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In Eugene, Housing Advocates Call for a Tenant Right to Purchase Act
Housing advocates in Eugene, Oregon, are seeking to create a legislative framework that would allow tenants to collectively acquire multifamily buildings when a building comes up for sale.
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CLTs Go Commercial
The idea of turning the community land trust model into an economic development tool is attracting growing interest, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions about how it would work.
It’s All About Choice
Rather than just developing homes for sale, City of Lakes CLT lets buyers pick houses to bring into the land trust.
Mission: Accomplished
For the past five years, I have been involved with a project in Eastern Oregon in a town with a population of 3,310. The town is in a rural area […]
Can Lease-Purchase Save Us?
As developers struggle to find buyers for rehabbed affordable homes, many are looking to a lease-purchase model to expand the pool of potential owners. But lease-purchase is far more complicated than just an end-run around the credit crunch.
Bringing CLTs to Scale in Atlanta
To ensure affordable housing around the Atlanta BeltLine, the new Atlanta Land Trust Collaborative will balance citywide scale with local control of individual land trusts by existing CDCs.
Best of Both Worlds
Permanent affordability and asset building might seem at first blush to be contradictory goals for a low-income homeownership program, but new research says in fact they can be achieved together.
Stewardship Works
Community land trusts succeed in curing delinquencies and preventing foreclosures, and the numbers show it.
Investing In Community Land Trusts
Why have funders embraced CLTs? To answer that question, NHI interviewed 15 funders from 13 foundations whose scope ranges from local, to state, to regional and national.
A Model for All Markets?
In the past decade, community land trusts and other shared equity housing models have gained wider acknowledgement and acceptance as a means of creating and preserving affordable housing in communities with high property values. But by cultivating the long-term success of homeowners, these models are also bringing revitalization and stability to areas with weak markets and high foreclosures.
NSP Funding For CLTs Around the Country
Given the present realities of housing markets throughout the country and corresponding national efforts like the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP), it is an appropriate time to focus on the positive […]
Shared Equity Homeownership
This breakthrough study on shared equity homeownership—limited equity co-ops, community land trusts, and inclusionary units—examines the benefits of these models within a sectoral framework to redefine the housing ladder.
The Purchase of a Lifetime
The bank balked. Neighbors grumbled. But these poor tenants would not be swept away in the real estate boom.