New Ideas
Shelterforce: Best of Both Worlds
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.
Shelterforce: Cities and CLTs
Local governments are embracing community land trusts to promote and preserve affordable housing.
Hemet considers new ways to boost housing
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 By MICHAEL PERRAULT The Press-Enterprise Hemet officials may have a new tool next month to create affordable housing: a community land trust. Community land trusts are nonprofit, community-based housing organizations that [...]
SF Chronicle: Coffee Shops Perk Up Streets
Coffee shops perk up streets; SAN FRANCISCO; Cafes revitalize neighborhoods by providing safe gathering places, drawing other businesses Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer The San Francisco Chronicle (California) October 25, 2008 Neighborhoods like North Beach [...]
Shelterforce: Cities and CLTs
Local governments are embracing community land trusts to promote and preserve affordable housing.
Preservation of Affordable Homeownership
This paper examines the range of different policy options that communities have adopted to reduce the cost of homeownership, with a particular focus on the effectiveness of each option in preserving affordable homeownership opportunities over time.
