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With the intensification of weather patterns resulting from climate change, community land trusts perform vital functions that help people recover.

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

[Editor’s Note: Last Wednesday, Pennsylvania’s governor signed land bank enabling legislation, opening the way for the state’s communities to create land banks to take a more strategic approach to dealing […]

If at first you don’t succeed, partner with a land bank.

How is community control of housing realized? We explore different community ownership structures, how tenants form a cooperative, and how larger housing nonprofits can incorporate residents into decision-making.

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.

In the face of extractive “investments,” communities are exploring creative models that let them both exert control and earn returns themselves.

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

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 […]

Community land trusts, better known for permanently affordable housing, expand into commercial spaces for a wide range of reasons, and in a wide range of ways.

The 50th anniversary of New Communities was an opportunity for celebration and reflection—some of it critical—about the CLT movement.