Community Land Trusts: Preserving Affordable Housing

Text/Chat from Session

00:20:34 Events 1: Thank you all for joining this session!  Please put your questions for the panelists here in the chat.

00:27:33 Jerry Poje: Could the panelists recommend good sources of ‘model community land trust programs’ across the country?

00:32:14 Jerry Poje: Ginger, if you have time, please add a web reference to the 11thSt. Bridge project.  How did you initiated the community dialogue?

00:36:58 Grayce Wiggins, City of Takoma Park: So true!!!

00:38:54 Jerry Poje: Hopefully we’ll all gain access to dense PowerPoint presentations that require more time to absorb : >)

00:39:53 Ginger Rumph: 11th St Bridge Park: https://bbardc.org/the-park/

00:40:25 Jerry Poje: Thanks, Ginger!

00:43:23 Jerry Poje: Advice?  I live in a nearby county where we just produced a county preservation task force report.  https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/housing/preservation-task-force  How do we best expand the Community Land Trust possibilities?

00:50:58 Jerry Poje: I live in an owned home (30 yr mortgage paid) in a neighborhood rapidly gentrifying: so much that my spouse and I if newly starting out would not be able to afford the home where we raised our only child.  She now lives in Tucson, in part, because she could not afford to move back into the county where she received a high-end education that extended to a generous college education.  Are there Land Trust models that we might encourage, before age and decrepitude forces us to transfer resale to greedy, assisted living corporations?

00:52:37 Tony Pickett: Please see our Grounded Solutions website for CLT tools and resources, our staff also hosts educational webinars which are posted there as well - https://groundedsolutions.org/

00:53:02 Jerry Poje: Thanks, Tony!

00:59:27 Jerry Poje: Panelists and moderator, do we have an estimate for the number, trends and sustainability of CLTs?  How many are on the forefront of racial equity?

01:03:13 Jerry Poje: Many thanks, Tony.  Please share a reference for the ground-breaking study.

01:04:17 Ginger Rumph: Here is the GSN-LLI study:https://groundedsolutions.org/new-study-evaluates-shared-equity-housing-program-performance-nationwide-impact

01:04:24 Jerry Poje: Might we establish a benchmark for how localities are on the bow-wave of racial equity thru CLTs and/or other mechanisms?

01:05:29 Jerry Poje: Many thanks, Ginger, for your quick research.

01:13:48 Jerry Poje: Many thanks, organizers, moderator and panelists for a terrific session.  On the larger spectrum of supporting “Affordable/Accessible Homes for All,” CLTs and similar mechanisms must become more cemented into a community betterment model.  Thanks for lending your passion and wisdom.

01:14:03 Events 1: Thank you all for joining this session!