Posts by Brett Theodos — Guest Contributor

Brett Theodos is a Senior Research Associate with the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute. His research focuses on affordable housing, economic and community development, and neighborhood change.

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  Can affordable housing create wealth and stay affordable?

  By Brett Theodos (Guest Contributor) December 20, 2013 18

  There is a debate raging in Washington, DC, about how to best balance two equally valid but competing public objectives with the city’s affordable homeownership programs: wealth creation and preservation of housing affordability. Homeownership is critical to wealth creation for low and moderate-income families. Home equity represents fully 60% of low-income households’…  Keep reading…