The Big River Community Land Trust is entering into a fundraising effort to move toward purchasing land to develop affordable housing for median-income earners in Hood River and Klickitat County.  The trust’s board chair, Anne Medenbach, says the housing issues in the region is not changing during the pandemic.  They are looking for land via purchase or donation.  Medenbach says they have a goal of acquiring land this year to begin construction next year.  Their concept is to build homes and sell them to qualifying buyers while retaining ownership of the property and limiting how much the homes can be resold for.  Their website is bigriverclt.org.