Land, Trust, and Resilience: The Road to Staying Home

On March 1, 2024, Community Home Trust purchased five homes on Open Air Camp Road in Durham, North Carolina, officially making them part of our permanently affordable inventory. The residents of those homes are members of the Eno River Tenants’ Association and had long hoped their homes could be protected by becoming part of a community land trust. But the homes were poorly maintained, and the tenants had been threatened with eviction.

We have now completed extensive necessary renovations on the homes, work that was funded by a grant from the Oak Foundation and a loan from the Durham Affordable Housing Loan Fund. The current tenants, some of whom have lived in their homes for nearly twenty years, will get to stay – and some may even choose to become homeowners using our land trust homeownership model.

This film highlights the stories of three of the residents and the process of turning their houses into safe, beautiful, permanently affordable land trust homes. We hope you'll join us for what promises to be a powerful evening of celebrating home and learning about the land trust model. The film will be followed by a panel discussion.