Press release from Asheville-Buncombe Community Land Trust: The Asheville-Buncombe Community Land Trust (ABCLT) is pleased to announce its appointment of Anna Zuevskaya as the organization’s first Executive Director. Zuevskaya brings over six years of experience working in community organizing and affordable housing for established and emerging nonprofits in both Charlotte, NC, and Greenville, SC. Notably, … Read more

By Leah Douglas (original article published in The Nation) Driving the long, flat roads of Hilton Head Island is hypnotic. One bike-rental shop blends into another; countless villa-style office complexes advertise real-estate agents and banks. Tourists meander to their cars wearing all white, carrying brightly colored smoothies. Rows of palm trees wave slowly over the … Read more

By Trymaine Lee August 14, 2019 (article from NY Times)  Elmore Bolling, whose brothers called him Buddy, was a kind of one-man economy in Lowndesboro, Ala. He leased a plantation, where he had a general store with a gas station out front and a catering business; he grew cotton, corn and sugar cane. He also owned … Read more

Original Article from Framework, Published on May 6, 2019 Community land trust homeowners all seem to tell the same story. But it’s exciting every time you hear it. It goes like this: Before they bought their home through a community land trust, they struggled with high rents and instability. After, they had a home they could afford, the … Read more

(Article from Asheville Citizens Times) by Dillon Davis  Asheville City Council recommitted $1 million Tuesday to a new community land trust that will help the city and Buncombe County offer affordable housing and stave off the effects of neighborhood gentrification. Council unanimously voted to allocate the funding for the Asheville Buncombe Community Land Trust. It comes as … Read more