This story is part of our end-of-year campaign celebrating how the CLT Center is working to serve the global CLT movement. This week, we’re highlighting:
Our Collaborators across 2025
Behind every thriving CLT are the people who make it possible: organizers, residents, and local partners. Behind every network are peers learning from one another, strengthening collective experience into shared expertise. And behind every movement is collaboration, the quiet force that turns good ideas into common ground. Progress in the CLT movement doesn’t come from one organization alone. It grows from a network of relationships rooted in trust, generosity, and a shared belief that land should serve people and the planet, not profit.
At the CLT Center, collaboration is both method and mission. Every workshop, webinar, publication, and network call is made possible by the people and organizations who choose to work together across geographies, languages, and time zones. As we close 2025, we celebrate and thank the people and organizations who make this work possible. Below is a noncomprehensive list of organizations that we have worked with throughout the past year. Many appear across levels, as global conveners, regional leaders, and local practitioners, reflecting the deeply interconnected nature of this ecosystem.
Global Collaborators
Local CLTs are generating solutions with real implications for climate resilience, tenure security, and equitable development. Through our global partnerships, we are helping to bring these lessons to international forums, ensuring that community-led models shape broader policy conversations and are recognized for their potential to support just and sustainable futures.
We have ongoing relationships with several global entities including CoHabitat Network, Habitat for Humanity International, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, World Habitat, UN-Habitat, and urbaMonde. Below are quotes from some of our collaborations with them in 2025.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
“This partnership with the International Center for CLTs is one that we value for many, many reasons. This partnership has helped identify research and advance one of the most innovative land policy tools for fostering affordable housing and thriving, dynamic communities—not only in the United States, but around the world.
More recently, it has also opened the Lincoln Institute’s eyes to how CLTs can be applied in the Global South. Through our collaboration with the CLT Center, we’ve been introduced to the remarkable work of the Caño Martín Peña CLT in San Juan, Puerto Rico—showing without a doubt how the CLT model, the idea, the CLT mindset can help secure the livelihoods of communities long marginalized from formal land and housing markets.”
UN-Habitat
“Many policies and legal frameworks don’t yet recognize or support CLTs — or in some cases, they don’t recognize them at all. At UN-Habitat, we’re excited that last year we began working with governmental focal points and ministers through the Housing Forum on adequate housing for all. Within this space, there was recognition that CLTs show tremendous potential, but policymakers still need to strengthen their understanding of the model to effectively support it. Over the next few years, we’ll be focusing much of our attention on this.”
Habitat for Humanity International
“We’re excited to see the growing momentum behind this work. Community land trusts have been evolving for more than 50 years, and it’s inspiring to witness how partnerships like those between CLTs and Habitat for Humanity are helping to take this model even further. There’s so much we can do together to scale lasting affordability in creative, community-driven ways.”
Regional Collaborators
Across regions, collaboration takes shape through networks that connect practitioners, coordinate shared learning, and strengthen collective action. These regional partners help link local experience to broader systems of support, advocacy, and exchange. Below is a noncomprehensive list of the regional organizations we worked with throughout 2025.
- Australian CLT Network (Grounded Australia)
- California CLT Network (USA)
- Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts (Canada)
- Catalytic Communities / Favela CLT Network (Rede Favela CLT, Brazil)
- Community Land Trust Network of England and Wales (UK)
- European Community Land Trust Network (Europe)
- Foncier Solidaire France (FSF)
- Greater Boston CLT Network (USA)
- Grounded Solutions Network (USA)
- Minnesota CLT Coalition (USA)
- South of Scotland Community Housing (SOSCH, Scotland)
- União de Moradia Popular (Brazil)
- Urban Land Conservancy (Colorado, USA)
- Virginia CLT Network (Virginia, USA)
- Cultural Heritage Finance Alliance (CHiFA) (USA)
Local Collaborators
At the local level, collaboration is the heartbeat of this work. While the CLT Center operates globally, our work is shaped by constant dialogue with local practitioners piloting innovative work, organizing neighborhoods, and keeping the CLT movement rooted in real places. Below is a noncomprehensive list of the organizations we collaborated with throughout 2025:
- Bangladesh CLT Exploratory Group (Bangladesh)
- Boston City Council (Massachusetts, USA)
- Bright Community Trust (Florida, USA)
- Caño Martín Peña CLT (Fideicomiso de la Tierra) (Puerto Rico)
- Champlain Housing Trust (Vermont, USA)
- Chinatown CLT (Boston, USA)
- City of Norwalk (Connecticut, USA)
- City of Seattle (Washington, USA)
- CLT Brussels (Belgium)
- CLT Gent (Belgium)
- CLT Mykolaiv (Belgium)
- Community Home Trust (North Carolina, USA)
- Delray Beach Community Land Trust (Florida, USA)
- Development Action Group (South Africa)
- Diamond State CLT(Delaware, USA)
- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (Massachusetts, USA)
- El Enjambre Colectivo (Puerto Rico)
- Grassroots Institute / Housing Mendocino (California, USA)
- Habitat for Humanity Frederick County (Maryland, USA)
- Habitat for Humanity Portland Region (Oregon, USA)
- Hastings Commons (United Kingdom)
- Hempstead Community Land Trust (New York, USA)
- Houston CLT (Texas, USA)
- Housing Trust of the North Bay (California, USA)
- Interboro CLT (New York, USA)
- Kota Kita (Indonesia)
- London CLT (United Kingdom)
- Madison Area CLT (Wisconsin, USA)
- Muskoka CLTt (Canada)
- New York Community Land Initiative (New York, USA)
- Periferico (Portugal)
- Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity (Massachusetts, USA)
- Public Defender’s Office of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
- Rondo Community Land Trust (Minnesota, USA)
- South Los Angeles CLT (USA)
- Southside Community Land Trust (Rhode Island, USA)
- Stadtbodenstiftung (Germany)
- Two Rivers CLT (Minnesota, USA)
- YorSpace CLT (UK)
Academic and Research Institutions
Alongside practitioners, researchers and academics have helped expand the tools, evidence, and frameworks that support CLTs. The institutions below represent partners who contributed scholarship, legal research, and shared learning across 2025.
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (previously mentioned)
- University of Puerto Rico
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
- University of Illinois (Illinois, USA)
- University of Reading (UK)
- Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA)
Law School Collaborations:
- Boston College Law School
- Colorado Boulder Law School
- Fordham University School of Law
- Harvard Law School
- Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
- University of Miami School of Law
- University of Minnesota Law School
- Missouri–Kansas City School of Law
- Northeastern University School of Law
- Tulane University Law School
- University of Oregon School of Law
- University of Puerto Rico Law School
- University of Wisconsin Law School