Deborah Martin

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Deborah G. Martin is an urban geographer with interests in place and local politics, and a professor of geography at the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University.

Community Control

Controlling Land Collectively: The CLT Ground Lease Reimagined

May 2, 2018 | Olivia Williams, James DeFilippis, Deborah Martin, Joseph Pierce, Richard Kruger and Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani

Community control often gets conflated with affordability for neighborhoods seeing rising prices, and it’s obviously good to make land stay affordable. But affordability is not the same as democratic decision-making.