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Groups like United Workers (members shown here at a 2018 rally) were instrumental in campaigning to create the city s Affordable Housing Trust Fund and pressuing the city to fund it. Now, the fund has made its first awards to community land trusts a key pillar in Baltimore activists vision for development without displacement. (Photo courtesy United Workers) Sometime later this year, or early next, the South Baltimore Community Land Trust will cut the ribbon on its first project: eight new, energy-efficient housing units behind Benjamin Franklin High School, sold to people in the Curtis Bay neighborhood who earn less than 50 percent of the area median Income, and kept affordable in perpetuity through community control of land. Like other land trusts, the SBCLT will maintain ownership of the land underlying the new homes and sell the improvements to low-income buyers. When those buyers decide to move out, they’ll split any equity they may have built with the land trust, which w

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