Our Mission

San Juan Community Home Trust creates permanently affordable housing for low- and moderate-income island residents, promotes economic diversity and development, and supports a sustainable island community while practicing responsible stewardship of our rural enviornment.

The Home Trust is a community land trust, a type of organization that removes the cost of land from the cost of the home. Our homeowners partner with us as stewards of affordability. The Home Trust is a registered nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.

Sun Rise forever affordable homes:
Now Under Construction
(posted: 3/22/10)

January 13, 2010 was the date of the official groundbreaking for Sun Rise, with the construction of 14 new permanently affordable homes currently underway. An unseasonably warm and dry January and February have provided ideal conditions for the dirt work, and progress is well underway and ahead of schedule on extending Grover Street and installing utilities.

Fourteen homes, ranging in size from one to four bedrooms, will be constructed. Twelve of the homes are reserved for households at or below 80% of Area Median Income, and will be priced to be affordable.  Grant funds have been secured to provide the subsidies needed to serve this income group, and mortgage payments can be no more than one third of a household 's income.

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