The Most Interesting Things from Thursday’s Housing Forum at City Hall
From The Stranger Posted by Anna Minard on Mon, Feb [...]
Seattle Incentive Zoning Study
The Seattle City Council commissioned this study to assess the impact of their Incentive Zoning policy.
Economics of Inclusionary Housing
Do inclusionary housing requirements just drive up the cost of market rate housing?
Review: Is Inclusionary Zoning Inclusionary?
Review of Is Inclusionary Zoning Inclusionary?, by Heather L. Schwartz, [...]
The Asset Building Potential of Shared Equity Homeownership
Can lower income families build wealth in resale price restricted homes? This paper presents surprising findings from data collected by one mature program.
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.
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?
Best Practices in Inclusionary Housing
This paper outlines some of the challenges of ongoing administration of Inclusionary housing programs and highlights the policies, procedures and systems that successful programs have been using to address these challenges.
Stewardship for Lasting Affordability
This paper prepared for a national convening on Shared Equity Homeownership, outlines the key stewardship functions necessary for monitoring affordable ownership units and profiles strategies used in several communities.