Join Co-Op Dayton, Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc., and CountyCorp for a live webinar presented by national community land trust expert Emily Seibel, Executive Director of Yellow Springs Home, Inc. Community Land Trusts as a Strategy for Affordable Homeownership and Community Stewardship Thursday, December 15 Noon to 1:00 p.m. Learn how community land trusts provide: 1. Local community control and stewardship of land and housing 2.Sustained affordable homeownership in weak, emerging, and hot markets 3.Increased preparation and support for homeownership

In addressing these issues, Emily Seibel will discuss how the community land trust model works, the typical governance structure of a community land trust, and the flexibility of community land trusts that allows them to both stem gentrification and displacement in hot markets and also spur development in weak housing markets. This webinar will be the first of two one-hour webinars. After this initial webinar, attendees will be invited to attend another in which Emily Seibel will explain how these aspects of community land trusts can specifically combat many of the housing issues facing Dayton today.