Richmond LAND

Richmond LAND is a community land trust that uses culture and creativity to engage residents, acquire land, and develop properties that create affordable housing and lasting community stability in the city of Richmond. Through community outreach and land and housing development projects, the organization stabilizes residents; sustains cultural legacies; and asserts residents’ right to remain, return, and thrive in the racially and ethnically diverse city, where its cultural diversity and history is being compromised by displacement. This grant to Richmond LAND advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.

Richmond LAND is a community land trust that uses arts-based methods to engage residents in design, research, and advocacy in support of housing affordability and thriving neighborhoods in the city of Richmond. Through a community fellowship program, community outreach, and land and housing development projects, Richmond LAND uses art and culture to help shift policy, amplify the stories of longtime residents, and build residents’ knowledge and leadership to promote neighborhood stabilization in the rapidly gentrifying city. This grant to Richmond LAND supports the Performing Arts Program’s strategic framework by advancing the economic self-determination of artists and cultural communities in the Bay Area.