STREAMLINING SHARED EQUITY FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENTS

Grounded Solutions Network is a nonprofit that works to cultivate equitable communities by advancing long-term affordable housing solutions, and it supports a national membership base of organizations actively engaged in furthering shared equity homeownership. Grounded Solutions provides technical assistance services to a range of clients—such as community-based organizations, foundations, and municipalities—to facilitate the development of new shared equity projects such as community land trusts. Given that Grounded Solution’s membership is national in scope, members face differing political and financial challenges in their shared equity work. The Capstone team collaborated with Grounded Solutions to streamline the organization’s approach to conducting feasibility assessments. Through workshopping sessions with Grounded Solutions, the team identified key challenge areas that its members encounter and refined those categories based on findings from shared equity literature and feedback received from stakeholder interviews. In culmination, the team produced a toolkit consisting of a guidebook and an interactive data explorer tool.