Grounded Solutions Network

🏦 Thank you, Sen. Cortez Masto, for shining a light on CLTs during the Banking Committee's recent nomination hearing. CLTs are instrumental in addressing the nation's housing affordability crisis, and we appreciate your steadfast support.

📺 Full hearing: www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/10/...

🗣️ New Webinar Alert: On 11/6 from 3–4 pm ET, we’ll host a webinar exploring the vital role Housing Finance Authorities play in scaling homes with lasting affordability by supporting both production and buyers. 

📝 Register at groundedsolutions.org/event/scalin...

BREAKING: Senate Passes Landmark Bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act | United States Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs The Official website of The United States Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

🗞️ Read Chairman Tim Scott’s press release here: www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/maj...
🗞️ Read Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren’s press release here: www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/min... (4/4)

✅ The full text of the Act can be found here: www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
✅ A section-by-section analysis is available here: www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/do... (3/4)

🏘️ The #ROADtoHousingAct comprises 40 pieces of legislation aimed at removing regulatory barriers, incentivizing building, expanding access to homeownership, and other activities that would increase supply and bring down costs. (2/4)

‼️ The ROAD to Housing Act was included in the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). We hope the House will continue the good work by bringing their own improvements to this important legislative initiative. (1/4)

✨ #MemberSpotlight: This month, we're featuring a conversation with @homesteadclt.bsky.social CEO Kathleen Hosfeld about her organization’s goals, challenges, and accomplishments, as well as her personal journey to the field of affordable housing.

groundedsolutions.org/conversation...

Did you know that Grounded Solutions Network members receive an automatic discount on Training Institute Online courses? And if more than one person from your organization registers, you receive an additional discount! Spaces are filling up quickly, so register today! learning.groundedsolutions.org

Financing the future of community ownership Financing community ownership: Scaling models that build wealth and expand affordable housing.

Devin Culbertson of @groundedsolutions.bsky.social and Integrated Purposes Devin Murphy outline a three step approach to build a sustainable financing market for community ownership housing models.

Could it deliver a new wave of community wealth generation?

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🤔 Curious about how your shared equity housing organization or program can secure a partnership with a lending institution? Register for our Sept. 24 “Ask Me Anything” session about mortgage lending for lasting affordability. groundedsolutions.org/event/ask-me...

✨ This month’s Member Spotlight from the Mueller Foundation in Austin, TX, illustrates how a community, city, and developer can work together to create a stable, inclusive, economically viable, and desirable mixed-income neighborhood. groundedsolutions.org/member-spotl...

👏👏👏 Congrats to our member organization South Tower Community Land Trust for bringing Fresno’s first-ever community land trust-owned home to market.

#LastingAffordability #CLTs #AffordableHousing

👏 We applaud Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott and Ranking Member @warren.senate.gov's leadership on a robust housing package to tackle our nation’s housing crisis.

📜 The #ROADtoHousingAct specifically elevates shared equity programs in key sections. Read our statement: bit.ly/46xVsdi

Housing Communicators: Don't Water Down Your Values to Appeal to Opponents While many organizations try to adapt their messaging to reach a wider audience—which can be done—the research can help avoid some pitfalls along the way.

Putting together these remarks for a @groundedsolutions.bsky.social panel on housing messaging in an age of disinfo made a few things click for me—and based on the enthusiastic response I got, many others agreed. Perhaps it will be useful to you too! shelterforce.org/2025/07/14/h...

📰 Great article by @shelterforce.bsky.social and @nextcity.org laying out exactly how the Trump Administration's new tax law will severely undercut affordable housing progress.

📢 🗓️ Are you in the process of launching a shared equity program or organization? Join us from 2–4 pm ET on July 30 for a free “Ask Me Anything” session about using the right legal documents to effectively capture your mission and goals.

groundedsolutions.org/event/ask-me...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise energy and borrowing costs, hurting renters, homeowners, builders, and operators of housing of all types. This will, in turn, worsen our current housing crisis.

Read our statement: groundedsolutions.org/grounded-sol...

#AffordableHousing #OBBBA

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✨ This month's member spotlight: Front Step Community Land Trust

📰 Learn about the organization’s recent rebrand here: groundedsolutions.org/member-spotl...

📽️ Watch below to learn how Front Step is creating more permanently affordable housing in Missoula, MT. 👇 youtu.be/xAqGXw4QOZs

Shared Equity Strategy Wins Big With 2025 Ivory Prize Honors Grounded Solutions Network's Homes for the Future model earns national recognition as a market-savvy solution to America's affordable housing shortfall.

"Grounded Solutions Network's Homes for the Future model earns national recognition as a market-savvy solution to America's affordable housing shortfall." (The Builder's Daily) Read the full article here: www.thebuildersdaily.com/shared-equit...

🏡 We’re investing in a better future for generations to come, one home at a time.

Interested? Learn more here: youtu.be/XN0J1--1LVg?...

#AffordableHousing #HomesForTheFuture #SharedEquity #HousingJustice #CommunityFirst #GroundedSolutions #RentToOwn #EquityForAll #NationalHomeownershipMonth

YouTube video by Ivory Innovations 2025 Ivory Prize Winner in Finance - Grounded Solutions Network

#ICYMI, our Homes for the Future fund recently won an Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability in the finance category. We're so honored! If you're interested in our story, check out our winner video below.

📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=B67N...

Rectangular graphic listing event sponsors Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Land Home Financial Services, Inc., Melville Charitable Trust, NeighborWorks America, Gary Community Ventures, The Colorado Health Foundation, Charles Schwab Bank, Forsyth Street Advisors, SRI Wealth Management Group

🙏 Shout out to the sponsors who helped us bring together 460+ practitioners, advocates, policymakers and funders for last week’s #PolicyPracticePower conference. We couldn't have done it without you. #ThankYou

Call For Ideas Survey Call For Ideas Survey

📢 @shelterforce.bsky.social is gathering ideas for its upcoming series on community ownership! Complete the survey below by June 9 to share your thoughts on impactful innovations in this space. ⤵️

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#CommunityLandTrusts #SharedEquityHousing

🙌 Thank you to every single one of the 463 attendees who helped make this year’s #PolicyPracticePower conference a success!

Our speakers provided practical advice, thought-provoking analyses, and a much-needed infusion of hope to fuel our important work nationwide.

#StrongerTogether

‼️ Our newly launched pilot program with @nhtus.bsky.social and @rwjf.bsky.social will provide loans and technical assistance to four community land trusts seeking to expand their housing portfolios and organizational capacity.

Learn more about it: groundedsolutions.org/grounded-sol...

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Ivory Prize, representing this year's most promising solutions in housing innovation and affordability: @groundedsolutions.bsky.social, Reframe Systems, and the Florida Live Local Act.

Learn more about the winners at:
ivoryinnovations.org/ivory-prize-...

Happy #WorldCLTDay2025! CLTs are more than just housing — they're about cultivating vibrant, stable, inclusive communities. Today, let's recognize the role of CLTs in creating spaces where everyone belongs. Learn more at worldcltday.org.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Housing as a Public Good: The State of Social Housing Today, a Shelterforce/NPQ webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about join... What do we mean by social housing in the United States? How has it worked in the past, and how can and should it be expanded? Join organizers, practitioners, and authors to discuss both how to develop...

📢 Join @shelterforce.bsky.social and @npquarterly.bsky.social TOMORROW, May 14, at 2 PM ET for a powerful conversation about social housing in the U.S. — what it was, what it could be, and how we build it together. Register now: buff.ly/hENDP2u

#SocialHousing #HousingJustice #AffordableHousing

ICYMI: Colby Sledge of @groundedsolutions.bsky.social considers discriminatory property tax policies and their impact on homeownership in the latest edition of The Rooftop, a series from @NewAmerica.org's Future of Land and Housing Program.

🔗 go.newamerica.org/affordable-h...

🔔🔔🔔 The deadline to register for our upcoming #PolicyPracticePower conference is fast approaching! This is THE national event for affordable housing advocates and practitioners wishing to connect, learn from each other's progress, and build strong networks.

Join us! 👉 www.policypracticepower.com