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Join the Taproot White Center: Forever Homes Committee

A taproot, by definition, is the primary root of a plant from which other roots emerge from. In a similar manner, we seek to deepen our understanding and advance strategies related to permanent affordability, with the aim of ensuring benefits for future generations within our community.  

The Forever Homes Committee is a community engagement committee dedicated to co-educating our community about permanently affordable housing in our neighborhood—essentially homes that are kept off the traditional real estate market for perpetuity. This is done in a variety of ways but usually involves organization setting up a community land trust that owns the lands and restricts the resale of the structure on the land at an affordable rate. 

The end goal of this project is to gather communal testimony with the collaboration of the CDA staff and the Forever Homes Committee in order to co-author and create a report laying out the top preferences on the type of permanently affordable housing model that King County should adopt and fund that would effect unincorporated neighborhoods of King County, like ours.

Community land trust homes resist speculation from investors and can possibly preserve intergenerational belonging in White Center. Through collective action and community envisioning we’re planting the seeds for a future where housing in White Center is protected from displacement.

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Name *
First and Last Name
Email *
Phone number *
What is your connection to White Center?  *
Why are you passionate about Affordable Housing in our community? *
Do you have any experience with government, housing development or community engagement? 

(All level of experience are acceptable. Ranging from curiosity and interest to professionality)
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Are you familiar with community land trusts?  *
Time Commitment

Are you able to commit the time investment in this committee?

90 minute monthly committee meetings, (with the occasional possibility of 2x a month) for the next 10 months 

Meetings will include:
- Contributing personal knowledge on a diverse scale around housing needs, wants, and experiences within White Center and/or larger unincorporated King County
- Supporting in outreach around community engagement activities
- Shaping recommendation based on community feedback around housing models for a report roughly around 4 hours worth in total per month September-June

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Are you able to attend our first orientation meeting on September 19th or September 22nd from 5-6:30 pm  *
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