A report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy shows that low income households, renters, and African American households face greater energy cost burdens than higher income households, homeowners, and white households.
Read MoreThe County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program, a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, highlights the many social and economic factors which influence health, and provides resources to help communities take action.
Read MoreThe purpose of this report is to provide information on Community Land Trusts in the United States based upon a comprehensive survey of 96 CLTs conducted at the start of 2011.
Read MoreThe study examined mortgage delinquency and foreclosure rates among the owner-occupants of resale-restricted houses and condominiums in community land trusts (CLTs) across the United States and compared CLT results to rates of delinquency and foreclosure among the owner-occupants of conventional market-rate housing reported by the Mortgage Bankers Association’s National Delinquency Survey (MBA).
Read MoreThis report shows that shared equity programs are successful in creating homeownership opportunities for lower income families that allow purchasers to accumulate assets, while, at the same time, creating a stock of affordable housing that remains within the financial reach of subsequent lower income homebuyers.
Read MoreThis paper by the National Housing Institute (publishers of Shelterforce) for Cornerstone Partnership (now part of Grounded Solutions Network) looks at innovative local affordable homeownership programs around the country that have found ways to make ownership accessible and also much safer and more sustainable, while concurrently achieving long-term affordability.
Read MoreThis study examines the rates of delinquencies and foreclosure filings in mortgages that were held by households who owned homes in Community Land Trusts (CLTs) during 2009.
Read MoreThis case study analyzes outcomes for Thistle Community Housing’s Community Land Trust, which started providing homeownership opportunities in the Boulder area to low- and moderate income households in 1996.
Read MoreThis case study analyzes outcomes for the Champlain Housing Trust (CHT), which started providing homeownership opportunities in Burlington, Vermont to low- and moderate-income families in 1984.
Read MoreIn this paper, the New America Foundation reviews the literature on homeownership as an asset building strategy for lower income households and presents a case study of a Community Land Trust.
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