If you have ever dreamed of buying a duplex or triple-decker home with your sibling or best friend, now’s your chance.
This month, the City of Boston launched a pilot program aimed at helping homebuyers do just that. As WBUR’s Amy Sokolow reports, the new co-purchasing housing program, launched via the city’s “Housing Innovation Lab,” offers zero-interest loans to help middle-income residents buy multi-family homes and build wealth in the city, together. “ Instead of just having investors be the only ones who could buy a triple decker and then rent it out, or ‘condo-ize’ it, now families will be able to own their piece of it,” Mayor Michelle Wu told WBUR’s Morning Edition host Tiziana Dearing.
