Phone: (603) 524-0747
Fax: (603) 527-2514
lharvey@laclt.org
www.laclt.org

Counties Served: Belknap

Incorporated: 1988

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All of LACLT’s work to date has been within the City of Laconia, where the greatest need and opportunities existed. However, in response to requests from surrounding communities, LACLT has expanded its service area to include the greater Laconia area.

LACLT’s work began when the residents of Laconia’s most run-down, crime-ridden neighborhood asked for help in redeveloping the area. This grassroots effort included many neighborhood meetings, wherein neighbors engaged in the process of planning their new community. Grossly substandard tenement buildings in the neighborhood were demolished and replaced with 7 brand new buildings containing 14 units of affordable family housing, green space, and a playground. LACLT continues to use this model of organizing and inclusion. LACLT has successfully completed the development of 98 permanently affordable units of scattered site rental housing and one single family home. More units are in the development pipeline. Rental units are leased to low to moderate income families at a rate below market.

In addition to developing affordable housing, LACLT manages its own properties, provides resident services, and operates a homebuyer resource center as part of its homeownership initiative.

LACLT’s low to moderate income residents come from a variety of backgrounds. Some are homeless or near homeless. Many are single mothers with children. Residents face a variety of barriers to self-sufficiency and need supportive counseling and a broad array of social services. LACLT strives to make sure its residents in need have access to all the supportive counseling, social services, training opportunities, relationship-building opportunities and leadership opportunities available to them to stabilize their families and overcome their barriers to self-sufficiency.

Under its Homeownership Initiative, LACLT provides financial fitness and first-time homebuyer education classes and helps individuals and families save for down payments through individual development accounts. LACLT is currently seeking to develop additional more permanently affordable single family homes using the community land trust model.