About RootedHomes
Mission
RootedHomes provides environmentally sustainable and permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for those who contribute to the fabric of the Central Oregon economy and community.
Mission
Vision
Vision
RootedHomes envisions sustainable, equitable communities where everyone can afford to live where they work and play.
Values
Affordability - RootedHomes creates mixed-income communities with homes that are permanently affordable through the Community Land Trust model.
Sustainability - RootedHomes develops to goal net-zero energy standards to ensure equitable access to energy-efficient homes, and the health and savings that come with it.
Equitable Access - RootedHomes is committed to providing access to healthy homes to homebuyers who have been excluded from the opportunity to build wealth through homeownership.
Values
Community Land Trust
The Community Land Trust model was born out of the civil rights movement when sharecroppers in Georgia wanted the right to vote but couldn’t vote without owning land. They pooled their resources and collectively purchased a working farm and, in doing so, started the first Community Land Trust. Since Community Land Trusts have developed across the Pacific Northwest and the nation and while their community needs are diverse, they all use a similar model. Homeowners own their home outright by leveraging a traditional mortgage; the Community Land Trust owns the land under the house and leases it back to the homeowner through a 99 year renewable land lease. The lease ensures that the home resells to another income-qualified homebuyer if the homeowners sell. The original homeowner receives a fair return on their initial investment while helping future generations access affordable homes as they did.
Our Homebuyers
RootedHomes builds sustainable communities for Central Oregon’s workforce - nurses, teachers, essential workers, and many more who contribute to the fabric of the economy. These are working families and individuals who can qualify for a mortgage but cannot afford to purchase a home on the rising market when their wages remain stagnant. RootedHomes bridges this gap by creating homeownership for first-time homebuyers.
Priority Population
To ensure equitable access of its homes for everyone, RootedHomes is committed to strategies that break down homeownership barriers for its priority population - Black, Indigenous, and people of color households, earning less than 80% AMI, with family housing needs.
Sustainability
RootedHomes builds sustainable communities.
Our homes are built to goal net zero energy standards, meaning the home produces enough renewable energy on-site to meet its own energy consumption. RootedHomes goes beyond building net-zero homes, to building sustainable communities that include electric bikes for all homeowners, xeriscaping, community gardens, and EV charging.
Linking Health to Housing
RootedHomes is not only committed to breaking down the barriers for lower-income households to access affordable homeownership, it is also committed to energy justice. Lower-income households are disproportionately burdened by energy insecurity due to their higher likelihood of living in older, energy-inefficient homes. This situation causes increased housing costs and unhealthy living conditions, linking housing to health insecurities. Persistent income and health inequality perpetuates instability that leads to generational poverty. This is why RootedHomes build net-zero homes for it priority populations.
Sustainable Partners
Sustainable Partners
