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Housing matters. A stable, quality, affordable home is a foundation for so many other parts of life. How do we bring it in reach for everyone?
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Affordable Housing Financing Is Overpriced, But It Doesn’t Have to Be
Affordable housing construction finance reflects market norms, but its track record shows it’s far less risky than conventional market-rate housing loans. While lower default rates should lead to lower interest rates, they currently do not.
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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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.
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, […]

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.
