Established in 2024, the Bakersfield Community Land Trust (BCLT) is a nonprofit public benefit
corporation founded by the City of Bakersfield and community members looking to create a new
tool to help address affordable housing crisis Bakersfield. The BCLT’s mission is to lessen the
burdens of government by assisting City of Bakersfield to ensure that its residents are able to
secure housing by, among other things, developing, constructing, financing, managing, selling,
renting, subsidizing, and monitoring single- and multi-family housing, and to conduct or perform
any ancillary or related activity in furtherance of the foregoing.