Champlain Housing Trust

community land trust and affordable-housing nonprofit

Champlain Housing Trust

Industry Housing

A community land trust and affordable-housing nonprofit in northwestern Vermont providing shared-equity homes, rentals, and housing stewardship. Champlain Housing Trust scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and governance has stronger accountability than peers, and no current penalty outweighs that structure.

Why this matters: Champlain Housing Trust is a strong housing option because the land-trust model structurally protects affordability instead of treating housing as pure investment inventory.

Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 59* A - Good

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material59
Bonus+0
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap59
Penalties0
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Evaluation Overview

A - Good

The score turns mainly on Ownership; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.

Strengths

  • Ownership9/10
  • Governance8/10
  • Extraction8/10

Penalties

  • No penalties applied in this version.

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims3
  • Direct axis claims3
  • Coverage3/9

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
9 / 10

Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership.

Linked evidence
  • Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership. [1]
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
8 / 10

Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership.

Linked evidence
  • context Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership. [1]
  • context Champlain Housing Trust provides affordable rental, ownership, and housing-stewardship options, supporting Product Integrity for housing needs. [2]
  • context The community land-trust model preserves affordability and limits speculative extraction, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. [3]
Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
8 / 10

Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership.

Linked evidence
  • context Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership. [1]
  • context Champlain Housing Trust provides affordable rental, ownership, and housing-stewardship options, supporting Product Integrity for housing needs. [2]
  • context The community land-trust model preserves affordability and limits speculative extraction, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. [3]
Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
5 / 7

Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership.

Linked evidence
  • context Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership. [1]
  • context Champlain Housing Trust provides affordable rental, ownership, and housing-stewardship options, supporting Product Integrity for housing needs. [2]
  • context The community land-trust model preserves affordability and limits speculative extraction, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. [3]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
7 / 7

Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership.

Linked evidence
  • context Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership. [1]
  • context Champlain Housing Trust provides affordable rental, ownership, and housing-stewardship options, supporting Product Integrity for housing needs. [2]
  • context The community land-trust model preserves affordability and limits speculative extraction, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. [3]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
7 / 7

Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership.

Linked evidence
  • context Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership. [1]
  • context Champlain Housing Trust provides affordable rental, ownership, and housing-stewardship options, supporting Product Integrity for housing needs. [2]
  • context The community land-trust model preserves affordability and limits speculative extraction, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. [3]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
5 / 5

The community land-trust model preserves affordability and limits speculative extraction, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment.

Linked evidence
  • The community land-trust model preserves affordability and limits speculative extraction, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. [3]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

Champlain Housing Trust provides affordable rental, ownership, and housing-stewardship options, supporting Product Integrity for housing needs.

Linked evidence
  • Champlain Housing Trust provides affordable rental, ownership, and housing-stewardship options, supporting Product Integrity for housing needs. [2]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
5 / 5

Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership.

Linked evidence
  • context Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership. [1]
  • context Champlain Housing Trust provides affordable rental, ownership, and housing-stewardship options, supporting Product Integrity for housing needs. [2]
  • context The community land-trust model preserves affordability and limits speculative extraction, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. [3]

Penalties

No penalties applied in this version.

Bonus Credits

No bonus credits applied in this version.

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 70/100

3 verified linked claims 3 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 3/9 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 20/20

3 verified linked claims

Source quality 12/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 6/18

3 direct claims across 9 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 3/10

3/9 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1Champlain Housing Trust is a community land trust and nonprofit affordable-housing steward, describes conduct considered under Ownership.

Ownership Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

2Champlain Housing Trust provides affordable rental, ownership, and housing-stewardship options, supporting Product Integrity for housing needs.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

3The community land-trust model preserves affordability and limits speculative extraction, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

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