HRB and the Land Trust find common ground

2025-08-15T10:33:28-07:00June 24th, 2024|

In this op-ed published by The Kitsap Sun the Bainbridge Island Review, Phedra Elliott, executive director of HRB, and Cullen Brady, executive director of the Bainbridge Island Land Trust, explain how a partnership combining conservation with affordable housing development is in the best interest of the community as it contends with the pressures of growth.

The struggle to stay

2025-07-02T15:52:34-07:00January 5th, 2024|

As eldercare provider Sam Christy helps her clients age in place, she faces her own struggle to remain on Bainbridge Island, where the cost of housing is prohibitive to those in her profession. Buying an affordable HRB home at Wintergreen would keep her where she belongs.

The beauty and ingenuity of Washington community land trusts

2022-08-29T11:11:16-07:00August 11th, 2022|

Permanent affordability. That’s their beauty. Resale restrictions that limit home prices while allowing the seller to reap the benefits of homeownership. That’s their ingenuity. Hear how four Washington community land trusts are garnering community and government support to grow their land trusts and meet the housing needs of their communities.