Baltimore, MD
MISSION: Our mission is to establish and maintain permanently affordable safe, quality, democratically and community controlled, non-commodified housing for the poorest (0 to 30% of Area Median Income) and to build communities of solidarity where every member is supported in the ways they need so they can participate in the ways they find meaningful.
Anchoring Principles:
- We are committed to recognizing and respecting the inherent worth and dignity of every person
- Permanent community stewardship of land and preserving the affordability of housing upon it
- Actively preventing any land we acquire and steward from being sold to wealthy elites, speculators, and others with a for-profit mission
- Being accountable to the community where we steward land, each other, and to the residents of the CLT, and to those who entrust resources to us and to these principles.
- Leadership Development and a systematic process of Leadership succession
Common Ground Land Trust 