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Join us Tomorrow night for a presentation at the LULAC Hall in Silver City, located at 100 W Alice St, in Silver City, NM. LULAC stands for “The League of United Latin American Citizens.” It was founded in 1929, and is the oldest and most widely respected Hispanic civil rights organization in the United StatesContinue reading “Affordable Housing Presentation for LULAC 8003 on Tuesday, Sept 10 at 6pm”

Hi All, I just wanted to send an update on the project to create the Thrival Cabin prototype for Jade. Here we are yesterday, driving around doing errands. You can’t tell from this photo because she’s such a trooper, but she’s in hell right now with no safe place to sleep. For those of youContinue reading “Jade’s Thrival Cabin Project”

This Sunday, August 4th at 10:00 am, 3845 North Swan Street – “Creative Solutions for Sustainable Affordable Housing” Joanne DeMichele and Holly Noonan met at a public hearing on affordable housing. They quickly realized that they have similar concerns and solutions. Separately and together, they pursue alternative, sustainable, healthy, equitable, and people-focused solutions to preserveContinue reading “Creative Solutions for Sustainable, Affordable Housing at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship”

Join us at The Silco Theatre on Wednesday, August 14th at 6pm for this screening of “A Decent Home,” about the social cohesion as well as radical economic vulnerability of homeowners who live in manufactured housing communities. They own their homes, but not the land underneath them and many of them didn’t see it comingContinue reading “Screening of “A Decent Home” at the Silco on 8/14/24″

Silver City, NM, July 18, 2024 Crooked Forest Institute recently received a $200,000 grant from the Tides Foundation. Crooked Forest Institute is a Silver City-based 501c3 non-profit organization that is focussing on building affordable housing on a local Community Land Trust. The Tides Foundation envisions a world of shared prosperity and social justice founded onContinue reading “We received a $200,000 grant from the Tides Foundation.”

Thanks everyone for showing up in person today! It was quite a crowd. Here is the recording of the presentation, which mostly features our slide deck and our voices. If you came to the presentation, feel free to leave feedback or questions here. Click Here to watch the Zoom Recording. (Fast Forward to minute 3Continue reading “Zoom Recording of “Disability-Design and Elder Housing””

Hi all, If you are not able to join us in person, Zoom is an option, but the original link they published won’t work. Here is the new link that will work: Western Institute for Lifelong Learning is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Topic: A WILL Lunch & Learn Event / A Crooked ForestContinue reading “New Zoom Link for WILL presentation tomorrow”

Affordable housing is hard to find.  The Crooked Forest Institute, a local 501(c)3, is focused on becoming a Community Housing Development Organization in order to build multiple affordable housing neighborhoods on shared-equity land like a Community Land Trust. The Western Institute for Lifelong Learning (WILL) invites you to a Lunch and Learn community education programContinue reading “Join us on July 10th for “Disability-Forward Design and Elder Housing””

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-c8hjs-164e96b Couldn’t make it to the Crooked Forest Workshop at the Tranquil Buzz on Friday, June 21st? Here’s the recording of the Regenerative Rural Resilience: Leveraging Community Power for Economic Transformation workshop so you can take it with you. This workshop focuses on the Economic aspects of the Crooked Forest vision. In this workshop, JoeContinue reading “Regenerative Rural Resilience: Leveraging Community Power for Economic Transformation”