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Book Talk: A Community Land Trust Digest — Legal and Social Commentaries

May 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm UTC-4

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The Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP) at NYU Tandon and the International Center for Community Land Trusts co-hosted a launch event for A Community Land Trust Digest: Legal and Social Commentaries, the first collection of articles on community land trusts with a legal focus, and a joint publication of the American Bar Association and Terra Nostra Press.

Contributors and editors joined for a discussion on what the book offers practitioners, attorneys, and advocates, and how its materials can support CLTs in New York City and beyond.

Speakers

  • Sheila R. Foster, Professor of Climate, Columbia Climate School
  • Manny Patole, Industry Assistant Professor, Center for Urban Science + Progress, NYU Tandon
  • Kristin King-Ries, Founder, King-Ries LLC — co-editor of the Digest and lead creator of the CLT US State Law Database
  • Boris Santos, President and Community Member Director, East New York Community Land Trust

About the Book

Over the past 50 years, the number of CLTs in the United States has grown from a handful in the 1970s to more than 350 today. Lawyers have been essential to this growth — assisting with incorporation, fine-tuning ground leases, negotiating with lenders and public funders, and contributing to the CLT literature alongside planners, architects, community organizers, and housing practitioners.

A Community Land Trust Digest brings together a selection of these previously published articles — appearing in print between 1982 and 2023 — for the first time in a single volume. Tracing the CLT model’s roots in the US Civil Rights Movement through its modern applications, the book features contributions from scholars and practitioners at Columbia, Yale, Notre Dame, UT Austin, UC Irvine, Vermont Law, NYU, Boston College, the University of Puerto Rico, and more.

Co-edited by Kristin King-Ries, Eliza Platts-Mills, and John Emeus Davis, the Digest is aimed at readers being introduced to CLTs for the first time as well as experienced practitioners looking to go deeper.

Purchase the eBook using discount code ICCLT30 for 30% off. Buy here →