Homeownership Today and Tomorrow: Building Assets While Preserving Affordability

Can low-income families build enough equity in them to transform their circumstances? New research says yes.

The cover of Homeownership Today and Tomorrow: Building assets while preserving affordability.Federal, state, and local governments spend billions of dollars every year on programs designed to promote wider access to homeownership for low- and moderate-income families, but these programs only help one family, and then their subsidy is lost. Permanently affordable homeownership through shared-equity programs are a more efficient use of public funds. But can low-income families build enough equity in them to transform their circumstances? New research says yes.

Read Homeownership Today and Tomorrow: Building assets while preserving affordability.

Miriam Axel-Lute is CEO/editor-in-chief of Shelterforce. She lives in Albany, New York, and is a proud small-city aficionado.

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