In Birmingham, 11 residents in the Bordesley area were given the chance to take part in a new-build
sweat equity scheme with According Housing Association.
Homebuyers will contribute significant
sweat equity toward the development of their units and/or the units of other homebuyers participating in the local self-help housing programs.
It is not a case of
sweat equity but a clear case of stinking corruption," Prasad said.
Day along with thousands of other New Yorkers who got down and dirty at city parks and volunteered their
sweat equity to beautify the boroughs.
With help - mostly
sweat equity - from friends and loved ones, and a small loan from the Venture Centre, they have managed to renovate the restaurant on their own.
Journalist Tom Brokaw's hymn of praise to South Dakota, small towns,
sweat equity, and family tells about "growing up in the American heartland in the Forties and Fifties," and takes readers from the author's birth in 1940 to 1962, when he "put (his) home state of South Dakota in a rearview mirror and drove away.
Then there's Mike's own sad site-specific work:
Sweat Equity, a wall he built as "art," which is a kind of real-estate version of Richard Serra's Tilted Arc, since to remove it would mean destroying it.
Self-build
sweat equity schemes, where people team up to create new homes, are not new.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julian Castro today awarded $10 million in
sweat equity grants to four non-profit self-help housing organizations which will create at least 540 affordable homes for hard-working, low-income families and individuals.
Earlier, there were reports that Sunanda may sell off her
sweat equity in the Kochi IPL franchise to avoid further scrutiny and unnecessary publicity.
In the Indian context,
sweat equity is similar but not identical to employee stock options (ESOPs).
And, with the requirement to put in
sweat equity, along with a fair price, this will not be a random building, but something the family can make into their home.
Liverpool Habitat for Humanity (LHFH) was praised for its "ingenious"
sweat equity scheme, that allows prospective home owners to physically help build their own home instead of paying a costly cash deposit.
