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February with DCLT: Honoring Black History Month

We invite you to meet our residents – Cory, Vicente, Juan and Maria. They talk about their experiences during COVID-19 and how the Rental Hardship Fund has made an impact in their lives. https://dclt.dm.networkforgood.com/emails/first_name-meet-our-residents

  Over 80 volunteers from Republic Services, Trees Durham, Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association, Durham Master Gardners program and friends of DCLT painted, planted and cleaned up 5 DCLT properties in East Durham impacting 14 families and countless neighbors! Dig for DCLT Day was part of Neighborhood National Promise Day, a philanthropic corporate responsibility initiative of … Continued

[February, 2020] Discover Durham featured DCLT’s Executive Director, Selina Mack for Black History month. Read the full article https://www.discoverdurham.com/blog/selina-mack/

DURHAM (May 30 2019) – Durham Community Land Trustees and Republic Services held a launch event to announce their partnership to build front porches, care for old-growth trees, remove yard debris, build sheds, sidewalks and driveways, and clean up yards in East Durham. The neighborhood revitalization award is one of two in North Carolina (twenty-three nationwide) … Continued

[For Immediate Release April 1. 2019.] It is rare these days to get to celebrate permanent affordable housing wins in Durham.  On April 10 at 4:00 pm, Durham Community Land Trustees (DCLT) will celebrate – with a host of nonprofit partners – the completed construction of two, new beautiful energy-efficient three-bedroom rental homes in the … Continued

Story published by Gregory Scruggs on 1/21/19 for Thomas Reuters Foundation. DURHAM, North Carolina – A home under construction is a common sight in Durham, a small but booming city in North Carolina that has been billed “the start-up capital of the South.” But this wood-frame, which will soon be a three-bedroom house, is unusual: it will rent … Continued

Nakia Hodges has lived in one of DCLT’s 2 bedroom Morehead Glen apartments with her son Caleb (age 5) and her daughter Johnessia (age 17) for over four years. Developed in 1995, Morehead Glen is a four-building, 20 townhouse-style rental apartment complex in the Greater West End. It rents to residents who earn 60% of … Continued