International Center for Community Land Trusts
We are a not-for-profit nongovernmental organization established in 2018 to promote and to support community land trusts and similar strategies of community-led development on community-owned land in countries throughout the world.
Photo of Grupo Esperança community and the Favela-CLT Project (Catalytic Communities, Brazil)
CLTs in the News
- A space of our own: LGBTQ organizations move to ownership, Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce, October 15, 2025
- Denver land trust fights displacement whether it owns the land or not, Amanda Ambrams, Shelterforce, October 14, 2025
- This multi-issue interfaith organizing group has supported six housing co-ops for decades, Jill Webb, Shelterforce, October 9, 2025
- Harnessing the shock of disaster to propel change, Autumn Ness, Shelterforce, October 8, 2025
- What If More Community Land Trusts Made Friends With Banks?, Oscar Perry Abello, Next City, October 7, 2025
- Inside the movement keeping Toronto rent cheap for locals, Gabe Oatley, Toronto Today, October 2, 2025
- Can the Upcycling Trust model help tackle the housing and climate crises at once?, Interreg North-West Europe, September 30, 2025
- Turning equity into affordability: D.C. homeowners are giving back to a next wave of buyers, Frank Navarrete, Shelterforce, September 24, 2025
- A community land trust for people leaving incarceration honors a “forgotten figure” of Black liberation, Frances Nyugen, Shelterforce, September 19, 2025
- When Neighbors Take Ownership of Their Housing Future, Eliana Perozo, Next City, September 18, 2025
- Mixed income, net zero, and fish friendly: innovation at the Southard, Brandon Duong, Shelterforce, September 17, 2025
- Legacy, stability, and the arts: the CLT keeping Bay Area artists housed, Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce, September 16, 2025
Joint Publications with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy has released a new Policy Focus Report, in both English and Spanish, entitled Preserving Affordable Homeownership: Municipal Partnerships with Community Land Trusts, by John Emmeus Davis and Kristin King-Ries of the International Center for Community Land Trusts.
Drawing on insights from 115 community land trusts (CLTs) that were interviewed or surveyed by the International Center for Community Land Trusts, the report explores how CLTs are partnering with public officials to help address the housing affordability crisis. In this innovative model, individuals buy homes on land that is leased from a local CLT and agree to limit the resale price, reducing the upfront cost of homeownership and keeping those homes affordable for one income-qualified household after another.
International Commentaries on Preserving Affordable Homeownership is a collection of six global commentaries reflects on the Preserving Affordable Homeownership Policy Focus Report published by the Lincoln Institute in partnership with the International Center for Community Land Trusts. Featuring perspectives from Australia, Canada, Brazil, Europe, France, and the United Kingdom, the commentaries describe experiences and evolving projects from each area and share insights on what those experiences and projects have in common with—and how they differ from—community land trusts (CLTs) in the United States. The collection reflects a growing international movement committed to reimagining ownership, affordability, and community resilience worldwide.
