State College Community Land Trust

Help out our friends at Housing Transitions by doing some cooking!

Did you know that you can generate donations while shopping for your valentine, at no extra cost? Start your shopping at smile.amazon.com/ch/25-1801884 to confirm "State College Community Land Trust Inc" as your charity of choice, and AmazonSmile will donate a portion of your eligible purchase price to our organization.

#FBF to last week when our new University Dr. Duplex played host to our #Energy+ partners' brainstorm about the Kemmerer Road project. Sometimes a working partnership is as simple as providing parking and a warm place to safely meet for some friends. We're excited to have many partners on this Energy+ project all working to make the borough's affordable housing more energy efficient. Shout-out to Norm Horn, the Certified Passive House Tradesperson from Envinity helping both us, and The HOME Foundation navigate our way through these energy retrofits.

Consider starting the new year off with a new book! This Centre County Reads selection looks like something that might be right up the alley of area housing advocates and our followers. The Address Book by Deirdre Mask is an in-depth explanation about how our places shape our lives. Named one of Planetizens top books of 2020. We'll be reading along, will you?... https://www.facebook.com/CentreCountyReads/posts/10160899650744782 See more

Looking forward to tuning into this event tomorrow to listen and learn. Shout out to our Outreach and Development Committee member and star volunteer, Shannon Holliday, who will be participating in this panel.

Join us in welcoming our 73rd homeowner, who closed on their land trust house today! They will be starting the new year in a new home! We'll have several houses coming up for sale in 2021 so call or email us today do that we can plan on welcoming you to the neighborhood soon, too! #affordablehousing #permanentaffordability #downtownstatecollege #communitylandtrusts #CLTs #closetoeverything #firsttimehomebuyer #FTHB #welcometotheneighborhood

Wherever you live in the #CentreRegion, whether near Downtown State College, Lemont, Pennsylvania, Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, Downtown Bellefonte Inc., Philipsburg, Pa. Businesses or farther afield, be sure to #shoplocal this holiday season! Many businesses even offer curbside pickup! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeGjNh2lwbU&feature=youtu.be

A little extra time to get things clear:

ICYMI: We bought our *50th* home last week! Wowza! We look forward to dedicating this home in the spring, but any gifts made now will help us complete renovations on this home, and others like it to get them ready for qualified buyers MORE QUICKLY! Help us bring more people home this holiday season; give at https://www.scclandtrust.org/donate.html

Reminder that we will be closed tomorrow (12/31) and Friday (1/1). HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!

FYI, it is still snowing, so we are all still under a snow emergency. Help out where you can by moving your car and shoveling walkways.

Followers of SCCLT might like to share this opportunity with fellow affordable housing supporters that we know in Patton Township:

Don't forget to vote for our tree in Downtown State College 's tree decorating contest! Last day to vote is Sunday! Vote here: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSfEJ2qmaMOvUYSZr9/viewform

Did you miss our Arc of Justice screening and panel discussion? A recording of that conversation is now up on our YouTube page. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/vE466pXWgVQ

Thank you to everyone who came out for our Arc of Justice screening and panel discussion. It was an informative, enlightening and heartening time! Thanks, especially to our partner, Schlow Centre Region Library and our amazing panelists, the Honorable Donald Hahn, Niki vonLockette and John Davis!

Tomorrow night is going to be rainy and cold; perfect weather for a virtual film screening and panel discussion. Join us!

Learn about the roots of the community land trust movement by joining us for a virtual screening of #ArcofJustice THIS Thursday at 7pm. This event is free but you must sign up at https://www.schlowlibrary.org//arc-justice-watch-party-con

October Welcome Home Newsletter is out now! Inside: you are invited to our Arc of Justice virtual screening, get property updates, meet our newest homeowners, and more!

FYI! Share widely!

We are really grateful to be amongst the organizations who received this funding, and even more grateful to live in such a supportive, generous community. These funds will be used to help us meet increased demand and to supplement cancelled in-person events.

We're seeking volunteers to fill two Board positions starting in January, 2021. Consider volunteering yourself, or help us to spread the word!

As a partner agency of the Centre County United Way we LOVE #DayofCaring. Here are some pics from last year of awesome volunteers from AmeriServ Bank helping us paint one of our houses. We'll miss that camaraderie, but supporters can still make sure that area nonprofits get some love on #DayofCaring2020. On October 1 visit Day-of-Caring.org to support the 28 partner agencies during this crucial time.

Can you identify this location in the #statecollege borough? Our real estate & rehab committee visited today to brainstorm for the upcoming #renovation of this duplex. If you have been thinking about applying, do it now to get in the pipeline for this diamond in the rough. From to #permanentaffordability #downtownstatecollege #communitylandtrusts

Pssst, have you completed your #2020Census questionnaire yet? If not, you have until 9/30 to get counted! Visit https://my2020census.gov/ #LiveHere #CountHere

Pssst, have you completed your #2020Census questionnaire yet? If not, you have until Sept. 30 to complete it by visiting https://my2020census.gov/ #LiveHere #CountHere #EverybodyCounts #CountMeIn