Housing

Kulshan Community Land Trust strengthens community by holding land in trust for permanently affordable homeownership and other community needs, and by offering financial and educational services to people of limited means.

In practice this means we acquire or build homes, coordinate the investment of public and private dollars to subsidize those homes, and make them affordable to community members who earn between 50-80% of the area median income. Our program allows first-time homebuyers of modest means a way to build equity and benefit from homeownership in an affordable way.

KulshanCLT has 14 at Matthei Place in Happy Valley and 5 others scattered throughout the neighborhood, for a total of 19.

BUILD SMALL LIVE LARGE
  • Friday, April 13th 2018 at 7pm—Us and Them, a one-act play performed by BAAY students at the Firehouse Cafe
    (FREE–No Registration need)
  • Saturday, April 14th 2018, 8:30 am Community Workshop to Explore Creative Housing Solutions in Happy Valley

Build Small Live Large

PROGRAM

Welcome – Wendy Scherrer, Happy Valley Neighborhood Association

Build Small Live Large Happy Valley Video (EJ Visuals) – Ray Dellecker, Happy Valley Neighborhood Association

Keynote – The Power of Small: How small policies add up to big rewards in the housing market Margaret Morales, Sightline Institute

10×10 – 10 minutes x 10 slides – Rose Lathrop, Green Building, Sustainable Connections‑

  1. Changing No to Yes in our Neighborhood– Shannon Maris, Lightsource Design
  2. Low Energy Living– Mike Roberts, Habitat for Humanity
  3. What’s my house worth?  Market Trends in Happy Valley– Heather Othmer, Windermere
  4. Creative Housing Solutions – Carrie Veldmen, RJ Group
  5. The Life Sized City – Christine Grant, The Institute for Energy Studies, WWU
  6. Myth Busting: The Tall Tales and Urban legends of Local Housing – Chris Behee, GIS Analyst, City of Bellingham
  7. Planning for the Happy Neighborhood– Darby Cowles, Planner, City of Bellingham

 Lunch – Catered by the Community Food Co-op

Building Our Collective Intelligence – Daimon Sweeney

  • Now it’s your turn! Share your ideas in an interactive session about what would make Happy Valley your ideal neighborhood.
  • All of us together will distill the answers into priorities to guide future projects. Your input counts!!!

YIMBY Poster 2018

Us and Them

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