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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, and a benefit to newcomers, […]

The community land trust model is in a time of dramatic growth and creativity. Some CLTs are aiming for larger scale than has been typical. How are they doing it?

Community gardens and urban agriculture are crucial gathering places—and revitalizing forces—in neighborhoods with lots of vacancy and low values. But what happens to them when the market turns around?

Land banks and community land trusts (CLTs) are often perceived as one and the same. That doesn’t reflect reality.

CLTs’ dependence on external grant funding to acquire land and maintain their operations make them particularly susceptible to mission drift. Coming in with this knowledge, organizers may still be able to use the tool adequately or opt for other collective land ownership strategy.

What are CLTs? How do they work? What are the benefits and areas of concern? An overview.

What happens when organizers win a campaign for community control of land? That depends a lot on the choices they make about how to exercise that control.

When a CLT grows, the “community” it represents can sometimes be more difficult to define. But to some extent it always was.

With the intensification of weather patterns resulting from climate change, community land trusts perform vital functions that help people recover.

The number of land banks grew dramatically in the wake of the foreclosure crisis. So has our understanding of how to successfully fund them.

The Caño Martín Peña project has succeeded in building community power and gaining control of land by pioneering the community land trust model.

Local governments are embracing community land trusts to promote and preserve affordable housing.