Buffalo Common Council President Darius G. Pridgen said Tuesday he is not inclined to transfer any additional vacant, city-owned lots to the Fruit Belt Community Land Trust after it doubled the rent it charges two tenants.
In 2018, the Council approved the transfer of four vacant lots to the land trust for development of affordable housing.
But two tenants complained Tuesday to a Council committee that the trust notified them that their rents on two houses on Rose Street will increase by double or more.
“I’ll be very clear that I don’t think that this Council at this point should continue to move land until this situation – not just this situation, but the whole situation – is correct because of how important I think the Fruit Belt Community Land Trust is,” Pridgen said.
The Fruit Belt Community Land Trust – with its mission of ensuring the historic neighborhood’s housing remains affordable while allowing new development to occur – is raising rents by roughly double or more on two houses its owns.
The role of the Fruit Belt Community Land Trust is to ensure the historic Fruit Belt neighborhood’s housing remains affordable while allowing new development to occur.
But the rent dispute between the two residents and the land trust played out…
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