Meet the Black and Latinx Company Using Blockchain to House Homeless Families

NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Based as a public profit company, EquityCoin, Inc. created the primary digital token on the blockchain backed by inexpensive housing. The corporate gives residences for these in peril of turning into homeless whereas serving to community-members construct generational wealth by fractional actual property possession.

In response to EquityCoin founder and CEO Vernon J., “on any given night time in America, there are over 500,000 folks sleeping on the streets despite the fact that research present that growing entry to everlasting housing has the potential to cut back homelessness by 50%. That is the disaster of our time, and we’d like extra private and non-private packages that may immediately deal with this primary necessity.”

Vernon, a industrial actual property skilled and investor with over 16 years of expertise, and over $150 million in transactions, launched EquityCoin in January of 2021 after renting out one in every of his models within the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, to a mom and son who had been residing in a shelter.

“I noticed tears of pleasure in her eyes once I handed her the keys to her new unit. By no means earlier than that second had I felt such achievement. From that time on, my function was clear – to assist 1000’s of households in want of inexpensive housing,” says Vernon. “When landlords step as much as present housing to the underserved, everybody wins. The tenant receives important everlasting housing, the town retains households off the streets, and property house owners assure their money move by authorities lease vouchers.”

In response to statistics from the City Institute, actual property is the only funding sort that has created extra wealth than every other asset class, whereas minorities in America typically get excluded from this wealth-generating asset class.

“By marrying blockchain expertise and inexpensive housing, we are going to revitalize city areas from coast to coast, constructing a extra wholesome, livable, and sustainable society. It is not solely essential to do the work, but additionally to have the cultural empathy to offer a holistic method to community-building,” states Beatriz Durant, EquityCoin, Inc.’s Director of Property Administration.

“It was important that we construct an organization with executives and board administrators that truly characterize the communities we serve”, Vernon declared. In response to Deloitte’s Board Range Census Report, appointing girls and minority administrators gives advantages past simply demographics. Numerous administrators are “extra probably than White males to deliver expertise with company sustainability and socially accountable investing, authorities, gross sales and advertising, and expertise within the office to their boards. These expertise are on the forefront of development in a put up pandemic financial system and fewer than 55% of board members within the Fortune 500 report having any one in every of these expertise.”

Different core members of EquityCoin’s crew embody Akil Ash, a Venmo alumni who has helped develop a few of the world’s hottest apps; Beatriz Durant, a pacesetter in Vitality and Environmental Design with 14 years as a property supervisor; Michael McConnell, a group developer with 15 years of expertise constructing social networks; and eventually, Jey Van Sharp, a company technique veteran, by way of MyÜberLife Consulting, who has helped develop manufacturers like Diesel, Cartier, Pepsi, Neuehouse, and UNIQLO.

“As an Afro-Nativo Venezuelan who grew up in Brooklyn, I perceive the extreme disenfranchisement of Black and brown folks as regards to investing and homeownership. Possession and freedom go hand in hand. Extra particularly, EquityCoin is aware of we may have no equality with out fairness. EquityCoin is happy to have an funding car that gives a path for Black and brown folks to personal and have fairness into probably the most basic asset in America: the house,” says board member Jey Van-Sharp.

To assist streamline the tokenization course of for different actual property operators, EquityCoin can also be creating a secondary market referred to as EquityShare that logically processes the phrases and situations of actual property fairness contracts for execution on the Ethereum blockchain. At present, the typical trade interval of actual property is 30 days, though EquityCoin goals to cut back that to 30 seconds.

For extra details about EquityCoin’s mission, go to EquityCoin.org.

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SOURCE EquityCoin, Inc.