Cover Story: Bringing Shared-Equity Homeownership to Scale

Introduction By John Emmeus Davis


Gaining Ground By Paul Bradley
Manufactured-housing residents are turning their homes into assets while securing the land underneath them.


City Hall Steps In By Rick Jacobus and Michael Brown
Municipally supported community land trusts are boosting affordable-housing
stock in a growing number of cities.


The Purchase of a Lifetime By Debbi Wilgoren
When luxury condo developers starting buying up properties on W Street in D.C., the low-income tenants who already lived there decided to get in the game.


A Winning Campaign By Radhika Fox
Affordable-housing advocates in D.C. won legislation to keep poorer residents
from being victims of the city's economic prosperity.


Asset-Building Comes of Age By Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb and Ted Howard
Nonprofits and local governments are helping communities reap the benefits of individual and collective wealth-building strategies.


Epilogue: Toward a Common Agenda for Growing
Shared-Equity Housing
By John Emmeus Davis
Changing the subsidy formula allowed one state housing agency to help create hundreds of units for low-income disabled households.

Obama's Third Way By David Moberg
Lessons learned as a community organizer may propel Barack Obama to the
White House.


Too Much of a Good Thing? By Violet Law
Housing First has succeeded in helping to house chronically homeless individuals, but has it left increasing numbers of families and children out in the cold?