Today, real estate investor and entrepreneur Vernon J. announced the launch of EquityCoin™ (EQTY), the first digital token on the blockchain backed by affordable housing. Through this decentralized approach to community development, EquityCoin plans to transform the real estate funding apparatus while creating generational wealth for Black and brown communities.
According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the U.S. has a shortage of 7 million affordable apartments, which has been exacerbated by the economic fallout from COVID-19. To address this national crisis, Vernon created EquityCoin as a vehicle to galvanize communities of color to invest in local affordable housing projects cooperatively.
Vernon plans to democratize real estate investing for everyday millennials by reducing barriers to entry such as high investment minimums and significant net worth requirements. At the same time, he seeks to provide quality housing within America’s opportunity zones. Each EquityCoin Token (EQTY) represents a fraction of ownership in the company’s growing portfolio of properties.
“The integration and application of Blockchain technology within the real estate funding sector is the solution to reducing America’s racial wealth gap, which has more than doubled in the last four decades. Through the fractionalization and tokenization of assets, Blockchain technology reduces the minimum investment size, which opens new opportunities previously inaccessible to most Americans. EquityCoin will champion a new sharing equity economy by giving community members the opportunity to own fractions of income-producing properties in the cities that they actually live in,” says Vernon.
Beatriz Durant, EquityCoin, Inc.’s Director of Community Management and Leader in Energy and Environmental Design, speaks further on the essential programming that will lead the way to a better tomorrow.
“By marrying Blockchain technology and affordable housing, it is our hope to revitalize urban areas from coast to coast, building a more healthy, livable, and sustainable society.”
More than just a digital token, EquityCoin adds civility to wealth-building. In fact, the creation of EquityCoin was inspired after Vernon saw the challenges of homelessness firsthand while renting one of his available units in East New York, Brooklyn, NY. to a single mother living in a shelter.
“Once I handed her the keys to the apartment, she wept with tears full of joy. That feeling of fulfillment was inexplicable; and it was at that moment I knew my purpose was to offer a helping hand to thousands of other families in need,” says Vernon.
EquityCoin, Inc. will begin applying its real estate tokenization process with an assemblage of multifamily properties in the East New York section of Brooklyn. The company plans to launch programming and resources in four additional target markets: South Los Angeles, North Miami, Newark, New Jersey, and Oakland, California.
For more information about EquityCoin’s mission, go to https://EquityCoin.org
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