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Financing Receivables, Troubled Debt Restructuring Loans, Threshold For Impairment Evaluation

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Funding Commitment Liability

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Payments For Redemption Of Common Stock

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Ratio applied to the conversion of debt instrument into equity with equity shares divided by debt principal amount.

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The total amount of dividends declared in the period for each class of stock and the contractual amount of dividends (or interest on participating income bonds) that must be paid for the period (for example, unpaid cumulative dividends). Dividends declared in the current period do not include dividends declared in respect of prior-period unpaid cumulative dividends. Preferred dividends that are cumulative only if earned are deducted only to the extent that they are earned.

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The equity interest of noncontrolling shareholders, partners or other equity holders in consolidated entity.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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Number of reporting units tested for impairment of goodwill. A reporting unit is an operating segment or one level below an operating segment.

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Additional Information (Details)		12 Months Ended
	Jul. 09, 2021 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($) reporting_unit segment	Dec. 31, 2021 USD ($)
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Debt Instrument, convertible, conversion ratio		1
Number of operating segments \| segment		1
Number of reportable segments \| segment		1
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Participation interest in loan pool		5.00%
Nonaccrual loans, threshold for impairment evaluation		$ 50,000
Troubled debt restructuring receivables, threshold for impairment evaluation		$ 50,000
Number of reporting units \| reporting_unit		1
Funding commitments		$ 20,400,000	$ 22,749,000
Payments For Redemption Of Common Stock	$ 192,300,000
Distributed Earnings		$ 2,700,000
Class C common stock; $0.0001 par value; 65,000,000 shares authorized; 47,287,370 and 47,595,455 issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Debt Instrument, convertible, conversion ratio		1
Sunlight Financial LLC
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Noncontrolling interest percent	34.90%	35.90%	35.00%
Residential Solar Loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Participation interest in loan pool		5.00%	5.00%