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Balancing Durable Affordability and Wealth Creation: Responding to Concerns about Shared Equity Homeownership
Publication Date: June 2009
Publisher(s): Center for Housing Policy (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Rick Jacobus; Ryan Sherriff
Series:
Special Collection: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Topic: Economics (Property and wealth)
Social conditions (Housing)
Keywords: Shared Equity
Type: Report
Abstract:
Rick Jacobus is a principal at Burlington Associates and Community Development. Ryan Sherriff is a research associate for the Center for Housing Policy. This report explores community concerns over the potential limitation of wealth creation in shared equity homeownership programs and how to best balance permanent affordability and asset building in these programs.