A community land trust for Bay Area artists is providing low-income artists with affordable pathways to homeownership, with the first project centered on an apartment in a Mission-district duplex.
Artist Space Trust, a program of the nonprofit Vital Arts and the Northern California Land Trust, this month began accepting applications for Celadon House, an Adair Street duplex that has been taken off San Francisco’s for-profit housing market to become part of the Artist Space Trust.
The program secures and develop affordable-housing sites throughout the Bay Area, with the goal of giving artists the spaces needed to live and work in their communities…