WESA
Oliver Morrison
Dany Ricci moved to Pittsburgh from San Francisco a little over two years ago. Ricci was paying for a relatively expensive room in Bloomfield last year when a roommate stopped contributing to the bills and rent. Ricci, who uses they/them pronouns, wanted to be done with renting.
“I just didn’t want my living situation to be at the mercy of landlords or property management companies or roommates or anything like that,” they said.
Ricci was working a temp job and had little savings, but they took a home-ownership class and learned about the City of Bridges Community Land Trust. The nonprofit organization was founded five years ago to help create permanently affordable homes in the city, and people like Ricci are its bread-and-butter: those with reliable if modest income, a decent credit score and enough savings to pay some closing costs.
