This report applies the national heirs’ property SROI framework to Philadelphia, using city-level and Pennsylvania statewide housing and legal cost assumptions to estimate the prospective value of resolving residential heirs’ property (often called tangled title) cases. The analysis indicates consistently positive returns across outcome categories, with the largest value generated through avoided foreclosure and lost revenues from prevented sale of the asset.
This analysis estimates that every dollar invested in heirs’ property interventions could yield between $3 and $63 in societal benefits. For individual families, the potential financial benefits range from $18,000 to $444,000, depending on the family’s financial goals and the outcomes of its case.
Taken together, the results suggest positive returns across all outcomes, with SROIs reflecting underlying variation in local housing market conditions, foreclosure risk, and household financial dynamics across the city.
