development and preservation of high-quality, affordable and environmentally sustainable housing so people can thrive in the community where they live and work
from causing prices to rise significantly, and guarantees that structures remain affordable for the community by separating the ownership of land and the structures
"The value of the improvement so far exceeded the value of the natural earth, at that time, as to absorb it; till, in the end, the common right of all became confounded into the cultivated right of the individual. But there are, nevertheless, distinct species of rights, and will continue to be, so long as the earth endures.” ~ Thomas Paine