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Even the most sophisticated private and nonprofit partnerships for dealing with vacant property will end up with some properties that don’t pencil out. Land banks can step in to keep those properties from dragging down revitalization efforts.

CLTs’ dependence on external grant funding to acquire land and maintain their operations make them particularly susceptible to mission drift. Coming in with this knowledge, organizers may still be able to use the tool adequately or opt for other collective land ownership strategy.

The Community Land Trust Reader, edited by John Emmeus Davis. Lincoln Institute, 2010, 616 pp. $35 (paper).

A SCOTUS ruling that protects a homeowner’s equity may end up benefiting speculators and hurting land banks.

Lessons from Philadelphia’s Campaign to Take Back Vacant Land

Though the idea of social housing is gaining traction among advocates and policy experts, the path of least resistance for its production in the U.S. is also the path of the perpetuation of residential racial segregation.

What happens when organizers win a campaign for community control of land? That depends a lot on the choices they make about how to exercise that control.

Philadelphia is about to become the largest city in the country with a land bank. A land bank is a nonprofit or government agency whose sole function is to efficiently […]

Communities across the country have taken up the CLT model to confront challenges from gentrification and sprawl to pollution and abandoned housing.

The Caño Martín Peña project has succeeded in building community power and gaining control of land by pioneering the community land trust model.

Agrarian Commons closely resemble community land trusts, but they are unique in that they work collectively to provide long-term affordable and equitable access of small and mid-sized farms.

Vacant land activities can be low cost and high impact; the price of failure is not steep, but the return on investment can be high.