Invest In Your Community with CIT
The Community Investment Trust (CIT) builds the possibility to strengthen communities and create empowered lives. The CIT offers a long-term path to collective, communal ownership of real-estate for investors from $10 – $100 /month. Ultimately, we are committed to working together to build more productive and resilient communities across the country.
Building Community Ownership in Commercial Real Estate, One Community Investor at a Time
What is a CIT?
A Community Investment Trust is formed when a local, trusted nonprofit or sponsor organization buys a piece of commercial real estate property in a designated neighborhood and puts it into a corporation that is then owned and managed by local residents, known as community investors. Key attributes of the CIT model include:
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Discover the power of the Community Investment Trust (CIT) and how it can transform the lives of individuals, businesses, and neighborhoods
CIT Community Investors
CIT Community Investors benefit from strengthened personal finance knowledge, annual and long-term financial returns through dividends and long-term share price change. They gain pride of ownership through interconnection, relationships and belonging within the wider community.
Small business
Small business tenants of the CIT property benefit from community stewardship, local visibility and collaborative resiliency with Community Investors and fellow CIT tenants.
The community
The community benefits from a greater voice in civic engagement and influence in neighborhood decisions and development.
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Community Investment Trusts: Fighting Poverty & Racial Inequity Through Democratized Access to Real Estate Investment
Read more about a growing network of CIT projects across the United States. US financial systems were designed to benefit the few. The Community Investment Trust (CIT) was developed by Mercy Corps to open the system by leveraging collective ownership of commercial real estate as a more accessible way to investment. We guide local organizations […]
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East Portland 5th anniversary
East Portland CIT progress 2017-2022 OUTCOMES 2017-2022: 319 investors Over 1,100 people impacted on a family level 500+ graduates of our free “Moving from Owing to Owning” financial action course Total invested: $474,000+ Total cashed out: $74,000+ (45 investors) Gain distributed to community investors: $61,000+ 7.9% average dividend Share price from $10 in 2017- $19.02 […]
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2021 East Portland CIT Dividend Announcement
With 2021 in the rear-view mirror, your East Portland CIT Corporation (Plaza 122) is happy to look forward to growth as the COVID restrictions subside in 2022. Plaza 122 has weathered a turbulent 2021. Turnover of a few old tenants caused increased vacancies , which in turn affected the profitability of Plaza 122 in 2021. […]
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Preparing for the Post-COVID-19 Land Grab
Source: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/preparing-for-the-post-covid-19-land-grab In the wake of the Great Recession of 2008, the tell-tale “We buy homes” signs started going up at seemingly every corner of Atlanta. They promised quick cash during a hard time. What wasn’t clear at first was the true cost of that cash — not just losing one’s home, but entire neighborhoods, to […]