Nehemiah Corporation of America
Nehemiah Corporation of America is a non-profit organization based in Sacramento, California specializing in homeownership, affordable housing and community development. It started in 1994 as a small organization, but grew to prominence later in the 1990s after it developed a program that allowed home buyers to make down payments on their purchases using funds that were derived from the home sellers. This program, the Nehemiah Program, became popular and was widely emulated, giving birth to what came to be known as the seller-funded down-payment assistance industry. The industry attracted criticism from U.S. federal agencies (particularly the Government Accountability Office and the Internal Revenue Service) and was ultimately shut down in 2008 by a change in federal law.
Nehemiah Walter
Nehemiah Walter (b. in Ireland in December, 1663; d. in Roxbury, Mass., 17 September, 1750) was an American clergyman. He was of English parentage, and came with his father, Thomas, to the American colonies in 1679, settling in Boston. He was graduated at Harvard in 1684, and, after living for a time in Nova Scotia, became colleague to John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians. He was minister of Roxbury, Mass., from 17 October 1688, till his death. Walter married a daughter of Increase Mather. He published "The body of death anatomized: A brief essay concerning the sorrows and the desires of the regenerate, upon their sense of indwelling sin" (Boston, 1707) ; "Practical Discourses on the Holiness of Heaven" (1726); and a posthumous volume of "Sermons on Isaiah LV." (1755).