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October 29, 2007
Best Practices in Administration and Oversight of Inclusionary Housing
This paper outlines some of the challanges of ongoing administration of Inclusionary housing programs and highlights the policies, procedures and systems that successful programs have been using to address these challanges. The paper identifies common approaches to staffing these programs over time including partnerships with local consultants or nonprofit organizations and looks at scalable revenue sources to support the ongoing costs of administration. [More]
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July 02, 2007
Shelterforce: CLTs and City Government
 | This article from Shelterforce Magazine outlines the growing trend of municipal sponsorship of Community Land Trusts including profiles of new CLTs in Irvine, CA and Chicago. |
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April 28, 2007
Preservation of Affordable Homeownership
 | This paper published by the National Housing Conference's Center for Housing Policy describes the continuum of approaches to perservation of affordability in affordable homeownership programs and outlines some of the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. |
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Shared Equity, Transformative Wealth
 | This paper published by the National Housing Conference's Center for Housing Policy examines common shared equity homeownership models. The paper argues that well designed programs can generate life altering wealth for homeowners while also preserving affordability of housing for future generations. |
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June 27, 2005
Community Land Trusts for Permanently Affordable Homeownership
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.[More]Posted by Rick Jacobus | Comments (0)
Organizing for Community Control over Neighborhood Development
This paper describes a specific approach to integrating meaningfull community leadership into a professionalized development organization. The approach was developed by the Planning and Organizing staff of the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation as part of a comprehensive community planning process focused on Oakland's Lower San Antonio Neighborhood. [More]Posted by Rick Jacobus | Comments (0)
Beyond Lender Bias: The Struggle for Capital in a Networked Economy
There is no doubt that information technology has brought about huge changes in world financial markets. Markets which used to be largely isolated are now inextricably interconnected by a real time network of transactions in which, generally, capital flows instantly...[More]Posted by Rick Jacobus | Comments (0)
