Erika Malone, executive director of the Northwest Community Land Trust Coalition, has worked with CLTs in the region for over nine years. As the Programs Director at Kulshan Community Land
Trust for the last seven years she has conducted program and project design, worked directly with homebuyers and overseen the financial aspects of new construction projects. She believes that
CLTs are elegantly designed to allow community control of land, combat the forces of displacement and gentrification and strengthen whole communities. Appropriate residential development affordable
at the wages of the jobs nearby is necessary for a clean environment and sustainable quality of life. She is excited by the momentum that the CLT approach continues to gain regionally and
nationally. She is a native of Washington State, a CLT homeowner and a welder.

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