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Community Land Trust
The Maggie Walker Community Land Trust (MWCLT) seeks to develop and steward permanently affordable housing opportunities to foster racially equitable communities in Richmond, Henrico, and Chesterfield, Virginia.
We are an alternative homeownership program that uses the Community Land Trust model. Our model helps people attain homeownership goals while keeping their homes affordable for other families in the future.
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Property in Richmond’s Church Hill becomes site for area’s first community land trust for workforce housing
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...
A look at the Maggie Walker Community Land Trust
The land trust, a nonprofit created in November, would acquire properties from the city and in turn would enter into a 99-year lease with property owners. The trust would own the land, but homeowners would own the structures. Trust officials say that makes the housing...
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MWCLT wants to help you make your dream of becoming a homeowner a reality. At the same time, our model has features that make it unique from traditional homeownership. Find out if MWCLT homeownership is right for you.
About Us
The Maggie Walker Community Land Trust (MWCLT) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that develops and stewards permanently affordable homeownership opportunities to foster racially equitable communities. Founded in 2016 by a coalition of affordable housing professionals and concerned citizens, our vision is that the communities of metropolitan Richmond will be inclusive, affordable, and healthy places to live. We are governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, made up of partners, community members, and our very own homeowners. MWCLT serves in in the City of Richmond and the Counties of Chesterfield and Henrico.
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