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Summer 2009

Inside this issue: Celebrating the Grand Opening of Columbus United Cooperative California Co-op Conference in August SFCLT in the News Renew you Membership with SFCLT

San Francisco Community Land Trust was proud to celebrate the Grand Opening of Columbus United Cooperative San Francisco’s first Community Land Trust/Limited-Equity Housing Coop on June 16th, 2009

This limited-equity housing coop is an important success story in a neighborhood where few residents are able to own a home.

In 2005, the San Francisco Community Land Trust was approached about working with the tenants of the building, who were fighting to save their homes from demolition. With the help of the Asian Law Caucus and Chinatown Community Development Center, the tenants organized to fight the eviction. Through an extensive process of community collaboration, the Land Trust secured public and private financing to purchase the building and has worked with the residents and community partners to rehabilitate and convert the building into a resident-controlled, limited-equity housing cooperative – an alternative form of homeownership in which the Land Trust owns the land while the residents own shares in the residential cooperative. The rehabilitation of this historic building is now complete, with the Asian Law Caucus owning their commercial space, SFCLT occupying office space below, and 21 households making their homes in the apartments above.

Here is a snapshot of the fabulous Grand Opening event for Columbus United Cooperative on Tuesday June 16, 2009…

California Co-op Conference: Last Week to Register!

SFCLT In the News

The word is out! Several local media outlets and independent journalists have done some great reporting about the important work of the San Francisco Community Land Trust. Go to our website to see a short video made by local independent video journalist, Cassidy Friedman. Also, on our website is a recent article from the San Francisco Chronicle about Columbus United Cooperative and the work of SFCLT. Check it all out at www.sfclt.org

Renew your membership with SFCLT!

Many of you are on our membership list, but have not renewed your dues in many years. Now is the time! We need your support to help build our organization and the movement to create more limited equity housing cooperatives on community owned land in San Francisco.

If you have never been a member, now is the time! Becoming a member of SFCLT means that you can vote in our annual Board of Directors elections, serve on SFCLT committees (project, outreach and organizing, policy, education and fundraising), and receive free trainings on Community Land Trusts and Housing Cooperatives.

Membership dues are only $24/year for an individual or $80/yr for an organization. Please go to our website and join or renew your dues now! www.sfclt.org