Launching an era ofhousing abundance

“Three generations under one roof. We want more space, and we want to own it.  We work way too hard to give our money away.  ”

“I’ve already designed a career. Now, I want to buy a home, and build up my assets. Not someone else’s investment property — mine. ”

“We are looking for the opportunity to purchase in a location where we can be home in time for dinner with our children. ”

“My wife and I work hard for our daughters. We’re not buying a house. We’re buying the foundation for their lives, and our dignity in old age. ”

“Every year the rent climbs and another family on our block packs up. We worked hard to get here, and realize the only way to stay is to buy our own home.  ”

“I can afford rent in this neighborhood. What I can’t afford is staying a renter forever in it. Buying makes sense if the pricing made sense. ”

“We want to own our home so our son can have a stable foundation for his emotional development. And when we’re older, that same home will be the financial ground we get to stand on - we are just looking for a solution in the city that we love. ”

“In retirement I need a stable mortgage, not a rental hike or a landlord kicking me out. I want a door with my name on it — and a balcony for my plants. ”

“While we can work, we want to buy a home so that when we are old we are never a burden to our children, and we can welcome our grandchildren. ”

“We can make rent in the West Village. What we can’t do is rent here forever and have nothing to show for it.  We have the income, and the credit, we are looking for a developer who builds for normal people.  ”

“I came back to build something my parents couldn’t in the city that raised me, I have built a career and a community, now I am looking for that home.   ”

“I am old enough that I want to build more permanence.  I don't just want to pay rent, and share every decision about the apartment with roommates.  I need to stay in this city though, my career and my future are here.   ”

“Austin keeps pricing out the people who made East Austin worth moving to. We don’t want to start over in another city in our thirties — we want both our names on a deed here.  Leaving would be our last resort.   ”

“We want to own a home before we have children, and we want to have children soon.  We only have so much time.    ”

“I don’t want a two-hour commute — I want to walk to work, I want to own my home, and I want to build community.   ”

“I’ve paid a mortgage every month for ten years — just never my own.  I can look out for myself, and I have faith that I will figure out a way to own a home.   ”

“We want a deed in Dorchester, not another lease we have to beg to renew. Most of our check goes to a landlord and disappears. Thirty more years of that and we’ll still own nothing — and Boston will have priced our kids out for good. ”

“I built my career in Seattle — I shouldn’t have to leave it to finally own a front door. I want equity in this city, not another year of rent I’ll never see again. ”

“Our kids learned to walk on this stoop — and the lease is up again. We don’t want to be pushed to the suburbs and start over. We want a deed in Five Points, so the next time rent jumps it’s not our family that has to leave. ”

“We built a café two blocks from here from nothing. Now we dream of the apartment above it — a home that grows with the life we’re building, right where we built it. ”

“I want to wake up to that skyline knowing the lease is not up in three months — a home I designed, an address I chose, and a future I’m building one sunrise at a time. ”

“My mother helps look after the kids.  My sister-in-law helps take them to soccer practice.  The only way for us to stay united is to buy a home here, before rising prices force us elsewhere.  ”

“Homeowners seem to be the only ones safe from these crazy rent hikes.  We are not ready to leave, we want to own here.  ”

“I’m done asking a landlord whether I can hang a shelf, keep a pet, or stay another year. I built my work in downtown Phoenix — and if I could buy one of these lots I would built my home here too.  ”

“We came a long way to give our children a quiet room of their own. We dream of a home with our name on it — a place where our family’s next chapter begins. ”

““East Nashville made me, my friends, work, and professional network are here. I don’t want to start over in some cheaper town — I want own my home here, and reach the next levels of my profession.  ” ”

“We've figured out that we are not really a part of this community until we own a part of this community.  ”