Cornerstone Partnership commissioned the Urban Institute to conduct an evaluation of homeownership programs with long-term affordability controls.  Find out how seven programs across the country provide benefits to their communities by preserving the affordability of their homes.
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Find out how the Cornerstone Partnership’s assessment of 14 of San Mateo County’s affordable homeownership programs uncovered 12 high-impact practices that are necessary in order for programs to adequately protect the public investment and protect homebuyers.
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 Three rounds of Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) funding have been distributed by HUD to help communities recover from the mortgage crisis.  The NSP guidelines encourage communities to use the funds to preserve affordability to the maximum extent possible.  Hear how… Read the rest

Are you collecting the National Performance data fields?  Last year, representatives from the field and homeownership researchers helped Cornerstone assemble a standardized list of data fields to be used to measure program performance and impact.  By having programs collect the… Read the rest

How does you program measure up?  Find out by completing a short self-assessment… Read the rest.  Answer these 15-quesetions and identify strengths and weaknesses in your program design.

The mortgage crisis has led to an abundance of vacant foreclosed homes across the country, negatively impacting communities’ property values and quality of life, and often leading to even more foreclosures.  While urgent action is needed to reverse this trend,… Read the rest

This brief guide book describes how several sponsors of affordable homeownership programs have established repair and replacement reserves to help lower income homeowners to save adequately for long-term home maintenace.  The guide outlines key choices in the design of these… Read the rest

As part of our work building tools to help programs better manage their affordable housing programs, Cornerstone Partnership  conducted an assessment of affordable ownership housing programs in San Mateo County, California to offer guidance for the jurisdictions as well as… Read the rest

Are you ready to take your program to the next level? Join us for our first HomeKeeper Orientation on November 17th (10am Pacific).  Find out what it takes to implement this web-based workflow management system, hear from current users, and… Read the rest

 Three rounds of Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) funding have been distributed by HUD to help communities recover from the mortgage crisis.  The NSP guidelines encourage communities to use the funds to preserve affordability to the maximum extent possible.  Hear how… Read the rest

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Two of the prime goals of shared equity homeownership programs are to provide long-term affordability and asset building opportunities to lower income families. Ideally, these programs aim to balance these two… Read the rest

Cornerstone Partnership commissioned the Urban Institute to conduct an evaluation of homeownership programs with long-term affordability controls.  Find out how seven programs across the country provide benefits to their communities by preserving the affordability of their homes. Webinar Tuesday, October 26… Read the rest

Find out how the Cornerstone Partnership’s assessment of 14 of San Mateo County’s affordable homeownership programs uncovered 12 high-impact practices that are necessary in order for programs to adequately protect the public investment and protect homebuyers. Webinar Tuesday, September 28th… Read the rest

Strategies for Hot and Cold Markets December 10th, 2009 – Washington, DC Community land trusts, limited equity cooperatives, deed-restricted, owner-occupied houses and condominiums, are among the affordable homeownership models in which the rights, responsibilities, risks, and rewards of homeownership are… Read the rest

In this paper for the New America Foundation… Read the rest, we review the literature on homeownership as an asset building strategy for lower income households. We then present a real world case study, examining wealth building and household mobility among buyers

This report, one of several related resources published by the Center for Housing Policy… Read the rest, provides an overview of the strategies available to help communities preserve affordability of assisted homeownership units and explains the pros and cons of different approaches. 

The mortgage crisis has led to an abundance of vacant foreclosed homes across the country, negatively impacting communities’ property values and quality of life, and often leading to even more foreclosures.  While urgent action is needed to reverse this trend,… Read the rest

This brief guide book describes how several sponsors of affordable homeownership programs have established repair and replacement reserves to help lower income homeowners to save adequately for long-term home maintenace.  The guide outlines key choices in the design of these… Read the rest

As part of our work building tools to help programs better manage their affordable housing programs, Cornerstone Partnership  conducted an assessment of affordable ownership housing programs in San Mateo County, California to offer guidance for the jurisdictions as well as… Read the rest

Community Land Trusts can offer a stable institutional structure for long term stewardship and monitoring of affordable homeownership units. This report produced by the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy provides an overview of the Community Land Trust model for local… Read the rest

HUD has a resource website dedicated to the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.  The NSP Resource Exchange, located at www.hudnsphelp.info… Read the rest, hosts TA tools created by national TA providers along with NSP webinars, HUD updates, FAQs and HUD guidelines.