The Latino civic organization UnidosUS awarded Durham Community Land Trustees with a grant to help fun new housing in Durham.
The largest Latino civic organization in the U.S. named the Durham Community Land Trustees as one of nine finalists to be awarded grant money to support homeownership for Latino residents.
An initiative from UnidosUS called Premio HOME, which stands for Home Ownership Means Equity, held a national competition where housing organizations proposed innovative solutions to America’s housing crisis.
As a finalist, the Land Trustees received a grant award of $75,000 for their project proposal titled EcoGrace Durham. The new project will build new, affordable homes that are environmentally sustainable and energy efficient, as well as compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant.
The group’s proposed EcoGrace initiative will build out seven four-bedroom homes scattered throughout Durham’s Southside, East Durham and Hayti neighborhood. Land Trustees serves low to moderate income households who are majority Black and Latino.
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“We know that a lot of our homebuyers are looking for four bedrooms or more. And that’s really hard to find in Durham right now, at an affordable price.”
