Community land trusts have attracted far more attention than other niche forms of affordable housing provision despite providing far fewer units than some. Advocates now think the model can provide the kind of longevity and professional oversight that limited-equity cooperatives often lack.
From Mobile Home Parks to Multifamily Housing Cooperatives
As tenants organize to take over their buildings, there's been an increased interest in going the co-op route. Could the networks that support resident-owned mobile home park communities shift their focus to support residents of multifamily buildings that want to go co-op?
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Is an Infrastructure Investment in Housing on Its Way?
The affordable housing industry considers the prospect of unprecedented funding if Biden’s housing as infrastructure plans make it through Congress.
Durham’s Community Land Trust Allows Generations of Families to Continue Living in Their Hometown
CLT works in one of the oldest and largest historically Black neighborhoods in Durham.
You Can’t Carbon Copy Community Ownership
Community development has long made attempts at wealth building, with a focus on trying to find successful or innovative models that can be replicated....
Western Queens CLT: Looking to Start Big, and Not With Residential Units
Western Queens Community Land Trust (WQCLT) was founded in 2019 as the result of a fight against Amazon, which had been eyeing Queens for...
From At-Risk Tenants to Activist Property Owners
A little more than a year ago—while the pandemic raged and the economy cratered—a group of 38 low-income, mostly Black and Brown families won...
Millions of Tenants at Risk of Eviction, Billions in Rental Assistance Undelivered
Updated Aug. 3—After a monthslong game of “kick the ban,” the eviction moratorium issued last September by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Proud Ground: When Land Is Expensive, Look Outside the City
This community land trust focuses its efforts on helping people of color purchase homes across five counties.
Keeping Community Control as Community Land Trusts Grow
When a CLT grows, the “community” it represents can sometimes be more difficult to define. But to some extent it always was.
Community Land Trusts: Combining Scale and Community Control
This is no longer my neighborhood.”
Too often, communities of color that experience new investments report that the changes are a detriment to their lives,...
Champlain Housing Trust: Breadth and Depth
Over 2,400 rental apartments, 600 shared-equity homes, cooperatives, and a couple of hotels for the unhoused—How the largest community land trust in the U.S. scaled up.