Shared-Equity Homeownership Offers an Alternative Path to Wealth Building for Renters with Low Incomes [housingmatters.urban.org]
By Arthur Acolin, Alex Ramiller, et al., Photo: Imagenet/Shutterstock, Housing Matters, January 26, 2022 Homeownership is a key tool for wealth building, particularly for households with low and moderate incomes, for whom homeownership is often their primary means of asset building. Yet barriers to entry, including down payments and other borrowing constraints, prevent many households from accessing and equitably benefiting from homeownership. Shared-equity homeownership (SEH) programs are...