The Roland Curtis Gardens Project: A Redevelopment of an Existing Building

The Roland Curtis Gardens project is a redevelopment rather than an acquisition or rehabilitation of an existing building. Community land trusts are often supported on the basis of being able to maintain affordability for sure, but also allow residents to build equity as homeowners. An important part of this project was its right of return provisions which gave tenants of the old building preferential access to move into new ones when they were completed. 25 out of the original 48 households decided to move back and there's a phenomenally high take up rate for this kind of program, just over 50%.