shared equity

A: Not any more! There are many myths out there about manufactured (or “mobile”) homes, but in fact they can be a very important source of quality affordable housing…

It’s time to take factory-built homes seriously as affordable housing.

One of the common arguments from those who are skeptical of shared-equity homeownership is that it's unfair to ask low-income people to give up their right to 100 percent of […]

During the worst years of the Great American Mortgage Meltdown, shared equity homes represented an island of stability in a turbulent sea of market failure. Whether community land trusts (CLTs); limited […]

Though they started at the same place around the same time, community land trusts and Habitat for Humanity soon went their separate ways.  In recent years, however, inventive practitioners have […]

Shared-equity homeownership is best known as a tool to fight displacement in hot-market areas. But in fact, it has many advantages in weak-market areas too.

It’s embarrassing to admit, but those who vehemently oppose shared equity homeownership may have a deeper understanding of the sector’s potential than those of us who ardently support it. Our […]

A: Yes! And keeps them safer than traditional homeownership does.

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

A range of existing policy tools can help preserve and expand affordable housing near planned transit stations — but to have the most effect, they need to be put in place up front.

Permanent affordability and asset building might seem at first blush to be contradictory goals for a low-income homeownership program, but new research says in fact they can be achieved together.

Counter-cyclical stewardship is the only way to ensure that lower-income families are neither nudged out by rising costs nor forced out by foreclosure.