Community Stewardship for a Changing World
The International Center for Community Land Trusts supports CLTs around the world, advancing community-owned land as a platform for housing, climate resilience, food security and thriving communities.
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Transforming Informal Settlements
How community land trusts can improve informal settlements without displacing the people who live there, with speakers from the Lincoln Institute, UN-Habitat, Puerto Rico, Brazil and Portugal.
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A Community Land Trust Digest: Legal and Social Commentaries
Four decades of writing on CLT history, theory and practice, in one volume.
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CLTs in the News
‘Artist Space Trust’ Opens Applications for Affordable Duplex In SF’s Mission District, Leanne Maxwell, AFiST, October 12, 2026
Lahaina Community Land Trust to steward Kainehe, ʻāina momona that once fed Lahaina people, Maui Now, October 8, 2026
‘Like a miracle’: Chinatown Land Trust on brink of buying its first property, Emma Johnston-Wheeler, Toronto Today, October 7, 2026
150-home, mass-timber development in Huntsville marks Muskoka CLT’s first official housing initiative, Daily Commercial News, October 1, 2026