For generations, starter homes have helped families put down roots and build savings. These modest, affordable homes have no official definition, but opportunities to buy them are disappearing.
That decline is the focus of “The Next Playbook: Bringing Back the Starter Home,” a new brief published by the Center for Affordable Housing Lending (CAHL) and the National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders (NAAHL).
The policy brief identifies why starter homes are vanishing and outlines five steps the federal government could take to bring them back. It was written by Julia Gordon on behalf of CAHL and Aaron Shroyer, director of policy and advocacy at NAAHL.
Gordon, the former assistant secretary for housing and federal housing commissioner ...
