Hemet considers new ways to boost housing
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 By MICHAEL PERRAULT The Press-Enterprise Hemet [...]
A New Way Home Video
I wrote and narrated this 14 minute video introducing the concept of Shared Equity Homeownership and profiling several leading programs and their residents.
The City-CLT partnership
Based on interviews with dozens of practitioners from around the country, this guidebook is intended to help local government policymakers to develop stronger partnerships with local Community Land Trusts to develop and monitor permanently affordable homeownership units.
City-CLT Partnership Workshops
I developed this training curriculum for the National Community Land Trust Academy based on research that John Davis and I conducted for a companion report issued by the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy.
Asset Building and Affordable Homeownership
This 15 minute video presentation looks more closely at local affordable homeownership programs from the point of view of asset building. Can affordable ownership programs be seen as asset building strategies? How do they compare with traditional ownership?
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.
Creating Permanently Affordable Homeownership with CLTs
Written for local elected officials and housing program administrators, this chapter explains how Community Land Trusts operate and places them within a continuum of other policy alternatives.
Understanding Subsidy Retention
I created this interactive tutorial on the economics of permanently affordable housing after trying to explain these concepts to small groups with static PowerPoint slides.