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HELP @ ATL 
Westside Atlanta Land Trust Program

HELP ORG INC seeks to improve the quality of life of in-place residents by mobilizing its
​community-driven land trust program, 
Westside Atlanta Land Trust, affectionately called WALT by its Members.  
​WALT's mission is to organize the community's power for self-determination!
A community land trust (CLT) is a nonprofit corporation that develops and stewards permanently affordable housing, community gardens, civic buildings, commercial spaces and other community assets on behalf of a community. “CLTs” balance the needs of individuals to access land and maintain security of tenure with a community’s need to maintain affordability, economic diversity and local access to essential services.

Thank YOU
Burlington Associates in Community Development!!!

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Introduction: Community Land Trusts 03.19.2016
during 
WALT Program Advisory Board Meeting 
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Click the WALT Program E-File Cabinet to email your request.

​WALT Program Mapping Project Series

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Benefits of Homeownership
Homeownership provides a broad range of benefits to individual homeowners and to society as a whole:

• The children of homeowners do better in school and are more successful later in life.  
• Homeownership acts as a powerful economic stimulus, benefiting the individual homeowner and the national economy.  
• Homeownership benefit's neighborhoods, providing economic and social capital.  
• Homeowners are more likely to participate in local organizations, and homeownership in distressed communities raises neighborhood property values by a significant amount.  
• Homeowners state that they are more satisfied with their living situation than renters.

Homeownership Benefits for Children
Homeownership confers a substantial benefits to children.  Children of homeowners score better on academic tests, graduate at a higher rate, have fewer behavioral problems, and enjoy a better social environment.  Living in an owned home is also a predictor of future success, as homeowners’ children earn more than renters’ children, are less likely to be on welfare, and are more likely to become homeowners themselves.
Academic Achievement
•  Children living in owned homes rather than in rented homes score better on academic achievement tests.
•  Math achievement scores of owners’ children were about 9 percent higher than renters’ children (Haurin, Parcel, Haurin 2000).
•  Reading achievement scores were about 7 percent higher (Haurin, Parcel, Haurin 2000).
Behavioral Problems and Social Development
•  Children living in owned homes experience fewer behavioral problems than children in rented homes.
•  Behavioral problems of owners’ children were about 1 to 3 percent lower than renters’ children (Haurin, Parcel, Haurin 2000).  
• Behavioral problems include difficulties in interacting with other children, difficulties concentrating, having a strong temper, being withdrawn, being too dependent, and feeling worthless or inferior, among others.
• Renters’ children are 40 percent more likely to give birth as an unmarried teenager than owners’ children (Harkness and Newman 2003).
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    Are you interested in OWNING and OCCUPYING a home at an affordable price in Northwest Atlanta?  If so, maybe we can help.  Please fill out the NAWZ Project Client In-Take Form below to begin the process.

    NAWZ Project Client
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