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Community Home Trust Carrboro, NC

Community Home Trust Carrboro, NC. Mission: To create and maintain permanently affordable housing for the benefit of our community. About Community Home Trust. We began using the community land trust (CLT) model in 2000 Purpose was to enable homes to be permanently affordable

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Community Home Trust Carrboro, NC

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  1. Community Home TrustCarrboro, NC Mission: To create and maintain permanently affordable housing for the benefit of our community.

  2. About Community Home Trust • We began using the community land trust (CLT) model in 2000 • Purpose was to enable homes to be permanently affordable • Homes are conveyed using a 99-year ground lease

  3. Balance owner /community needs • Homes must be resold to low-income buyers • Homeowners pay down bank mortgages • Homeowners earn 1.5% annual appreciation

  4. Our Buyers • Target market is 60% to 80% of median income ($30K to $50K) • Primary buyers are public sector employees; 48% are UNC, UNCH or public school employees

  5. Our Buyers • Average income = $36,430 • Young singles, retirees, single parents and traditional families • Average age = 37

  6. Inclusionary Housing • The Town of Chapel Hill requires 15% affordable units • Affordable homes are to be permanently affordable • Community Home Trust implements the Town’s policy

  7. Our Homes • As of September 2011 – 194 homes in affordable housing inventory; 171 of which are in Chapel Hill • 36 single family homes • 89 townhomes • 69 condominiums • Home prices range from $80,000 to $140,000

  8. Our Organization • Operating budget is $665,000 • $385,500 from local governments • 8 full-time employees

  9. What is Success? • The affordable homes “work” for current residents, for surrounding neighborhood and for future residents • Market-rate property values are not diminished by the affordable homes

  10. A Home Trust homeowner with her three children. Elizabeth works at a local nonprofit organization.

  11. A Home Trust homeowner and her children. She tells us her life has flourished since becoming a homeowner.

  12. This family lives in a townhome in Chapel Hill. John served on the Home Trust Board and is a Project Manager at a locally-based nonprofit.

  13. Both mother and father are UNC housekeepers. They fled Burma as refugees and now own a home in Chapel Hill.

  14. Pacifica in Carrboro. Home of the Home Trust board President, a former teacher and a current UNC Ph.D. student.

  15. A home developed by Community Home Trust in the Northside neighborhood in Chapel Hill.

  16. Claremont in Carrboro. Two inclusionary duplex homes designed to resemble a single-family market rate home.

  17. Northside neighborhood. A home developed by Community Home Trust.

  18. Greenway condominiums in Meadowmont. All 16 units are affordable to households below 100% of median income.

  19. Carr Court neighborhood in Carrboro. Developed by Community Home Trust.

  20. East 54 in Chapel Hill will ultimately include 25% affordable condominiums.

  21. A retired homeowner, happy to be living in East 54, a secure, mixed-use development.

  22. Rosemary Place townhomes in Meadowmont

  23. Inclusionary single family homes in Larkspur in Chapel Hill

  24. Greenbridge in downtown Chapel Hill. 15% of the units are affordable.

  25. A young couple happy to be living in Greenbridge. Close to work and play.

  26. A proud Home Trust dad!

  27. Contact Us • www.communityhometrust.org • rdowling@communityhometrust.org • “Like” us on Facebook: Community Home Trust • Follow us on Twitter: HomeTrustNC

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