Homestead Community Land Trust

About Homestead

Homestead Community Land Trust addresses housing insecurity, displacement and the wealth gap by making and keeping for-sale homes affordable to current and future generations. Homestead builds new homes and rehabs existing homes, raising funds to price these homes affordably for first time homebuyers who make less than 80% of area median income as defined by HUD. We keep homes affordable in partnership with buyers through the community land trust model.

Homestead’s origins in the activist community are reflected today in a joint staff-Board initiative to deepen the expression of racial and social equity in all aspects of our work. Building on strengths in democratic governance and decision-making and a core mission to redress housing inequity, Homestead seeks team members who value inclusion and are committed to addressing racism, sexism and other forms of oppression in our work and community.

Working within the framework of a Just Transition to a New Economy, our approach is

• shifting economic control of land to community,
• democratizing wealth through residential ownership in a member-governed CLT; and
• driving racial justice and social equity by putting homeownership within reach of people shut out of ownership by the legacy of discrimination.