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SFCLT is hiring!

SFCLT seeks to hire a Program Manager to begin work in June 2012.  The Program Manager will help build and maintain a strong, well-functioning, community-based organization. The Program Manager is hired by and reports to the Organizational Director. Working closely with the OD, the Program Manager is responsible for the overall coordination of our member services, outreach, and education programs. Other duties include providing support to the membership/outreach and project committees, as well as some administrative work. The ideal candidate will have experience working with people from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, will be passionate about the organization's mission, and experienced in community organizing.

Spring Newsletter

2012

Welcome to 2012, the U.N. declared International Year of Cooperatives!  We are proud to help celebrate this historic year with an event on March 1st, looking at the history of housing cooperatives in the U.S. and how unions and workers have built and supported housing co-ops across the country.  We hope to see you there and at our annual meeting on March 24th.  Read all about it below...

HOUSING CO-OP FORMATION BRINGS 13 YEAR HOUSING DRAMA TO A HAPPY END

Chinatown's Columbus United Cooperative emerges as example of long-term solution to displacement of families and seniors from San Francisco.

This month, residents of the Columbus United Cooperative (CUC) celebrate an end to their 13 year housing struggle as they convert their building into a permanently affordable, resident-owned limited equity, housing cooperative. In August, a unanimous vote of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors allowed their apartment building to convert to a housing cooperative.  Now the cooperative can officially sell co-op shares to the residents who will become cooperative home owners with control of their building's finances, membership and maintenance. The action brings to an end a thirteen-year struggle against displacement of the building's residents. This is not only a local milestone, but of national importance. The residents of 53 Columbus Avenue have been working with the San Francisco Community Land Trust (SFCLT) to protect the building and to convert it into a permanently affordable housing cooperative. The CUC / SFCLT collaboration is the first Community Land Trust in the country to use a housing cooperative explicitly to prevent the eviction of current residents.

• Interview with CUC Vice-President