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Community land trusts provide far fewer units than other forms of affordable housing, but advocates now believe the model can be one possible solution to preserving the affordability of limited-equity co-ops. We take a closer look.

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?

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

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

A new program invests in the belief that community land trusts can become more than a boutique housing solution.

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.

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 Right to the City (RTC), an activist housing justice alliance, has broadened its agenda to include advocating for community land trusts (CLTs) and other permanently affordable housing arrangements. “We were […]

If at first you don’t succeed, partner with a land bank.

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.

Communities across the country have taken up the CLT model to confront challenges from gentrification and sprawl to pollution and abandoned housing.