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Concerns over the potential loss of land in the town began almost immediately.

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $20 million to Vermont’s largest affordable housing owner and manager, Champlain Housing Trust. Scott’s charitable giving organization, Yield Giving,...

Born of the Civil Rights Movement, community land trusts are working to preserve neighborhoods and create new homeowners, from New York to California.

A nonprofit land trust buys the dirt and buyers pay notably less for a home. They also agree to keep the selling price low and maintain the area’s affordability standards.

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Makeisha Robey grew up in a three-bedroom house and always wanted to provide the same for her children

Makeisha Robey grew up in a three-bedroom house and always wanted to provide the same for her children

In response to rising rents and housing prices across the city, a coalition of Indianapolis organizations has begun to look for unconventional ways to keep housing permanently affordable.

The nonprofits offer homes at low rates, but in exchange buyers have to give up some of the equity they would typically build up with a standard mortgage. That allows the trusts to offer homes to more people.

Solving the housing crisis in North Idaho is not an unattainable goal. It may be a "BHAG" — a "big hairy audacious goal" — but those who are working to accomplish this feat realize it will take collaboration, communication and innovative ways of doing things to arrive at outcomes desirable for the whole community.