Crowdfunding for investors may soon get easier

[...] developer Ben Miller says, until now, it’s been impossible for local people to invest in development right across the street.

“Who owns your environment? You don’t know,” he says. “Who’s building your environment, who’s building your city? Not you.”

Miller is co-founder of the group Fundrise, which has started selling shares of private real estate projects to the public online. [...]

First they bought 1351 H Street with private capital, then crowdfunded about a third of it. — marketplace.org