Find out more about community land trusts here, and RISE, of which Katie Colling is the vice president.
Katie Colling, Pushing for Community Land Trusts
“I know that when we talk about affordable housing and gentrification we get overwhelmed. We think we don’t have solutions that we can grasp onto and support. But I want you to know that we do …. consensus-based housing communities is a completely viable option, putting property into community land trusts so it holds those properties out of the market so that they’re not being victim to market forces. These are things we can do in our community locally to help people in poverty.”