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Community Land Trusts. Implementation in North St. Louis in collaboration with Old North St. Louis Restoration Group. Challenges of inner city neighborhoods for CDCs. Role of representing the community in terms of development Which members to represent - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Implementation in North St. Louis in Implementation in North St. Louis in collaboration with Old North St. Louis collaboration with Old North St. Louis
Restoration GroupRestoration Group
Challenges of inner city neighborhoods for CDCs
Role of representing the community in terms of development
Which members to represent
Economic growth often shuts out certain people (gentrification)
Which neighborhoods
Lasalle Park - sponsored by philanthropic corporation
Murphy/Cass - Tenant Management Associations
Wash U and SLU development around medical schools - large institutional sponsor
Forest Park Southeast/Tower Grove- development companies associate w/non-profits
Perspectives on development New “model town” view
Control by outsiders
Diversity discouraged
Housing must be beautiful and expensive to ensure “luxury” prices
Upper middle class working people only
Ex. Pullman Company Towns
“Urban Village” view
Control by insiders
Diversity embraced
Housing may or may not be beautiful but it is affordable
Interest in community programs and services
Mixed income residents
Ex. Dudley Neighborhood in Boston
Encouraging “Urban Village” development
Important to ensure affordable housing in neighborhood and ensure diverse community involvement:
Tax credits (subsidized housing)/Mixed Income Housing
Hope VI
Public Housing
Co-ops
Community Land Trusts
Why community land trusts? Increase supply of
permanently affordable housing
Increase real estate equity savings among residents
Encourage developers to participate in affordable housing
Why community land trusts?
Returns abandoned real estate and vacant land to tax rolls
Enhances and collaborates community development programs
Facilitates partnerships between residents, businesses, non-profits and area developers
Why community land trusts?
A win-win situation for all stakeholders
Creates incentive for people to stay in community, not flip or leave them behind
Sense of belonging
Political force
Camden, NJ
Started through affordable housing activists during a power fight with the City
Used co-op method in order to retain long-term control of land by co-op
Bought property where knew speculators would try to buy
Ensured less looting of construction sites by hiring local workforce
Boston, MA - Dudley
Gained large amount of properties through eminent domain along with City granting properties to CLT
Used Community Land Trust as their mechanism
150 homes in CLT
Holyoke, MA
CDC formed b/c city plan to industrialize residential area to protect residents against absentee landlords
Represents a “resettlement” model of a CLT, rather than a “displacement” model
Community Steps toward a CLT
Community survey on land control
Community meetings explaining CLT concept
Form working groups
Elect members to committees
Committee elects board
Community Steps toward a CLT
Alternative would be to just create an advisory board within ONSL
ONSL board, seeing that there is obvious community interest, will meet to determine whether ONSL will split organization or carry a 2nd 501(c)(3)
Land trust agreement discussed by board meetings and signed
Community Steps toward a CLT
Board meeting discussion of articles of non profit incorporation and eventual filing with state
Raise money and acquire property
Work for “perpetually affordable housing programs on a state level”
Legal steps toward a CLT
ONSL board, seeing that there is obvious community interest, will meet to determine whether ONSL will split organization or carry a 2nd 501(c)(3)
501 (c)(3) set up using community input
Land trust agreement discussed by board meetings and signed
Determine how property will be provided to residents
Determine particulars of ground lease including how resale price agreements would work