EQUITY e-newsletter: August 2006

Community Land Trusts: Ensuring Permanently Affordable, Accessible Homeownership

Community Land Trusts: Creating Permanently Affordable Housing for All

Colin Bloch, Burlington Community Land Trust Homeownership Director, illustrates the Community Land Trust concept that is sweeping the nation and providing opportunities for people with disabilities to achieve the dream of owning their own home.

Northern California Land Trust: Making the Impossible, Possible

An affordable, accessible home in Northern California? Think it is a dream? NCLT is proving that Community Land Trusts are making it possible for low-income people with disabilities to become homeowners in one of the highest cost housing areas in the country.

Winning the Lottery

Persistence and planning- not luck- allowed Laura to feel like she won the lottery. For five years, she has defied the odds and become one of the ten percent of people with disabilities that own their own homes. Now, she is president of the board of the Portland Community Land Trust, ensuring that others like her can experience her good fortune.

Ten Characteristics of the Classic Community Land Trust

Burlington Associates for Community Development

EQUITY Responds: Answers to common questions received from either the Asset Building Community or the Disability Community

What is "Limited Equity"?