Get Help with Housing

Are you called to serve in a community where housing feels out of reach?

Got Housing? Need Housing?™

Fill out our Got Housing? Need Housing?™ form and we’ll try to match you with a below-market rental from a mission-minded property owner. It’s not guaranteed, but it’s real — and it works. Tell us where you serve, what you need, and we’ll do our best.

Start Here – Complete Our Housing Intake Form

Strategic Consulting

You’re not crazy, too demanding, or entitled. You’re just in Egypt — and housing might be the thing pushing you out of a job you love. We can help you explain to your leaders why housing matters, and why clarity around it brings freedom.

We guide churches and ministries through creating housing strategies that are grounded in your own values, culture, and priorities — as named by staff and stakeholders. Sometimes there’s alignment. Sometimes there’s a wake-up call. Either way, we help get everyone on the same page and on the path forward.

Down Payment Assistance Program

Aslan’s Down Payment Assistance Program helps ministry staff close the gap between what you can afford and what homes actually cost — using shared appreciation funded by mission-aligned supporters. We’ll walk with you through it all:

  1. Helps ministry staff close the gap between what you can afford
  2. Connect you with a mortgage lender who gets ministry staff
  3. Guide you (and your contributors) through the full transaction
  4. Provide beautiful, ready-to-use resources to share your story with supporters

You won’t be alone. And yes — people really have bought homes this way.

Programs

To help those in ministry find permanent affordable housing solutions in the communities they feel called to serve.

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Down Payment
Assistance (DPA) Program

Strategic Consulting

Got Housing? Need Housing?™

What people are saying

With YOUR support, Aslan is on the move!

“As a former para-ministry staff person with Young Life I can fully understand and empathize with the problems we are facing by not providing long-term housing solutions in our local Christian communities. My focus on ministry is still just as passion-filled, except now I help those on the frontlines obtain their long-term dream homes alongside Aslan’s powerful finance ministry.”
Danny Waddell, Cross-Country Mortgage, LLC
Aslan Down Payment Assistance Program Lending Lead
"I'm so grateful for New North’s Housing Policy and support from Aslan! I was able to buy a duplex in the Bay Area—something I never thought possible. The rental income helps cover my mortgage and I now have stability for my family. It’s been a total game-changer."
Rob Hall
Pastor
New North Church (San Francisco)
“Buying a home in the Bay Area always felt like a distant dream. But through WestGate’s support and Aslan’s Down Payment Assistance Program, that dream became real. I’m overwhelmed with gratitude—and now, deeply rooted in the community I serve.”
David Kim
Pastor
WestGate Church (Saratoga)
"We're so happy that Aslan helped our retirement diversify into high quality real estate. We hope Aslan is able to do this over and over for like minded people."
Greg and AJ Lundell
Contributor (Self-Directed IRA)
"Young Life (Redwood City/San Carlos)"
"We're so happy that Aslan helped our retirement diversify into high quality real estate. We hope Aslan is able to do this over and over for like minded people."
Greg and AJ Lundell
Contributor (Self-Directed IRA)
"Young Life (Redwood City/San Carlos)"
“Buying a home in the Bay Area always felt like a distant dream. But through WestGate’s support and Aslan’s Down Payment Assistance Program, that dream became real. I’m overwhelmed with gratitude—and now, deeply rooted in the community I serve.”
David Kim
Pastor
WestGate Church (Saratoga)
"I'm so grateful for New North’s Housing Policy and support from Aslan! I was able to buy a duplex in the Bay Area—something I never thought possible. The rental income helps cover my mortgage and I now have stability for my family. It’s been a total game-changer."
Rob Hall
New North Church (San Francisco)
“As a former para-ministry staff person with Young Life I can fully understand and empathize with the problems we are facing by not providing long-term housing solutions in our local Christian communities. My focus on ministry is still just as passion-filled, except now I help those on the frontlines obtain their long-term dream homes alongside Aslan’s powerful finance ministry.”
Danny Waddell, Cross-Country Mortgage, LLC
Aslan Down Payment Assistance Program Lending Lead

Resources & FAQs

Not necessarily. We work with pastors, missionaries, and a range of ministry staff recognized by their church or organization.

  • Below-market rental homes through our Got Housing? Need Housing?™ marketplace
  • Down Payment Assistance Program to help homebuyers with funds from donors and contributors
  • Strategic housing consulting for churches/ministries: housing allowances, housing policies, parsonages…

Yes, but not like a traditional loan. Our DPA Program allows you to buy with contributor support. When the home is sold, the equity appreciation is shared between you and the contributors.

Yes. While Aslan began in the Bay Area, we now serve multiple high-cost housing markets nationwide.

Who We Serve

Contributors & Donors

Fuel the mission through unrestricted support. Leverage your Donor Advised Fund, estate plan, or digital assets.
Donate or Invest

Elders & Ministry Staff

You care about God, your church, and people. Maybe you own a home & want to help your pastor buy one.
Start Here

Property Owners

Aslan exists because of people like you — thoughtful, mission-minded leaders who saw a gap and decided to close it.
List a Home at Below Market

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