Housing land trust looking for family to buy first home in west Olympia
The Olympian 1/10/2021 Brandon Block, The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.)
Jan. 10 Thurston Housing Land Trust, a local nonprofit that was founded three years ago and aims to create permanently affordable housing, is in the process of acquiring its first piece of land, and is recruiting a low-income family to buy the house that sits on it.
South Sound has numerous conservation land trusts that preserve fish and wildlife habitat, wetlands, and farmland. This is the only community land trust aimed at providing affordable housing in Thurston County, although the model has a long history in Boston, Seattle, and Burlington, Vermont, among other U.S cities.