Employer-sponsored homeownership · Pilot in California, 2026

Own Where You Work.

A shared-equity homeownership benefit for employers. The dollars you already spend on retention become a home your employee owns — and an appreciating asset on both sides.

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Built on a 15-year program that retained workers, kept them in proximity to their workplace, and grew capital at roughly 10% annually.

Why now

A new tool for an old problem.

Median home prices in much of the country are now five to six times median income, up from three times historically. Salary inflation burns cash. RSUs vest in four years. Neither builds a real bond between an employer and an employee — and neither helps a mid-career worker actually buy a home.

The Program is a different tool. An employer co-invests in the home an employee buys. The employee gets a path to ownership they couldn't otherwise reach. The employer gets an appreciating asset and a mortgage-length tether to a person they want to keep.

We are not replacing salary, RSUs, or 401(k) match. We are an additional tool in the comp toolkit — one that works twice.

How it works

The model, both sides.

A single home, two co-investors, one shared-equity agreement that sits alongside the mortgage. Both sides win — or share the loss — together.

For the employee

A home you couldn't otherwise reach.

1Your employer co-invests in the home you buy — closing the down payment gap that keeps most first-time buyers out.
2You own the home. You make the mortgage payments. You build equity with each one.
3When the home sells or refinances, you share a portion of the appreciation with your employer on terms set in plain language up front.

For the employer

Retention that builds an asset.

1You co-invest in a home alongside the employee — capital deployment, not pure expense.
2The asset appreciates on your balance sheet for as long as the employee lives in the home.
3The mortgage becomes a 30-year tether — structurally longer than any RSU vest or annual bonus cycle.

A shared-equity agreement, written in plain English, defines the split and the buyout terms — for the duration of the mortgage, and beyond it.

Track record

Built on fifteen years of evidence.

Steadwell Partners is launching publicly in 2026, but the model is not new. It is drawn from a fifteen-year program that put working people into homes near where they worked — and turned employer capital into an appreciating asset, year over year.

Operating history

15yrs

The underlying program has been running, refining, and learning for fifteen years before this launch.

Capital growth

~10% / yr

Average annual appreciation on the employer's capital across the program's history.

Retention & proximity

Yes.

Workers stayed longer, lived closer, and kept their roots in the communities they worked in.

Underlying-program figures shown above. Pilot-cohort data for the Steadwell Partners Program will be published as it accrues. We will not report numbers we cannot yet stand behind.

For the employee

If you could buy a home on your own, you probably would.

The market doesn't make that easy anymore. Steadwell Partners is a different way in — but it is not a free one. Your employer co-invests in your home, which means a portion of the appreciation is shared.

There is a trade-off here, and we want you to understand it before you sign anything. If that sounds like the kind of partner you want walking you through the biggest financial decision of your life, we'd like to meet you.

The Program runs through employers. If your company is not yet enrolled and you'd like them to be, the list below is where to say so.

About

A small team, a long horizon.

Steadwell Partners is a small team building on a fifteen-year shared-equity homeownership program. We come from inside that program, so we know which parts of the model work at scale and which parts depended on subsidy — and we are designing the private-sector version with both eyes open.

We are Steadwell Partners, Inc., headquartered in California, launching in our home state in 2026 and expanding from there. Names of founders and team members will be added here as the pilot opens to employers.

Alignment over upside We do not structure deals where the employer wins and the employee loses. If a contract compromises the employee's position, we walk away.
Patience over volume A 30-year benefit deserves a careful first year. We will say "not yet" out loud when we mean it.
Plain terms over fine print One-page summaries. Plain-English clauses. In-person walkthroughs of anything an employee signs.
Long horizon over quarterly We measure success when mortgages mature, not at year-end board meetings.

Where we are right now

A new company, built on a proven idea.

Steadwell Partners is in pilot phase. We are launching in California in 2026 and beginning conversations with public-sector employers — town and city governments, school districts, public utilities — about being part of the first cohort. A small number of private-sector partners are in those conversations too.

We are being deliberate on purpose. The underlying program took fifteen years to learn what we know now, and we would rather get the first cohort right than the biggest cohort fast.

If you are an employer curious about being part of the first cohort, or an employee who would like to see this come to your workplace, we want to hear from you. The list below is where to start.

Launching California, 2026

First cohort Public sector

Expanding NV, AZ, OR, CO by 2027