The Harris County Community Land Trust has begun moving families into permanently...
Because of the Houston's land trust is already in place, the Harris County Community Land Trust is focusing on homeownership outside of the city borders, though its bylaws also permit the trust to operate anywhere countywide, saidWest Side land trust and demolition fund would be first of its kind in San Antonio
But she said as she learned more about the program, she came around to the way it was set up. Not buying the land made homeownership considerably less expensive — right now, making a purchase with the land trust will take up to $100,000 off the list price, depending on how much of a subsidy a family needs to make the home affordable. And she learned that, with a 99-year renewable lease on the land, she would be able to do anything she wanted with the yard.
Harris County Commissioner's Court approved the creation of the Harris County Community Land Trust in May of 2019. Unlike the Houston Community Land Trust, the county's trust intends to support both single-family and multi-family properties. But like the city's trust, it took time to begin moving families into homes.
Tashare Reed cooks dinner in her home on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022 in Crosby. Reed is the first homebuyer for the Harris County land trust, a program to create permanently affordable housing by taking the cost of land out of the equation for the homebuyer.The first two families the county has moved into homes in recent weeks both purchased homes built by the county itself using U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development HOME funding.
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