??Happy Tuesday folks! We're thrilled to announce a capacity building campaign to preserve and restore our East Bay communities through community-controlled housing. It's labor-intensive work and we need your support to a sustain a healthy, grounded, and liberating space of belonging for future generations! We're deeply grateful for a generous $75,000 gift from US Bank to kick off the campaign. See the official press release for more:?https://lnkd.in/gUQXKTwU For more opportunities to join us in person this summer — including a Board Fundraiser with live music and original artwork, an International Cooperative Day Social Hour, and a BACLT Neighborhood Tour — check out our campaign page: https://lnkd.in/gTMBPmHp We hope to see you this summer!
Bay Area Community Land Trust
民间和社会团体
Berkeley，CA 170 位关注者
Cooperatively owned, limited equity, multi-family housing, on urban land that is permanently owned by a CLT.
关于我们
The Bay Area Community Land Trust (BACLT) creates & supports cooperative home ownership for low and moderate income communities. Cooperatively owned, limited equity, multi-family housing, on urban land that is permanently owned by a community land trust (CLT), allows low and moderate income families to enjoy the benefits of home ownership in a setting of maximum energy efficiency. We contribute to sustainable living by facilitating the sharing of resources - reducing the carbon footprint by sharing appliances, common spaces and transportation. We also promote green building, retrofitting and weatherizing, conversion to solar energy, and urban agriculture. And the co-op model itself promotes personal and group responsibility for the environment and provides institutions through which urban dwellers can promote environmental consciousness in their surroundings through example, advocacy, and participation in community projects.
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https://bayareaclt.org
Bay Area Community Land Trust的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 民间和社会团体
- 规模
- 11-50 人
- 总部
- Berkeley，CA
- 类型
- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 2006
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获取路线
PO Box
US，CA，Berkeley，94702
Bay Area Community Land Trust员工
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Matt Gustafson
Director of Strategic Development at Bay Area Community Land Trust
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Noah Compo
Cooperative Housing / Non-Profit Management / Community Organizing & Support
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Jasmine Sozi
Community Advocate | Clinical Program Manager | Board Member
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Rebecca Orozco
Full-Spectrum Doula | Facilitator | Program Management | Operations & Administrative Specialist | Community Organizer
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How can we build a world where everyone, regardless of background, finds not just housing but a lasting home defined by affordability, safety, and joy? Communities where housing is collectively owned, democratically run, and permanently affordable? It starts with community, with coming together and uniting around the ties that bind us as neighbors, as humans, as family. It takes our love and our labor to deliver this kind of world. And as we build and steward this community it's essential for us to ensure folks most impacted, with most at stake, are in a central position to shape everything we do. BACLT recently held our annual member meeting, bringing together 60+ residents, members, and new folks to break bread, learn what we've been up to this year, and make collective decisions. BACLT residents were the largest group in attendance and five residents presented about their experiences and challenges. Our membership recently elected 3 new residents to our full, majority-BIPOC, majority-women board, and a dozen new members have joined in the past month. And our Co-op Program Manager, on staff since July, is first and foremost a BACLT resident! This year we've already seen the transformative power and positive influence of intentionally bringing residents more into the center. It's shaping and strengthening how we do the work. We're thrilled that the movement and community we are creating together is alive, and it is growing!
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HOUSING JUSTICE STORIES IN THE BAY: Last week we had the pleasure of visiting our new grantee of our Ambassador-led grants program, Bay Area Community Land Trust (BACLT)! We visited two sites—one of which is a rental building that was going up for sale. The tenants (10 units) were worried about what would happen to them if the building was sold, and feared they would all be forced to move out. One of the tenants found BACLT and talked to them about options for a community purchase of the building. BACLT told the tenant that he needed to get the support of at least 90% of the tenants in order for the land trust to get involved in purchasing the property. 100% of the tenants agreed to support the sale to BACLT and they are in negotiations to purchase the building now. The tenants will continue to be renters, and they will take on property management of the site. The 2nd site was purchased from the church next door (blue building). One of the tenants rented in the neighborhood for most of her adult life. She was living in some rough places, and when this housing opened a couple of years ago, she was thrilled to have been selected from the community land trust lottery to live here. Another young mother with her toddler also just moved in. She loves the community that this 8-unit rental building is providing. Two great #HousingJustice stories of keeping families safe and housed in South Berkeley! Visit https://okt.to/AdpT9u to learn more about our Housing Justice work in the #BayArea!
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Heartfelt congratulations to Sharron Watts-Brooks and the other Partners for the Bay's Future Fellows for completing their two year fellowship! Sharron played a key role in our community partnership with the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority's Preservation Team (BAHFA), which included BACLT, Urban Habitat and the Unity Council. We wish Sharron success in her next adventure!
Coro Northern California is proud to be the fellowship administrator for the Partnership for the Bay's Future - a collaborative effort to produce and preserve affordable homes, and protect tenants so the Bay Area remains a diverse place where everyone thrives. Congratulations to our Fellows for graduating yesterday and special thanks to the San Francisco Foundation and Enterprise Community Partners for their partnership in co-designing this innovative program.
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