Housing that’s affordable – because the community owns the land
Life in America was not easy. “It was crowded,” Meidan “Abby” Lin says.
In March 2016, Ms. Lin; her husband, Yin Zheng; their young son, Yuchen; and Mr. Zheng’s mother left Fuzhou, China, a bustling coastal city at the mouth of the Min River, for another port half a world away on the Charles River in Boston.
They shared their first apartment in Boston’s Chinatown with another family. During nights in that cramped space, Ms. Lin started dreaming of a place she could call her own. But Boston’s soaring real estate prices seemed to put that dream out of reach. Mr. Zheng works at a restaurant. Ms. Lin works at home.
Then a friend told Ms. Lin about the Chinatown Community Land Trust. The organization was just getting its start, but maybe it could help.
The group was
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