Family Homesteads With Tangled Titles Are Contributing to Rural America’s Housing Crisis

Family Homesteads With Tangled Titles Are Contributing to Rural America’s Housing Crisis

This story was originally published by The Conversation. Imagine your parents leave you and your siblings a share of land that’s been in your family for generations. Several of your relatives already live on the land, and you’d like to do the same; but you can’t get a loan to build or renovate a home without permission from all the relatives who also share ownership. And at any moment, another heir could sell their share, triggering a court-orde…