Introduction
With the publication last fall of "Shared Equity Homeownership: the Changing Landscape of Resale-restricted, Owner-occupied Housing":http://www.nhi.org/policy/SharedEquity.html, the National…
With the publication last fall of "Shared Equity Homeownership: the Changing Landscape of Resale-restricted, Owner-occupied Housing":http://www.nhi.org/policy/SharedEquity.html, the National…
Manufactured-home communities, long vulnerable to displacement at the whim of park owners, are working with nonprofit partners to increase resident ownership of the land.
Local governments are embracing community land trusts to promote and preserve affordable housing.
The bank balked. Neighbors grumbled. But these poor tenants would not be swept away in the real estate boom.
Housing advocates in Washington, D.C., marshaled four strategies for achieving inclusionary-zoning policies designed to protect affordability in a rapidly gentrifying city.
From IDAs to comprehensive community wealth building, the number of strategies to increase personal and collective assets is growing.
Growing shared-equity housing
Barack Obama carried lessons he learned as a community organizer to the political arena. Both organizers and politicians would be wise to study them closely.
Housing First may have gone a long way toward taking homeless individuals off the street, but it's leaving families out in the cold.