Posts tagged Community Land Trust
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Can community land trusts help solve Virginia’s housing crisis?
Community land trusts (CLTs), nonprofit corporations that hold land communally and can buy lots, develop housing, and keep it affordable indefinitely, continue to grow in Virginia. How effective will they be in solving the state’s housing crisis? Keep reading…
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This Congress Heights housing will be permanently affordable
After two years of independently led organizing, the residents of Savannah Apartments are finally able to secure permanent affordability for their homes. When their building was put on the market in 2017, Tiffany Jessup and her fellow residents worked together to independently purchase the building. Keep reading…
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Anacostia is using a land trust to maintain affordable housing
Change is coming rapidly to DC neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River, and Anacostia in particular has seen rapidly-rising housing prices. The newly-designed 11th Street Bridge Park, almost certain to become a city-wide attraction like New York’s High Line, is also likely to further increase land and housing prices in the area. Keep reading…