Community Land Trusts

Are policy changes enough to address the housing problems we face?

Over the last two decades homeowners and investors have increasingly treated housing as a financial asset, like stocks or bonds. How has this changed the housing market for the worse, and how can we fix it?

As communities across the country begin promoting density to address the affordable housing crisis, they must grapple with how that housing will be built, and for whom.

In the face of limited financing options, local governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises are experimenting with ways to make affordable ADUs a reality.

A few cities in the U.S. are addressing homelessness by experimenting with different financing vehicles that are helping to preserve and construct more supportive housing.

Can the community land trust model provide the kind of longevity and professional oversight that limited-equity cooperatives often lack?

CLT works in one of the oldest and largest historically Black neighborhoods in Durham.

After Amazon’s plan for a worker campus in Queens fizzled, activists fought to launch a community land trust for various uses.

This community land trust focuses its efforts on helping people of color purchase homes across five counties.

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

“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, […]

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.