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Cass Clay Community Land Trust seeks Clay County partnership, explores land bank to preserve affordable workforce housing
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Cass Clay Community Land Trust told commissioners it has used more than $6 million in public and private funding to produce affordable homes serving workforce households in Clay County and asked the board to partner on identifying sites and consider land‑banking to preserve long‑term affordability.
The Cass Clay Community Land Trust updated the Clay County Board Tuesday on its efforts to produce and preserve affordable workforce housing and asked the county to partner on locating blighted parcels and on exploring a land‑bank model to hold and steward property for community benefit.
Trenton, director of the Cass Clay Community Land Trust, told commissioners the nonprofit spun out of the FM Area Foundation and has focused on developing permanently affordable homes for households at or near 80 percent of area median income. He said the organization has secured just over $6 million in funding and has completed multiple projects that together have supported homeownership and preserved housing affordability in both Cass County (N.D.) and Clay County (Minn.).
Trenton provided county‑specific figures: the land trust has seven current homeowners in Clay County —…
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