,Balancing Durable Affordability and Wealth Creation: Responding to Concerns about Shared Equity Homeownership

Balancing Durable Affordability and Wealth Creation: Responding to Concerns about Shared Equity Homeownership


 

Publication Date: June 2009

Publisher: Center for Housing Policy (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Rick Jacobus; Ryan Sherriff

Research Area: Economics; Social conditions

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.