Shared Equity Housing Strategies with Northern Manhattan Community Land Trust, Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative, Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition and Committee to House the Bay Area

11:15AM, Room 406

Shared equity models, including community land trusts and limited equity cooperatives, represent an opportunity to root affordable housing provision – and potentially business development as well – in permanent affordability and community control. This panel highlights three distinct efforts to ensure that subsidized property development becomes part of a broad, transformative framework for economic democracy and collective wealth-building. They are: a strategic collaboration around property acquisition for residential and commercial land trusts in the Bronx; an effort to pilot and scale shared equity models in the Bay Area/Silicon Valley; and a student-developed proposal for multi-family land trust housing on a particular site in Washington Heights.

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Panel organizers

Avi Garelick

Avi is in his second year (part-time) at Hunter College in the Master’s of Urban Policy and Leadership program, focusing on housing and community development. He has been community organizing in Washington Heights for several years and helped lead the Northern Manhattan Not For Sale campaign against the rezoning of Inwood.

Nicholas Shatan

Nicholas Shatan is Planning and Knowledge Capture Coordinator at the MIT Community Innovators Lab, working on city planning and policy, mapping, and qualitative research with the Just Urban Economies program in the Bronx. He is committed to critical study and action around neighborhood history and change, development finance and policy, and democratic governance and collective ownership. Nick has a master’s degree in city and regional planning from Rutgers University.

Vinita Goyal

Vinita Goyal is the Program Officer for Housing and Transportation at Silicon Valley Community Foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area and an independent researcher. She brings to her work her experience in urban planning and policy, working to align place-based infrastructure improvements with community needs and aspirations, particularly for vulnerable populations that can be adversely affected by planning policies. She has a Master of City Planning from U.C. Berkeley and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Lucknow, India.

Laura Wolf-Powers

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