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Webster Groves land trust pitches permanently affordable homeownership, announces first house
Summary
Kathleen Vivins of the Webster Groves Community Land Trust told the committee the group’s model buys land and sells homes with a 99‑year ground lease to keep prices below market; the trust plans to list its first house in early summer and aims for roughly two homes per year.
Kathleen Vivins, a 27‑year Webster resident and representative of the Webster Groves Community Land Trust, told the Old Orchard committee that rising home prices are pushing working middle‑class residents — teachers, nurses and firefighters — out of the city.
Vivins described the community land trust (CLT) model: the nonprofit acquires the land and sells the home to a household under a long ground lease, keeping resale prices below market so successive buyers can afford to live in Webster Groves. She said the trust typically targets roughly…
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