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Affordable Housing Forever Nonprofits that purchase land, build homes on it and sell them below market rate are giving low-income buyers a chance. By Michael Friedrich April 15, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit...Monica Garwood If anyone knows how gentrification has displaced Black working-class residents in Atlanta, it’s Makeisha Robey, a preschool teacher. During her two decades living in the city, she has watched affordable apartment complexes vanish as new developments arise and wealthier, white residents move in. After being priced out of renting in a series of neighborhoods, Ms. Robey, a 43-...

Article content Calvin councillors Heather Olmstead and Dean Grant were recently cited in individual reports by integrity commissioner, E4M or Expertise for Municipalities, for contravening their municipality’s code of conduct. Recommended sanctions against Olmstead, including that she issue a formal apology, failed to pass during a March 9 council meeting. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Grant, meanwhile, has since resigned from council citing a “toxic work environment.” A decision on whether Grant’s recommended sanctions, being a two-mon...

Allison Needles: What is a Community Land Trust? And could one help with Tacoma's homelessness crisis? News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 12/18/2020 Allison Needles, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.) Dec. 18—When Tacoma Housing Now took over vacant Gault Middle School in November to shelter unhoused people, the action came with a list of demands. The most prominent of them insisted on making Gault, which has sat vacant for a decade, part of a Community Land Trust, also called a CLT. That same demand fueled the housing advocacy group to block traffic and pitch a tent in the middle ...