by Maggie Walker CLT | Jun 5, 2017 | News
Today, the Maggie Walker Community Land Trust (MWCLT) broke ground in Church Hill on the first home in Richmond designed to remain affordable in perpetuity. The 1600 square foot, 3 bedroom home is being built through a partnership with project:HOMES, and funded, in...
by Maggie Walker CLT | Jun 5, 2017 | News
The Maggie Walker Community Land Trust breaks ground on the first of four houses in Church Hill. Church Hill resident and homeowner Freda Bolling says that because of rising costs in housing, the rent for her former apartment is now higher than her current mortgage...
by Maggie Walker CLT | Jun 5, 2017 | News
A community land trust doesn’t sound particularly exciting, but it will have far more lasting consequences for the Richmond area than the latest flap over “covfefe” or a D-list comic’s publicity stunt. Church Hill soon will be home to the first house built and sold...
by Maggie Walker CLT | Jun 2, 2017 | News
A new-to-Richmond approach to facilitating homeownership while adding to the city’s housing stock is beginning to take shape in North Church Hill. The nonprofit Maggie Walker Community Land Trust celebrated the groundbreaking of its first single-family home at a...
by Maggie Walker CLT | Jun 2, 2017 | News
Richmond’s Church Hill neighborhood is home base for the area’s first Maggie Walker Community Land Trust house for workforce housing. “The purpose of a land trust is to create affordable housing in perpetuity,” Laura Lafayette, chairwoman of the Maggie Walker...
