Julie Wilson

Executive Director

Common Roots

Julie Wilson is the Executive at Common Roots, a community land trust committed to creating and stewarding sustainable, permanently affordable homes that build wealth and security for low-income residents in Meadville, Pa. Julie has been a leader in the Community Wealth-Building movement and was a 2023 PHFA Kathy Possinger Housing Policy Fellow. 

Common Roots is pioneering new cooperative approaches to developing and maintaining affordable housing. Through their Renting Cooperative and Self-Help Housing programs, community members work together to care for their homes, all while building community, opportunity, and achieving resident ownership and generational wealth through “sweat equity.”