Press & Announcements
Vesi is a recognized pioneer in shared-equity models and perpetual purpose trusts designed to build lasting community wealth. Explore our latest announcements and media coverage on how we are shifting the narrative on housing and community stewardship.
Official Press Releases
Vesi in the News
How Can a Perpetual Purpose Trust Build Community? – Nonprofit Quarterly
De Simone Pioneers Shared-Equity Housing in Trenton – Trenton Journal
Redlining Democracy: April De Simone on The Chavis Chronicles
Vesi founder April De Simone joins Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. on The Chavis Chronicles to explore how housing policies, appraisal biases, and historic disinvestment continue to shape modern economic redlining. In this insightful discussion, De Simone highlights Vesi’s market-driven, purpose-centered approach to asset acquisition—including perpetual purpose trusts and grassroots "living room talks"—designed to dismantle systemic barriers, preserve land, and build equitable, community-first pathways to home ownership.
Reframing Equity: April De Simone’s Keynote at the 2024 Smart Growth Summit
In this powerful keynote address at Smart Growth America’s 2024 Summit, Vesi founder April De Simone moves beyond high-level statistics to examine the lived reality of spatial inequity in America. Tracing the historical lineage of redlining, urban renewal, and appraisal bias from her upbringing in the Bronx to present-day Trenton, De Simone challenges the urban planning and real estate sectors to dismantle the "hierarchy of human value." She shares the personal catalyst behind launching Vesi, including her own fight against modern-day economic redlining, and makes the case for courageous, community-centered models like perpetual purpose trusts to protect housing, preserve local culture, and truly desegregate our built environment.