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.

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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?

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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.

By |2014-06-20T22:50:45+00:00April 7th, 2007|Community Land Trusts, Homeownership, Inclusionary Housing|Comments Off on Preservation of Affordable Homeownership

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.

By |2014-06-20T22:51:32+00:00May 7th, 2005|Community Land Trusts, Homeownership|Comments Off on Creating Permanently Affordable Homeownership with CLTs

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.

By |2014-06-20T22:51:51+00:00May 7th, 2000|Community Land Trusts, Homeownership, Inclusionary Housing|Comments Off on Understanding Subsidy Retention