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Atlanta Land Trust—From Central Server to a Centralized CLT
If at first you don’t succeed, partner with a land bank.
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If at first you don’t succeed, partner with a land bank.
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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.
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What are CLTs? How do they work? What are the benefits and areas of concern? An overview.
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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.
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Community land trusts provide far fewer units than other forms of affordable housing, but advocates now believe the model can be one possible solution to preserving the affordability of limited-equity co-ops. We take a closer look.
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With the intensification of weather patterns resulting from climate change, community land trusts perform vital functions that help people recover.
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The Community Land Trust Reader, edited by John Emmeus Davis. Lincoln Institute, 2010, 616 pp. $35 (paper).
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Communities across the country have taken up the CLT model to confront challenges from gentrification and sprawl to pollution and abandoned housing.
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Comprehensive community initiatives borrow heavily from various community development models but at the same time are unique in their structure, strategies, and ambitious goals.
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Local governments are embracing community land trusts to promote and preserve affordable housing.
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In Montana, small family farms are disappearing at an alarming rate, and farmers and ranchers are unable to compete with giant agriculture mergers. But there are several ways to help improve the farmland accessibility issue.
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Ohio’s largest conservation land trust has been accused of purchasing a manufactured housing community with the very intention of closing it, evicting more than 100 households in the process. But proponents of the park’s closure say the land’s failing infrastructure—and the benefit the property will bring to an entire city—is what forced the decision.