3 Part Real Estate Series - Presented by BRED

What:

Are you interested in learning how you can pursue real estate but want to know what your options are to stay grounded in the community?

Our approach to real estate is non-extractive, productive sustainability, and values radical inclusion. Here at BRED, we want to help bring this type of education to you, and the community. We are hosting this 3-part series to help cooperatives and cooperative-centered communities learn more about what it takes to form, maintain, and build different types of real estate models such as:

• Community Land Trusts
• Real Estate Cooperatives
• Community Investment Vehicles

This is a 3-part series so feel free to attend one or more session

WHEN:

May 23rd: 5-7 pm

• Red Clover Collective - Housing Collective

Red Clover Collective is a small intentional community and cooperative, with horizontal democratic governance. For 20 years they have been dedicated to building relationships and lifestyles centered around sustainable living, social justice, and centered values in artistic creation. Christina and Nicholas, members and residents of the community will be presenting this session to dive deeper into the history of Red Clover and how this structure has been a resource for their community.

• South Baltimore Community Land Trust (SBCLT) - Community Land Trust

Founded in 2019, SBCLT is a community-led organization that believes in dignified housing. Their focus is on environmental justice and housing in the process of developing homes to be owned in the Cherry Hill and Curtis Bay areas. They develop quality homes that stay affordable and offer support to homeowner applicants to prevent involuntary displacement within communities that face risk. Makayla, who is involved with the Housing Stewardship will be sharing the ins and outs of what this organization does, and offer other resources to connect people to education on Land Trusts within their communities.

June 6th: 5-7 pm

• Network for Developing Conscious Communities (NDCC)

A spiritually based leadership and community development network organization. Their focus is on creating strategic planning efforts to lead a diverse perspective in strengthening the Black governed community development ecosystem. Ron Hantz will be leading this conversation that will focus on low-income cooperative housing strategies.

July 11th: 5-7 pm

• Invest York Road (IYR) - Community Investment Vehicle

A local project to create community-owned commercial real estate to revitalize the York Road corridor and build community wealth. Join Stephanie Geller and learn about how this Community Investment Vehicle helped the surrounding neighborhoods of York Road as they developed and maintained this project.

Host or Publisher Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy