Lack of Housing Is Not the Problem

She is also president of the newly formed South Bay Community Land Trust. In 2019, the City of Oakland dedicated $12 million to preserving affordable housing with community land trusts and cooperatives. The Challenge of ScaleThis aspiration arises from the challenges facing groups like the South Bay trust and East Bay collective. The South Bay Community Land Trust’s Perry therefore envisions the organization as part of an ecosystem of community resistance against those forces. Though the campaign to halt the Google development didn’t succeed, it inspired the creation of Silicon Valley’s first community land trust.