wealth building

In the face of extractive “investments,” communities are exploring creative models that let them both exert control and earn returns themselves.

This set of federal tax policy recommendations could support first-time homebuyers, enable renters and owners to save money, and help close the wealth gap.

Despite the hopes pinned on it, homeownership is currently too affected by racism at every turn to be an equalizer.

A lot of conversations about the racial wealth gap focuses too much on homeownership as the only solution. It’s much more complex. Shelterforce’s Miriam Axel-Lute talks with Anne Price, president of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development.

It may seem counterintuitive, but in order to close the wealth gap, we must shift our focus from the gap itself to the policies, conditions, and systems that spawned it.

Financial education messaging is too often presented as if individual behavior and attitudes are the cause of our growing economic challenges rather than our social, economic, and political systems.

A review of “The Making of a Democratic Economy: Building Prosperity for the Many, Not Just the Few,” by Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard

Estate planning should be employed as part of a broader plan of preservation of wealth and assets in communities of color. 

What local government can do to support new, more inclusive economic models.

What is productive agricultural land and clean water worth? What are strong communal relationships worth? What is a clear connection to heritage, to culture, to past, to future, and self, worth?