Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced yesterday that the city of Boston’s Home Center has received a $158,475 grant from the state Division of Banks.

The Boston Home Center, part of the city’s Department of Neighborhood Development, helps Boston residents purchase, improve and keep their homes. The grant is part of $1.3 million in grants that will help fund first-time homeownership counseling programs and foreclosure prevention education centers throughout the state. The grant will also help fund partner nonprofits that provide regional foreclosure prevention counseling services, and help those agencies better market their prevention programs.

“I am proud of the progress we’ve made on preventing home foreclosures and this grant will help the Boston Home Center continue its efforts towards affordable homeownership for all,” Walsh said in a statement. “This grant supports Boston’s mission to provide foreclosure prevention and housing stability for families in all of our neighborhoods, and I thank the commonwealth for their partnership in achieving these goals.”