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Nonprofit organizations in San Francisco are using community land trusts to help artists afford housing and combat gentrification. Older artists are donating properties to these trusts, ensuring affordable housing for future generations. The article highlights the historical role of artists in shaping cities and the challenges they face due to rising costs.
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- Nonprofit organizations in San Francisco are using community land trusts to help artists afford housing and combat gentrification. Older artists are donating properties to these trusts, ensuring affordable housing for future generations. The article highlights the historical role of artists in shaping cities and the challenges they face due to rising costs.
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In 2017, the space sold for nearly $2.7 million.If these artists were around today, it\u2019s unlikely that they would recognize the neighborhoods they helped to define. In the years since the tech industry moved into the area, the demand for property has soared. The artists who turned downtrodden streets into desirable enclaves have been priced out of their neighborhoods.But to produce their best work, many artists depend on cities as arenas of creative cross-pollination. And cities, it turns out, need artists, who give them cultural cachet, heighten the quality of living on offer and promote economic growth.So in a region where many young artists struggle to afford rent, much less purchase property, nonprofit leaders have pursued a potentially transformative idea: What if they could curb gentrification by subverting the traditional rhythms of the real estate industry? Trading financial gain for lasting impact, several older artists have donated the houses they bought decades ago to community land trusts, legal entities that can break the cycle of displacement by ensuring properties are handed down from one artist to another at affordable prices.Image\u201cThese properties are permanently removed from the speculative market for real estate and will never return,\u201d said Meg Shiffler, the director of Artist Space Trust.Last year, for instance, a 79-year-old artist in Oakland, Calif., bequeathed the bungalow she purchased in 1978 for $22,700 to a program called Artist Space Trust run by the nonprofits Northern California Land Trust and Vital Arts. When the artist dies or moves out, the home, which is now estimated to be worth more than $1 million, will be converted into a so-called split title, allowing the trust to hold onto the underlying land as it sells the house to another artist at a below-market price. Artist Space Trust will put the proceeds from the sale toward buying additional properties.\u201cThese properties are permanently removed from the speculative market for real estate and will never return,\u201d said Meg Shiffler, the director of Artist Space Trust, which was founded in 2023. \u201cWhen one of our homeowners decides to leave, the property returns to the trust, and through a selection process, we can place another artist or family.\u201dSimilar programs are unfolding across the Bay Area, and not only for housing. The Community Art Stabilization Trust, for instance, is purchasing buildings abandoned by tech companies during the coronavirus pandemic and, following the land trust model, is converting them into low-rent work spaces for arts groups.\u201cThis is about the economic success of San Francisco,\u201d said Shiffler, who worked at the city\u2019s arts commission for 16 years. \u201cBecause if all our artists leave, then we lose our cultural identity.\u201dImageA duplex in San Francisco recently donated to Artist Space Trust is valued at $2.6 millionImageThe two units will be sold to artists for a total of less than $1 million.A Devastating PatternCities have inspired artists for centuries and gained a place in history because of them. There would be no Impressionism without the renegade salons of Paris in the late 1800s; no modernist literature without the gatherings of Bloomsbury Group authors like Virginia Woolf in their London homes in the early 1900s; and no Harlem Renaissance without the migration of Black artists and intellectuals to the Upper Manhattan neighborhood in the 1920s.In the 1960s, it was SoHo, the formerly industrial neighborhood south of Houston Street where artists illegally squatted in lofts, which had been vacated by factories leaving Manhattan to be closer to modern ports.The lofts\u2019 high ceilings and reinforced floors suited early residents like the video artist Nam June Paik and the painter Chuck Close, whose works could reach monumental scales. The artists could pay meager rents \u2014 between $50 and $125 a month \u2014 to landlords who otherwise had empty buildings. They beautified their spaces; many outfitted them with basic plumbing and lighting. Major art dealers, including Leo Castelli, Ileana Sonnabend and John Weber, set up shop around the corner at 420 West Broadway.\u201cEconomic revival historically starts with artists,\u201d said Rafael Mandelman, the president of San Francisco\u2019s board of supervisors. \u201cThe challenge is that if they are successful, it leads to increases in cost and prices for the people who made that happen.\u201dImageThe building at 420 West Broadway, in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, once housed major art dealers.Credit...Nicole Bengiveno\/The New York TimesIn SoHo, artists began to push officials to legalize lofts, and in 1982, New York State enacted its Loft Law, providing rent stabilization to existing tenants and guidelines to landlords for bringing the retrofitted apartments up to code.It was only amid the fallout of the Loft Law, after landlords had passed renovation costs on to tenants, or bought out their leases, that many artists realized they had been priced out of SoHo. A month\u2019s rent for a 1,500-square-foot loft in the neighborhood had shot up to between $1,000 and $2,500 \u2014 some 25 times higher than what artists were paying in the 1960s. Only a small number of long-term residents were able to keep their spots. The SoHo Grand Hotel opened. Prada moved in.\u201cThe story of SoHo\u2019s brief success is that it functioned well as an artist\u2019s colony because of how the illegality repressed the functioning of the commercial market,\u201d said Aaron Shkuda, a Princeton University professor who wrote a book on the gentrification of SoHo.The pattern has repeated itself in other New York areas. A recent report from the Center for an Urban Future, a public policy research group, found that since 2019, Harlem has lost 17 percent of its artists; the Upper West Side has lost nearly 32 percent; and the Lower East Side has lost more than 55 percent. Scholars have identified similar trends taking hold in cities like Chicago, Portland, Ore., and, to be sure, San Francisco.\u201cThe benefit of regulated and permanently affordable artist housing,\u201d Mandelman said, \u201cis that it will not be subject to those vicissitudes.\u201d\u2018A Unique Moment\u2019Image\u201cWe could be the most active player in the real estate market,\u201d said Ken Ikeda, the chief executive of the Community Arts Stabilization Trust.What is happening in San Francisco suggests that artists have learned from the history of gentrification. And many of the nonprofit organizations helping artists acquire properties through land trusts or below-market deals have plans to expand nationwide.\u201cThis is a unique moment where we could be the most active player in the real estate market,\u201d Ken Ikeda, the chief executive of the Community Arts Stabilization Trust, said recently, as he walked through a downtown building on Market Street.ImageThe Community Arts Stabilization Trust recently purchased a building on Market Street, in a troubled San Francisco corridor, for $7.3 million.The building, which the nonprofit has purchased for $7.3 million, was in the middle of a renovation and retained touches from when the tech start-up Zendesk and other firms occupied it. Conference rooms with names like \u201cCurly Fries\u201d and \u201cShark Tooth\u201d looked down on Sixth Street, one of the city\u2019s most troubled corridors, marked by overdose treatment centers, homeless encampments and, frequently, armed police officers.If everything goes as planned, the arts organizations set to work in the building will help revitalize Market Street and then benefit from the downtown resurgence without fear of skyrocketing rents. The Community Arts Stabilization Trust will see the value of its portfolio increase and continue to develop affordable spaces for arts groups.The trust has already announced that its anchor tenant, KALW, a public radio station, will occupy the top two floors of the Market Street building. It has made deals on other properties in the neighborhood for an art gallery and a performance space.ImageA closet in the Market Street building was painted years earlier by an unknown artist.ImageStudio space in the recently acquired building.Ikeda said the model that the nonprofit was establishing in San Francisco was being replicated in cities like Denver, Minneapolis, Tacoma, Wash., and Austin, Texas. Recently, the trust extended its work to property and asset management for affordable artist housing in Colorado.\u201cWe have to look at artists as economic contributors,\u201d Ikeda said, \u201cbecause it\u2019s been an uphill battle for us to shift the cultural perspective around how arts add value to a city.\u201dStudies commissioned by nonprofit organizations, including the National League of Cities, have repeatedly shown that the arts meaningfully contribute to tax revenue and provide employment to hundreds of thousands of workers in cities like Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. A recent study by the National Endowment for the Arts found that between 2022 and 2023 the cultural sector in the United States grew at more than twice the rate of the total economy. Cities with vibrant arts scenes often earn a prestige that attracts visitors \u2014 who, in turn, bring economic rewards.More obvious, perhaps, are the benefits that cities offer artists. A concentration of wealth can mean a prospective art buyer is around the corner; a museum down the block can provide inspiration; and a nearby art supply store can hold the resources needed to make the work.ImageIf everything goes as planned, the arts organizations set to work in the building will help revitalize Market Street and then benefit from a downtown resurgence without fear of skyrocketing rents.Shiffler, the director of Artist Space Trust, said change in San Francisco was mostly coming from older artists who wanted to help their younger counterparts. They recognized that low mortgage payments had given them a sense of security that allowed them to take vital creative risks. And the moment has felt even more urgent as the city loses its private art schools. In January, the last one standing, the California College of the Arts, announced that it was closing.Artist Space Trust\u2019s portfolio includes a duplex valued at $2.6 million. The two units will be sold for a total of less than $1 million, and the trust will offer buyers nearly a third of the price in down payment assistance.\u201cNone of our donor-artists have stopped working. Many are low-income themselves,\u201d Shiffler said. \u201cBut they know the only reason they could stay in the Bay Area was housing security, and they want that for future generations, too.\u201dZachary Small is a Times reporter writing about the art world\u2019s relationship to money, politics and technology.A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 15, 2026, Section AR, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: Helping Artists Find a Footing In Pricey Cities. 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The small house on Russell Street where Jack Kerouac worked on โOn the Roadโ in the 1950s now has an estimated value of more than $1.7 million โ far beyond what any respectable Beat poet could have paid for two bedrooms in San Francisco.Not far away, Janis Joplinโs one-bedroom pad in Haight-Ashbury would rent for some 20 times what it most likely went for in the late 1960s, according to property records.And the studio where the photographer Dorothea Lange worked near San Franciscoโs Union Square now has a price tag higher than what most artists these days can afford. In 2017, the space sold for nearly $2.7 million.If these artists were around today, itโs unlikely that they would recognize the neighborhoods they helped to define. In the years since the tech industry moved into the area, the demand for property has soared. The artists who turned downtrodden streets into desirable enclaves have been priced out of their neighborhoods.But to produce their best work, many artists depend on c...
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Real Estate , History ๐ a1164f68-7599-4fe0-8000-66a4efbad248Simplified: House on Russell Street where Jack Kerouac worked has estimated value of more than $1.7 million
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Real Estate , History ๐ a1164f68-97c2-4052-ab4f-323eb3037d67Simplified: Janis Joplinโs one-bedroom pad in Haight-Ashbury would rent for 20 times more than in the late 1960s
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Real Estate , Art ๐ a1164f68-baa5-47aa-98cd-762d1e04733eSimplified: Dorothea Lange's studio has a price tag higher than what most artists can afford
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Simplified: The space sold for nearly $2.7 million in 2017
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Real Estate , Economics ๐ a1164f68-f765-4fa4-a070-2f7ee87396e3Simplified: Demand for property has soared since the tech industry moved into the area
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Art , Real Estate ๐ a1164f69-17f9-46e4-84e8-999f9fc9a086Simplified: Artists who turned downtrodden streets into desirable enclaves have been priced out of their neighborhoods
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Simplified: Many artists depend on cities as arenas of creative cross-pollination
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Simplified: Properties are permanently removed from the speculative market for real estate
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Art , Real Estate ๐ a1164f69-bfe6-493f-b125-619971242d44Simplified: A 79-year-old artist bequeathed a bungalow purchased in 1978 for $22700 to Artist Space Trust
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Simplified: When the artist dies or moves out the home will be converted into a split title allowing the trust to sell the house to another artist at a below-mark...
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Real Estate , Organization ๐ a1164f6a-02e5-4039-8f07-8e57567a233bSimplified: Artist Space Trust will use sale proceeds to buy additional properties
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Organization , Art , Real Estate ๐ a1164f6a-4bf3-45c9-ba0e-ba7b57bdd883Simplified: Community Art Stabilization Trust is purchasing abandoned buildings and converting them into low-rent work spaces for arts groups
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Simplified: If artists leave San Francisco will lose its cultural identity
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Simplified: Two units will be sold to artists for less than $1 million
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Art , Literature , History ๐ a1164f6a-f624-48b6-99dd-5ce7148cb0e3Simplified: Impressionism would not exist without Paris salons in the late 1800s modernist literature would not exist without Bloomsbury Group gatherings in the e...
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ History , Art , Real Estate ๐ a1164f6b-1a23-4a9a-9dfa-099f0578d416Simplified: In the 1960s SoHo was where artists illegally squatted in lofts vacated by factories
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Art , Architecture ๐ a1164f6b-4ff2-4556-b1c9-1d3243e0e771Simplified: Lofts' high ceilings and reinforced floors suited early residents like Nam June Paik and Chuck Close
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Art , Real Estate ๐ a1164f6b-6b9b-43ef-b36b-3fcb3d6e4bf2Simplified: Artists could pay meager rents between $50 and $125 a month
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Art , Architecture ๐ a1164f6b-93e6-46d8-8d24-8b4a2197dcd1Simplified: Artists beautified their spaces and outfitted them with plumbing and lighting
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Simplified: Major art dealers set up shop at 420 West Broadway
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ Law , Real Estate ๐ a1164f6c-0da6-4295-a95b-624d8a577d9dSimplified: In 1982 New York State enacted its Loft Law providing rent stabilization and guidelines for landlords
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๐ค Aaron Shkuda ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6c-4613-4d05-a60a-ed62e6f21f90Simplified: Illegality repressed the functioning of the commercial market
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๐ค The Center for an Urban Future ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ statistical ๐ a1164f6c-6588-43de-b5e7-0918ae68f568Simplified: Harlem has lost 17 percent of its artists since 2019
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6c-b0a9-49de-bc1a-9d3ce5e17868Simplified: Scholars identified similar trends taking hold in cities like Chicago Portland Ore and San Francisco
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๐ค Mandelman ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6c-ccb0-47d4-8cfd-9ee7467537c6Simplified: Regulated and permanently affordable artist housing will not be subject to those vicissitudes
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๐ค Ken Ikeda ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6d-0015-45ec-a192-443733ef6c1aSimplified: Ken Ikeda said Community Arts Stabilization Trust could be the most active player in the real estate market
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6d-2f5d-404f-bf83-aefbdb2e7974Simplified: Nonprofit organizations helping artists acquire properties through land trusts or below-market deals have plans to expand nationwide
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6d-64fb-4ed2-8d16-b8ecfb97fdc9Simplified: The building was in the middle of a renovation and retained touches from when Zendesk and other firms occupied it
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6d-a501-475b-b10e-4ba137ff90fbSimplified: The trust announced KALW a public radio station will occupy the top two floors of the Market Street building
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6d-c6ed-494f-ac7c-07b7eb200b6fSimplified: The trust made deals on other properties in the neighborhood for an art gallery and a performance space
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๐ค Ikeda ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6d-e26e-4235-8931-656aceb6aebdSimplified: The model the nonprofit was establishing in San Francisco was being replicated in cities like Denver Minneapolis Tacoma Wash and Austin Texas
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6e-03ba-497d-bdc5-910b4ab62836Simplified: The trust extended its work to property and asset management for affordable artist housing in Colorado
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Simplified: Studies show the arts meaningfully contribute to tax revenue and provide employment to hundreds of thousands of workers in cities like Los Angeles New...
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๐ค National Endowment for the Arts ๐ News Article ๐ท๏ธ statistical ๐ a1164f6e-59f1-4723-9eea-fe66a117f03eSimplified: Between 2022 and 2023 the cultural sector in the United States grew at more than twice the rate of the total economy
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6e-a306-4391-8f56-16cc286f16c0Simplified: A concentration of wealth can mean a prospective art buyer is around the corner a museum down the block can provide inspiration and a nearby art suppl...
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๐ค Shiffler ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6e-ca45-4219-8b8d-4be0e423358eSimplified: Change in San Francisco was mostly coming from older artists who wanted to help their younger counterparts
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6e-e892-4823-8f23-f43f0e2c00feSimplified: Low mortgage payments gave them a sense of security that allowed them to take vital creative risks
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6f-0500-443b-86c7-26c370b55654Simplified: The moment has felt even more urgent as the city loses its private art schools
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๐ค The author ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6f-20c2-4941-9f7d-01afc016581bSimplified: In January the California College of the Arts announced that it was closing
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๐ค Shiffler ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6f-6e46-49fd-8f73-e31b156ff7c6Simplified: Donor-artists have not stopped working
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๐ค Shiffler ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6f-8d1f-4d9b-a93f-03ae997abb38Simplified: Many donor-artists are low-income themselves
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๐ค Shiffler ๐ News Article ๐ a1164f6f-b0ac-4d47-bee7-6eb81b06206aSimplified: The only reason they could stay in the Bay Area was housing security and they want that for future generations too