_7904709232463513683_o-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/17015872_1615340075160337_7904709232463513683_o.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development\u2019s homebuying initiative, Maryland SmartBuy, was profiled on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt on February 26. SmartBuy allows qualified borrowers with student debt to purchase a selected home made available through the department. The buyer receives relief of student loan debt up to 15 percent of the total cost of the home, and also gets to take advantage of the Maryland Mortgage Program\u2019s competitive fixed interest rates, along with additional down payment and closing cost assistance. Watch the video here: <a href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/2lOg0G1\">http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/2lOg0G1<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development\u2019s homebuying initiative, Maryland SmartBuy, was profiled on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt on February 26. SmartBuy allows qualified borrowers with student debt to purchase a selected home made available through the department. The buyer receives relief of student loan debt up to 15 percent of the<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2017\/02\/28\/maryland-smartbuy-featured-on-nbc-nightly-news\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,23,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","category-maryland-mortgage-program","category-smartbuy-maryland-mortgage-program"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9050,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions\/9050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}