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)
Join the Global Celebration on May 16
Celebrate community land trusts worldwide by participating in events, sharing stories, and connecting with peers. This event is a chance to spotlight our diverse CLT community, showcase your impactful projects to peers worldwide, and celebrate affordable housing, land justice, and community empowerment. We’re excited to see and hear—in your language—from you and your CLT communities.
Check out the World CLT Day website at worldcltday.org
Just Released!
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy has released a new Policy Focus Report, 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.
Preserving Affordable Homeownership builds on the Lincoln Institute’s 2008 Policy Focus Report The City-CLT Partnership, coauthored by Davis and Rick Jacobus.
CLTs in the News
- Housing reform that pays for itself – and helps future generations, Karl Fitzgerald, Pearls and Irritations, April 13, 2025
- CM Sanchez, Public Advocate Williams Join Organizers, Tenants of 2201-05 Davidson to Celebrate Momentous Ownership Transfer and Call for Citywide Reform, New York City Council, April 8, 2025
- Inside the Community Land Trust Fighting Climate Gentrification in Florida, Riya Anne Polcastro, April 1, 2025
- Wiyot-Led Affordable Housing Projects Will Bolster Eureka’s Downtown Housing Supply with 93 New Units, Isabella Vanderheiden, Lost Coast Outpost, March 28, 2025
- Rhode Island Foundation is fighting back against Trump cuts by awarding millions to local nonprofits, Jack Perry, Providence Journal, March 28, 2025
- The Rise of Community Land Trusts in Hawai‘i, Noelle Fujii-Oride, Next City, March 27, 2025
- Community Land Trust model helps Raleigh veteran achieve homeownership, Greg Childress, NC Newsline, March 21, 2025
- Anchorage Community Land Trust (ACLT) Receives $300,000 Grant From KeyBank for a Shared Commercial Kitchen Incubator, Access Newswire, March 18, 2025
- It’s Time for Funders To Put Their Money Behind Community Ownership, Mike Pollio, Will Delaney, Dawn Phillips & Lorraine Deguzman, Next City, March 17, 2025
- Montreal set to ‘deconstruct’ vacant municipal building for future Louvain eco-district and land trust, Linda Gyulai, The Gazette, March 12, 2025
- McKinsey’s five bold solutions to the affordable housing crisis, McKinsey and Company, March 10, 2025
- Fixing the Housing Crisis Goes Beyond Building More Units, Next City, March 6, 2025 (podcast featuring Maggie Walker CLT)
