Trust Neighborhoods

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We’re a nonprofit supporting residents with setting up mixed-income neighborhood trusts that prevent displacement and advance community-driven investment through the Mixed-Income Neighborhood Trust (MINT) model. MINTs allow neighborhoods to benefit from the investment of private capital in a portfolio of new and rehabbed rental housing that is legally mandated to remain affordable. The neighborhood organizations that Trust Neighborhoods partner with remain involved in the governance of the MINT. Trust Neighborhoods has supported 2 MINTs to date, in Kansas City and Tulsa, and is working to expand nationally in 2021.

We’re driven by what this work can mean for residents in the neighborhoods we serve. This is reflected in our stated values, in the way we approach our work, and in the way we check in on ourselves against these values: 1) Trust neighborhoods; 2) Get proximate; 3) Embrace learning for ourselves and others; 4) Be intentional about process; 5) Cultivate our playground. We regularly check back both on how we are living up to them, and how they need to be updated. We hope and expect that these are values that are an important part of a Fellow’s experience, and that our own understanding of how we can best live them and update them is something you will be a part of with us, from being proximate with residents in neighborhoods, to investing in feedback, to truly trusting neighborhoods with their own futures.

Our mission:

We support long discriminated against neighborhoods in revitalizing their communities without sacrificing affordability and belonging

Our vision

A new class of diverse, mixed-income neighborhoods that promote opportunity for everyone

Our work

A new tool for existing neighborhood-based organizations: the Mixed-Income Neighborhood Trust (MINT)