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: Terra Nostra Press Every movement needs memory. Like the lands and homes that CLTs steward…
This story is part of our end-of-year campaign celebrating how the CLT Centeris working to serve the global CLT movement. This week, we’re highlighting the: Global South CLT Initiative The most significant experience of CLTs in informal settlements begins in…
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:…
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: World Community Land Trust Day The idea for World CLT Day first emerged in 2019.…
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: The Climate Justice Initiative The climate emergency is no longer a distant threat: it’s here,…
This year, the International Center for Community Land Trusts is launching its first-ever end-of-year campaign — an opportunity to reflect on what we’re building together and the relationships that make this work possible. Across the world, CLTs are proving that…
By Jonas Lagander, Coompanion Coompanion took part in this year’s Collaborative and Social Building and Living conference in Borås, Sweden, and hosted two seminars on CLTs. Together with other relevant partners, they are involved in the project “Local innovation systems around the barriers to…
By Tarcyla Fidalgo In October 2025, as part of the Global South CLT Initiative at the CLT Center, Project Lead Tarcyla Fidalgo visited Buenos Aires, Argentina, to exchange ideas on affordable housing, tenure security, and collective land ownership. The visit…
John Emmeus Davis spoke to attendees of the 2025 Midwest CLT conference on the past and possible future of the US CLT movement, and what we can do to navigate these challenging times. This is a transcript of his extemporaneous remarks.
In an era marked by housing crises, extractive land markets, and growing inequality, communities across the globe are reclaiming the commons. At the 2025 International Social Housing Festival in Dublin, Ireland (June 4–6), the European Community Land Trust Network will…