Job Description SUMMARY: The Director of Rental Housing Services is responsible for overseeing the experience of people applying for and renting housing from OPAL Community Land Trust. The position provides some direct service to renters who ask for support, supervises the team who provides direct services to renters; and collaborates with other staff members and […]
Pea Patch Community Campus Takes Shape
Housing Construction to Begin this Fall The Pea Patch Campus is beginning to be shaped into the community we’ve been imagining. Over the summer, local contractor Island Excavating completed site preparation, utility connections, stormwater management (no, that big hole in the ground is not a swimming pool!) and laid the foundation for a new entry […]
Meet Bethany Hansen
OPAL’s New Expense Accountant & CRM Specialist! We’re excited to welcome Bethany Hansen to the OPAL team as our new Expense Accountant & CRM specialist! Bethany is no stranger to Orcas Island. Raised here, she returned to the island after building her career in accounting and business operations within the renewable energy and infrastructure industries. […]
Construction on the Pea Patch Community Campus has Begun!
Summer update on site work and fundraising success Summer is in full swing and so is the site work to prepare the Pea Patch Community Campus for construction! You may have noticed some big piles of dirt: the current work effort by local contractor Island Ex includes utility connections, stormwater retention installation and construction of […]
Walk the OPAL Neighborhoods with Rusty Diggs
OPAL Community Land Trust invites community members to lace up their walking shoes and join longtime OPAL homeowner, historian, and storyteller Rusty Diggs for a guided tour of OPAL neighborhoods this summer.
Lydia Lane:
Five New Homes on Lydia Lane by Year End OPAL will soon begin its first new single-family home construction since 2010 — five three-bedroom, two-bath houses on five lots purchased in 2020 on Lydia Lane near Rosario. Most of the funding is already in place, thanks to state and county grants totaling $1,875,000. The modular, […]
Caring for People and Land: Bartel Road Forest
OPAL’s Bartel Road property is home to an “ecologically valuable” forest with many old growth trees born one or two centuries ago. The trees provide “habitat for birds, small mammals and insects”, filter the air and absorb carbon emissions. To guide stewardship activities and future housing development on the property, OPAL engaged Rain Shadow Consulting […]
Site Work is Underway at Pea Patch Community Campus!
The unified social services hub meets critical needs for food, shelter and wellbeing With the buds and blooms of Spring, Pea Patch Community Campus is also coming alive! Site work has begun and construction of the 20 new rental townhomes is scheduled for late summer. The campaign to build Pea Patch is gaining momentum with […]
OPAL Welcomes Four New Board Members: Annual Meeting and Election Results
OPAL Community Land Trust warmly welcomes four new members of the Board of Trustees, who were elected by unanimous vote of the members in attendance at OPAL’s 36th Annual Meeting on April 23. The newest additions to the OPAL Board include: Timi Most, Karimah Salaam, Carla Shanks Morales, and Brett Lensing. Incumbent Board Member Bob Morris […]
From Surviving to Thriving
For Rylee Heppe, housing has never simply meant four walls and roof. It has meant uncertainty.It has meant packing up and wondering how long “home” would last. Growing up in Arizona, Rylee’s family moved often. When her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and couldn’t work, they were evicted from their childhood home. From there, […]
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