Greg: Keep your Muhamed Ali signature for a future fundraiser/silent auction for the Minneapolis CLT! (Only half-joking...)
You point to a great issue: where are we going to get the capital to make this happen? Not exactly sure, but here are a few thoughts: The same place that other housing developers go: MCDA, MHFA, Empowerment Zone, etc. We assume that there are ways that we can partner with folks that are already developing projects with units targeted at limited income homeownership. In those projects, what we bring is the opportunity to preserve the initial investment for the long term. We need to do a lot more research and conversing to figure out how this will happen. The key is that we do not assume that the CLT will be doing all of its own development, unlike the case with the Rondo Community Land Trust in St. Paul. We do, however, believe that we can also attract new resources to affordable housing through this model, because people, churches, foundations, will see that the investment they make to make a unit affordable will keep the unit affordable. Cara Letofsky Gregory Luce wrote: >Hey, a question for Cara and/or others: > >It seems the biggest obstacle to establishing a CLT is the same that dogs any other >housing proposal: capital. Where do you get the capital to purchase land, rehab a >property, build a new one, etc.? I suspect the same as anywhere else but would love >to hear about how PRG/Seward and others involved in the Minneapolis effort are >approaching this. > >Also, commenting on myself: > >Gregory Luce wrote: > >I'll wager my most treasured knick knack that most families, in an incredibly tight >market or in a distressed neighborhood (or both), would take affordability and >ownership anyday over wealth-building through home equity, if that was the ultimate >choice. >------ > >To whom shall I send my 1977 autograph of Muhammad Ali, signed on the back of my >dad's personal check? > >I think I should have said that most low-income families would take home-ownership >sooner (through a CLT) than a fading hope for home-ownership later when the market or >their circumstances may finally allow them to purchase. Push comes to shove, I bet >most folks would prefer outright traditional home-ownership with the potential to >build more significant equity that way. > >Gregory Luce >North Phillips (work) > >North Phillips Press is a publication of Project 504, >a housing related neighborhood organization based in >the Phillips neighborhood. >_______________________________________ >Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy >Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: >http://e-democracy.org/mpls > > _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
