The Northern California Land Trust (NCLT) is a non-profit corporation creating opportunities for permanently affordable home ownership using the community land trust (CLT) model for households without access to the traditional homeownership market. NCLT encourages and assists community residents to organize using the CLT model to guide and preserve CLT assets and to build thriving communities.

Description:
Unlike other affordable housing organizations, NCLT ensures that homes it builds or rehabilitates remain accessibly priced beyond the first homeowners. This is possible by using the community land trust (CLT) model through which NCLT retains the rights to the land upon which the home stands. When a homeowner wishes to sell the house, NCLT ensures the selling price is affordable, regardless of current market prices.

Beyond building/rehabilitating homes, NCLT also: -- provides resident ownership training programs for potential homeowners to help them adjust to this new responsibility, -- helps communities organize and set up additional land trusts -- offers consulting services to other non-profit or governmental organizations on building affordable housing

History:
Founded in 1973, the Northern California Land Trust (NCLT) is the leading organization in the Western United States specializing in permanently affordable housing for those who have no access to market rate housing (including those with lower wage jobs, on fixed incomes, or with disabilities).

Contact person: Pamela Sufi, President, Board Of Directors, (phone), (email)
Office fax number: (510) 548-7562

Address:

3122 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, CA 94705 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.nclt.org

Directions:

From San Francisco, merge onto I-80 E via the ramp on the LEFT toward OAKLAND.Take the exit.Turn RIGHT onto POWELL ST.Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto STANFORD AVE. Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto ADELINE ST. Turn RIGHT onto ALCATRAZ AVE.Turn LEFT onto SHATTUCK. . . (more)   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: Ashby BART,   Walk distance (in minutes): less than 10