Big River Community Land Trust has begun construction on its first house:  a 13-hundred square foot home on just under at tenth-of-an-acre it acquired from the City of Hood River located near Windmaster Corner.  The land trust is looking to help provide more affordable and middle housing by maintaining ownership of the land while the occupant purchases the house itself.  Trust executive director Alysha Sherburne says they are starting to receiving inquiries about the home, and she hopes to open up applications to the general public in the next six weeks.  Big River CLT has purchased from Faith Bible Church two-point-seven acres on Hood River’s Heights off Belmont and Avalon.  Sherburne says they are working with a consultant to determine how many homes can feasibly be placed on that land.