The Oakland Community Land Trust is dedicated to the perpetual affordability & stewardship of land & housing for, & with, low-income Oakland residents.
What is a Community Land Trust? A CLT is a not-for-profit organization that owns the land to ensure long-term housing affordability and it is what allowed our ambassador to become a homeowner!
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#HousingJustice
Preserve the Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program! “This intervention comes in before people are completely priced out of the community before they live on the streets, where interventions are extremely costly,” Goldberg said. @CAgovernor https://t.co/HGCqF9FyBB
🆕 Together with the Common Counsel Foundation, we're thrilled to announce the launch of the Community Ownership for Community Power (COCP) Fund, a bold $22M philanthropic initiative that addresses the housing crisis in CA.
Learn more: https://t.co/XLcB9zFRM4
Happening in less than an hour...come through!!! Pathways to Tenant & Community Control: Financing Strategies for Community Land Trusts | LISC @SF_CLT@LISCInstitute https://t.co/mcyKk3sRBB
Join us 10/21 for a conversation with @LISCBayArea@oakclt and @SF_CLT on how to build power and secure resources to expand tenant and community control of housing! Register here: https://t.co/k0bHacDvaU
The Rev. Charles Sherrod, a front-line warrior for civil rights who became the first field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, died Oct. 11 at his home in Albany, Ga. He was 85. https://t.co/bV6pIYY4wp
All of @GroundedNetwork is incredibly sad to learn of the passing of #communitylandtrust model founder, New Communities leader and Civil Rights Movement icon; Rev. Charles Sherrod. His great legacy lives on in our work & the communities we serve. https://t.co/nMZNzhJCvt
🔥🔥🔥Alex Acuna @oakclt "arming the community with difficult-to-find public information allows people to learn about buildings with negligent owners and possibly acquire those properties to keep them permanently affordable" https://t.co/cHR9PtjgmO
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Corporate landlords often hide behind complex networks of LLCs and LPs to avoid accountability while they push out low-income tenants of color. Our tool #Evictorbook pulls back the curtain to show who is really driving the region’s housing crisis https://t.co/cHR9PtjgmO
Residents of @saveuctownhomes in Philadelphia are fighting to save their homes from gentrification and redevelopment.
"Over the years, I've seen what was invested into our community slowly stripped away from us," says resident leader and organizer Rasheda Alexander.
NEW: A House investigation into Invitation Homes and three other major corporate landlords found that the companies filed evictions against nearly 15,000 residents while the federal moratorium was in place — three times the number previously known. https://t.co/ZqMeIiIkHB