About 70% of U.S. households own their own homes, and yet, almost no household insured by the accident at the cost of housing. There is a market for insurance products, equity protection, which would provide this protection? Focuses on the process of financial innovation in the not-for-profit sector through the experience of NeighborWorks America and its pilot program offers insurance on equity for the citizens of Syracuse, New York. How should the product be developed? Maybe the pilot program will be expanded to a national scale? There are non-profit and public sector institutional framework right to offer this product? How should it be measured, and that the financial reserves necessary for the product? "Hide
by Laura Winig, William Gottsmannom Source: Harvard Business School 17 pages. Publication Date: June 23, 2006. Prod. #: 206110-PDF-ENG