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May 6 2013

A New Kind of Redlining: Punishing Success

BY JOHN DAVIS: As the housing market has begun its slow recovery, major banks have been steadily withdrawing support and withholding capital from shared equity homeownership. It’s as if the entire sector had to be taught a lesson in humility after out-performing the bankers’ favored form of tenure.

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Aug 27 2012

No Time for Timidity

BY JOHN DAVIS: For many people, in many places, shared equity homeownership is simply a sweeter deal and safer investment than buying a home on the open market. Yet few of us who work with community land trusts (CLTs), limited equity cooperatives (LECs), or inclusionary housing programs mandating long-term affordability are accustomed to trumpeting the superiority of the housing we provide.

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Jun 28 2012

Too Much Measurement

BY GREG ROSENBERG: I remember a point I reached in my work a year and a half ago where I felt like I was spending just as much time measuring my performance as I was actually performing. I was filling out elaborately detailed tree structures with measurable performance targets. I was splitting each 15 minutes of my time into 16 different program categories.

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NOVEMBER 2019

Roots&Branches is now part of the Center for Community Land Trust Innovation:  www.cltweb.org.  We’re migrating much of the content from Roots&Branches to this new website — and as such, Roots&Branches will go into archival mode.

CONTACT:  Please feel free to email Greg Rosenberg with any questions you have at greg@gregrosenberg.com.

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