The public layer got broader, but also stricter

A lot of this week's work did not look like greenfield publishing. It looked like refreshes, duplicate kills, and under-review demotions. That is good. The fastest way to make the site noisy is to treat every intake record as if it deserves its own shiny public page.

The better rule is simpler: if the canonical page already exists, refresh it. If a new candidate is just a duplicate wrapper around the same official path, do not inflate the count. If the official material contradicts itself, move it to under review and say so in public.

• Pittsburgh URA down payment and closing cost assistance

  Now public with the actual two-track amount structure, lender submission timing, and forgiveness schedule.

• Denver metroDPA

  Now public with the baseline 2% to 3% structure, the Denver Advantage overlay, and the non-forgivable deferred-second framing.

• Choose Aurora

  Now public with the city loan, closing-cost help, and repair assistance broken into something a buyer can actually understand.

• Boise Homeownership Opportunity Program

  Now public with the deed-restricted option, reserve requirement, and referral path instead of a vague city summary.

• Frederick County HK4E

  Refreshed in place with the current combined amount, first-time-buyer rule, HR verification path, and repayment triggers.

• Boston First-Time Homebuyer Program

  Refreshed in place with the live portal, asset rule, lender path, and the current grant tiers.

The clearest recent example is Howard County SDLP. The landing page summarizes the program as one shared below-market deferred-loan structure, while the current regulations and April 2026 packet show product-specific terms, rates, and forgiveness schedules. That is not a detail nit. That is a public trust problem, so the old public page came down and the record moved to under review.

The same principle has already shown up in other places: Florida Hometown Heroes moved out of the live public set when the funding window closed, and several Maryland employee or county records had to be refreshed or merged instead of being counted as fresh wins.

Behind that public layer, the research inventory is still much larger at 455 tracked records. That is intentional. The public set should be the clean part, not the whole pile.

The next batch starts in Baltimore: employee homeownership, the first-time incentive program, Live Near Your Work, and the broader homeownership incentive path. That cluster is worth doing together because the pages overlap, the terminology is easy to blur, and the free layer gets more useful when the city package is coherent instead of half-published.

After that, Boston still has more work to do on the ownership side, especially the co-purchasing pilot. The general pattern is the same as before: keep promoting the pages that are strong enough, keep merging the ones that are fake duplicates, and keep public conflict notes visible when the rules do not line up.

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