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Equity

Anti-Eviction Advocates Want the DOJ to Support the Right to Counsel Movement

The revival of an office within the Department of Justice that is focused on equitable legal representation has tenants’ rights advocates calling on the federal government to do more to strengthen the right to counsel movement.

Community Land Trusts

Cooperatives and Community Land Trusts: Natural Partners?

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

Housing

From Mobile Home Parks to Multifamily Housing Cooperatives

Could the networks that support resident-owned mobile home park communities shift their focus to support residents of multifamily buildings?

Community Land Trusts

Durham’s Community Land Trust Allows Generations of Families to Continue Living in Their Hometown

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

Opinion

You Can’t Carbon Copy Community Ownership

The one constant in all community ownership strategies should be a centering of a particular community’s needs and goals.

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Community Land Trusts

Western Queens CLT: Looking to Start Big, and Not With Residential Units

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

Housing

From At-Risk Tenants to Activist Property Owners

Minneapolis tenants won the right to buy their neglected buildings from a slumlord. They now have about two years to transition to owners.

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COVID

Moratorium Extended: Millions at Risk of Eviction, Billions in Rental Assistance Undelivered

The CDC issued a new eviction moratorium through Oct. 3. Will it be enough time for states to distribute unpaid rental assistance? And how did the 2020 eviction predictions pan out?

Community Land Trusts

Proud Ground: When Land Is Expensive, Look Outside the City

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

Community Land Trusts

Keeping Community Control as Community Land Trusts Grow

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

From the Field

Community Land Trusts: Combining Scale and Community Control

“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, […]

Community Control

Champlain Housing Trust: Breadth and Depth

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.