A huge thank you to everyone who came out and helped us celebrate this big win last week! So many people from so many aspects of this journey coming together, lots of energy around the project, so good to be together!

Thank you to all those who spoke, from projects as established as the Valley Community Land Trust, one of the oldest land trusts in the country who holds the land VHC is on, to our newest land preserving entity the Valley Alliance for Land Equity, and more in between. Those speeches were recorded and are available below! In the time since we gathered, we’ve been enjoying reading articles by the Greenfield Reporter and Montague Recorder covering the event.

We now own property! Well technically, we co-own duplexes and lease land from Valley Community Land Trust.

There is a lot to share, but we wanted to start with resources for combining a group equity housing cooperative with a community land trust, in order to create stable resident-controlled housing, with land taken off the speculative market forever and stewarded by the community.

Hello! I wanted to write up some of what has been going on the past month in Valley Housing Co-op land since Squarespace has this nice blog feature. We had a pretty busy holiday season, going to see the Vermod modular home factory, putting up some flyers, updating our website, looking into VT, and helping Nevin with his tiny home.

We are looking at the old “Aquarius House” at 211 Greenfield Road, Colrain (Zillow).