“After serving for almost 7 years on the BCLT Board of Directors, Karen Dibblee is stepping down from her role to take some time for herself and enjoy family and friends. Karen has volunteered countless hours supporting our mission and led the organization as board president for the last 4 years during a period of rapid growth.

As it advances plans to provide affordable housing at the former Coast Guard property in Point Reyes Station, the Community Land Trust Association of West Marin has hired a new executive director to take the reins.

County managers are recommending that supervisors spend $500K of the $21M budget for new, one-time projects to address substandard rural housing.

We recently said goodbye to our cherished former Community Organizer, José Leyva, as he heads to Mexico City to continue his studies.

Join us for a BCLT Community Update! This event will take place on March 26th at 100 Mesa Road. We will provide updates on all of our current projects, as well as feature speakers Supervisor Dennis Rodoni and Angelica Resendez from Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco.

The Bolinas Community Land Trust has reached a deal to purchase the Tacherra ranch, where it plans to replace 23 condemned structures with new farmworker housing. The trust and the receiver in charge of the property expect to sign a purchase-and-sale agreement within days.

We are delighted to share that the emergency RV campground has a new name. Residents have named their home Bo-Linda Vista, “Linda” meaning beautiful. We know there is a lot of interest in the campground, and residents would like to ask for neighbors and strangers to respect their privacy as they continue to settle in. Families recently gathered to create signs to help clarify the private property boundaries. 

Assemblymember Damon Connolly introduced Assembly Bill 2897, designed to promote the expansion of community land trusts (CLTs) in California. The bill seeks to clarify the legal definition of CLTs and address their tax status, ensuring that they qualify for state programs like the foreclosure intervention housing preservation program.

Habitat for Humanity will develop the eight-unit affordable housing complex planned for downtown Bolinas, marking its largest collaboration yet with the Bolinas Community Land Trust. The project marks a strategic shift for the land trust, which had originally planned to develop the project on its own.

"In a departure from the ‘Housing First’ model, steps are underway to provide emergency housing for farmworkers in Bolinas. An imaginative approach and speedy action on the part of the nonprofit Bolinas Community Land Trust resulted in a first-rate temporary solution that is already up and running."

The Bolinas Community Land Trust’s creation of emergency housing on a large parcel off Mesa Road is an example of a community taking care of its own.

"Marin County supervisors allocated $622,000 on Tuesday to help provide emergency housing for approximately 60 people who have been living in substandard conditions for years in Bolinas."

"After work on Tuesday, a dozen Bolinas families received keys to their new homes in a temporary R.V. park just yards from their old ramshackle ranch housing. Children raced around the freshly graded grounds while their parents signed leases and toured trailers with staff from the Bolinas Community Land Trust, which plans to replace the condemned housing with permanent, affordable homes." (Ben Stocking / Point Reyes Light)

"The Bolinas Community Land Trust is attempting to raise more than $2.59 million to provide emergency housing using recreational vehicles for people who have been living in substandard conditions for years in western Marin.

The trust plans to install 27 recreational vehicles with utility connections and a new mound septic system on a 20-acre parcel at 130 Mesa Road. Water for the project would be supplied despite Bolinas’ moratorium on new water connections by reallocating water from other land trust properties."

"About 60 people living in condemned housing on a Bolinas ranch could begin moving into an emergency R.V. park next door as early as next week. The project’s organizers are forging ahead even though they are still scrambling to secure all the permits and money they will need to keep the project running after it opens."

"Tenants living in condemned housing on a Bolinas ranch have gone to court to demand the repayment of rent and unspecified damages as compensation for threats to their health, safety and emotional wellbeing."