Community Owned Real Estate

Our Community Owned Real Estate (CORE) program is aimed at fighting displacement and protecting small businesses in gentrifying neighborhoods by acquiring commercial real estate, getting local tenants into the commercial spaces, and creating pathways for the tenants to eventually become owners.

CORE is a partnership between Inclusive Action, East LA Community Corporation, and Little Tokyo Service Center – with lending support from Genesis LA. CORE currently consists of five commercial buildings on the Eastside of Los Angeles, which are occupied by over 20 tenants.

The goal of CORE is to create pathways for tenant property ownership. We believe CORE is a scalable initiative that can change how we protect our communities from displacement.

Read our case study about the CORE project.

Land Bank

Inclusive Action is administering the LA County Land Bank Pilot – a new County program focused on increasing affordable housing in areas where communities face greater risk of displacement. Through the pilot program, we are working to identify land across LA County to create new affordable housing. Read more about the Land Bank Pilot.

Preventing displacement in Altadena

We are partnering with the California Community Land Trust Network and Altadena community leaders to advocate for funding that will allow local organizations to purchase fire-damaged properties. We aim to support a just recovery from the devastating Eaton fire by preventing predatory speculation and helping keep Altadena lands in Altadena hands. 

We are also partnering with SAJE, Public Interest Law Project, morena strategies, and the Veterans Legal Clinic at UCLA School of Law to conduct research on the risk of post-disaster speculation and opportunities for communities to retain ownership of land in the wake of the Eaton Fire. Read our report, Confronting Disaster: Curbing Corporate Speculation in Post-Fire Altadena.