Land held in trust. Homes at cost. Neighbors for good.

Every Neighborship community is built in the same five steps. The land never goes back on the market, so the cost of living here never chases it.

A parcel is taken off the market and held in trust

1 Land goes into trust

Donated, partnered, or purchased, then held by Neighborship permanently and taken off the speculative market.

Landowners and donors

Lots, utility hookups and a shared commons are laid out

2 Utilities, lots, and a commons

The site is permitted as a state-regulated park, divided into lots, and connected to water, sewer, and power.

Lenders, CDFIs, grantmakers

Homes are set on the lots with decks and landscaping

3 Homes arrive

Professionally built park-model homes with full kitchens and baths, set with skirting, decks, and landscaping.

Home lenders and builders

Neighbors move in and gather in the commons

4 Neighbors move in

Residents buy or rent their home. Everyone pays the same land lease, set at what the site actually costs to run.

Residents and operators

A home turns over and the next neighbor arrives

5 When someone moves on

The land stays in trust and the lease stays at cost, so the next neighbor gets the same deal.

Every future neighbor

Own your home for about what a studio rents for.

Everyone pays the same land lease, set at what it actually costs to run the site. Buy your home or rent it. Either way, the land underneath is never repriced by the market.

Park-model home$90,000
Your share of site setup$40,000
Purchase price$130,000

The land lease covers property taxes, insurance, trash, common utilities, reserves, and management and maintenance. Once your home is paid off, the lease is all you pay.

Illustrative example, not an offer. Ownership payment assumes $130,000 financed at 9% over 20 years; your rate and terms will vary. Oakland's median studio rent was about $1,825 in June 2026 (RentHop).

$1,170
$600

$1,770

a month to own

$1,300
$600

$1,900

a month to rent

the home
land lease

A typical Oakland studio rents for about $1,825 a month.

Why the trust matters

In an ordinary neighborhood, the land under your home is an asset someone can cash out. Here it isn't. The trust holds it, the lease is set by what the site costs rather than what the market will bear, and no outside investor can decide it's time to sell.

That's the whole idea: the homes can move, the neighbors can change, and the deal stays the same.

Neighbors sharing coffee on a deck in a tiny home community

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