KCCLT History
The Marlborough Neighborhood
The Marlborough neighborhood is a geographically defined neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri that encompasses 2.5 square miles. In this area are 4,657 homes, 23.6% of which are vacant, 60-75% are rentals, and 45.5% have one or more substandard housing condition. The evidence supporting a correlation between neighborhood housing conditions and social outcomes is internationally well-documented, and locally well-evidenced.
The KCCLT (formerly Marlborough Community Land Trust) organizers sought to create an entity that could acquire dilapidated housing, fully rehabilitate the housing, and ensure that the housing could benefit members of the community long-term.
KCCLT Serves to:
stabilize low income communities
create quality and well maintained homes
ensure access to quality homes by low and moderate income home buyers sale after sale
allow low and very low income populations to build generational wealth
ensure people of low and very low-income are not displaced as we see rapidly increasing home prices
In 2018, the H & R Block Foundation generously provided a grant to the Marlborough Community Coalition neighborhood association (“MCC”) to further research, fund, and implement CLT policies. In 2019, MCC incorporated MCLT and in January 2020, MCLT attained 501(c)(3) status.
In May 2023, Marlborough Community Land Trust rebranded and was officially known as Kansas City Community Land Trust.
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