I Squared Community Development Consulting

I is helping NeighborWorks America® to evaluate the potential expansion of Home Value Protection, a house price insurance product offered in Syracuse, New York. Eric Hangen led the development of the initial business plan for this product, helping to raise a $5 million capital grant and annual operating grants in excess of $50,000. The program itse... lf has received attention in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Money Magazine, and NPR's "Marketplace." The Connecticut Housing Investment Fund (CHIF) retained I2 in 2004, in collaboration with Eileen Flanagan Community Development Consultants, to prepare two feasibility studies in 2004. The first study was an analysis of CHIF's Neighborhood Rebuilder Appraisal Gap Financing Program; the second study was a review of the viability of adding a new loan product to finance the acquisition and rehabilitation of multifamily buildings to CHIF's existing list of loan products. CHIF was extremely pleased with each of the analyses prepared on both studies.Read More