Joseph Pierce

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Joseph Pierce is an assistant professor in geography and planning at the University of Oklahoma, with research interests in housing, urban governance, and place-making.

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.