Legion Road Community Day
By Deneane Stanley, CHT Homeowner and Ambassador Editor's note: Every year, the homeowners in the Legion Road community get together for a community day, during which they work together on cleaning up and beautifying their neighborhood. This year's reflection [...]
Welcome Home!
By Ivelisse Mercado, CHT Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator At Community Home Trust we always welcome an opportunity to come together and celebrate! Staff had the pleasure of enjoying an afternoon amongst our newest CHT homeowners, board members, CHT [...]
World CLT Day
On May 17 and 18, community land trusts (CLTs) around the world will celebrate World CLT Day, an opportunity to acknowledge the worldwide community land trust movement and what it means for individuals and communities. You may know that [...]
Five Homes In Durham
On March 1, CHT purchased five homes on Open Air Camp Road in Durham, officially making them part of our permanently affordable inventory. The residents of those homes are members of the Eno River Tenants' Association and had long [...]
PRESS RELEASE: “Budget Your Way Home” program launches
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 8, 2024 Contact: Daniele Berman, Director of External Relations dberman@communityhometrust.org, 919.967.3231 ORANGE COUNTY AFFORDABLE HOUSING ORGANIZATION LAUNCHES INNOVATIVE PROGRAM TO HELP FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYERS STRUGGLING TO QUALIFY FOR A MORTGAGE On March 15, 2024, local nonprofit [...]
Homeowner Stories: Meet Veda
Veda is certain her new townhome in Bridgepoint was meant to be hers from the start – even though until very recently she was also pretty sure her dream home was in Rosemary Place, where a CHT home had [...]
Crawlspace Updates at Legion Road
At Community Home Trust, we consider partnership to be one of the most essential elements of our work. A project underway right now at the Legion Road townhomes in Chapel Hill is a great example of how our partnerships [...]
Board Stories: Meet Board President Brika (and New Members Bridgit, Linda, Ranya, and Jim)
Please help us welcome our new President of our Board of Directors and three new Board members in 2024! Brika Eklund has been a member of the CHT Board of Directors for the past three years, and as of [...]
UPDATE 1/11/24: How a House Becomes a CHT Home (meet homeowner Kelly!)
Our "How a House Becomes a CHT Home" blog series began in March of 2023, and it has tracked the story of how an idea and some drawings become a building and how that building takes shape as a [...]
Homeowner Stories: Meet Moksha
By Moksha Sharon Kolman, CHT homeowner since 2011 My husband and I bought a house in the Pacifica Co-Housing community in Carrboro during its initial building phase. We moved there with our two girls. We heard about the Community [...]
Homeowner Stories: Meet Sandra
This interview isn’t the only time Sandra has shared her CHT story recently. In fact, just a few weeks ago, she says she was “going on and on for a full ten minutes” telling one of her coworkers about [...]
UPDATE 11/21/23: How a House Becomes a CHT Home
Last month, we had the opportunity to do a pre-drywall inspection at one of our newest townhomes at Bridgepoint. If you've been following this journey, you'll know that when the new townhome community is complete, CHT will have five [...]
