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Committed to creating and stewarding community-centered housing and economic opportunities.

06/11/2026

"Life's a lot easier when you know your neighbors, and it's even easier when you share things with your neighbors."

05/01/2026

📣 Neighbors! Give to Lincoln Day is May 28!

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🔗 givetolincoln.com/nonprofits/prclt

🏠 Please consider NeighborWorks Lincoln and/or Prairie Roots Community Land Trust as one of your giving priorities this year. We set an ambitious goal of raising $30,000 to help more Lincoln families achieve the goal of homeownership. The best part? Gifts received between May 1 and May 28 make an even bigger impact thanks to a match fund made possible by Lincoln Community Foundation.

09/05/2025

Take a look at these drone photos of our 12-home project at 46th & Pioneers!

As a mixed-income project, 7 of the 12 homes will be sold at prices affordable to first-time buyers at 80% or less of Lincoln's median income. These same properties will become part of the Prairie Roots portfolio and remain permanently affordable—sale, after sale, after sale. The remaining 5 homes will be sold at market rate.

Photos courtesy of Tracy Hoffman, Hoffman Photography.

06/20/2025

The crew at Blake Builders is rockin' & rollin' on NeighborWorks Lincoln's 12-unit, mixed income, rowhouse project at 46th & Pioneers. The first sales are anticipated early this Fall and 7 of these beautiful homes will stay in the PRCLT portfolio, offering permanently affordable homeownership opportunities.

For more info, head over to prairierootsclt.org.

06/17/2025

Earlier this month, we had the opportunity to connect with fellow affordable housing developers, financiers, and community partners at the Reignite2Unite Omaha Development Symposium.

A thank you to Spark CDI for inviting us to hold a session, and to the folks who joined us to discuss the journey so far!

06/12/2025

We're proud to partner with the Lincoln Housing Authority. This home--built by students from Lincoln Northeast High School under the supervision of instructor Bob Freese--will be sold via the Prairie Roots Community Land Trust, ensuring affordability buyer after buyer.

05/29/2025

It's Give to Lincoln Day!

A gift to Prairie Roots Community Land Trust will help create permanently affordable housing and economic opportunities in Lincoln. 🧡🏠 givetolincoln.com/nonprofits/prairie-roots-community-land-trust

05/20/2025

Prairie Roots CLT would be nothing without the "C" - Community.

The former "Pete's" I.G.A. Store at 31st and U Streets is part of the PRCLT. As we've been exploring funding options to find a more formal role for the building as a neighborhood asset, Hartley neighbors have reached out and stepped up!

Last weekend, the building was the site for a plant swap pop-up! Organized by and for neighbors, we're always happy to see spaces support work to strengthen the neighborhood!

What would you like to see happen in an empty building in your neighborhood? Leave a comment below.

05/16/2025

Today is World CLT Day!

While the context and uses of community land trusts differ from place to place, all CLTs act as stewards of crucial assets for a community - whether it's affordable housing, community gardens, or civic spaces. CLTs keep these foundations of a community accessible and affordable.

The first modern CLT, New Communities, Inc., was founded in Georgia as a prototype pioneered by Black civil rights activists to provide a model of collective ownership for former tenement farmers.

The movement has since spread world-wide with examples of functional community land trusts spanning the globe. We're proud to be a piece of that history-in-the-making as the first community-governed CLT in Nebraska!

Learn more about World CLT Day and the history of community land trusts at worldcltday.org/about-clts/

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Credit: Debbie Elliott

05/09/2025

Hello, Lincoln!

We're Prairie Roots Community Land Trust (PRCLT) — a subsidiary of NeighborWorks Lincoln.

We are a community land trust dedicated to creating permanently affordable housing and economic opportunities in our city. Rooted in sustainability and community empowerment, our mission is to ensure that every Lincolnite has a stable and affordable place to call home.

We're here to create something different — something lasting. By placing land under community stewardship we protect affordability, prevent displacement, and build stronger neighborhoods from the ground up.

Stay tuned for updates on our projects, opportunities to get involved, and stories from neighbors working together to make Lincoln a place where we can all thrive.

To learn more about how a CLT works check out this video created by our friends Grounded Solutions Network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWzmZjym8d4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fgroundedsolutions.org%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE

Address

2530 Q Street
Lincoln, NE
68503

Telephone

+14024777181

Website

https://prairierootsclt.org/

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