Sustainable Housing for Inclusive and Cohesive Cities (SHICC), World Habitat and the International Center for Community Land Trusts (today the CLT Center) partnered to present the first International Community Land Trust Festival, from September to December 2021. The Festival was a series of online events, some live and some prerecorded, all free of charge, and it included the first World CLT Day on October 29, 2021.

The Festival was the culmination of four years of work by SHICC, funded by the European Union. SHICC sponsored the events in September; the events sponsored by the CLT Center and World Habitat continued into December.

Festival events

Six of the nine events were recorded, and each of those has its own page with the recording, the description, the presenters and their slides. The three sessions hosted by SHICC were not recorded.

• September 13 · Combining CLTs and Other Models of Collective Ownership
  Hosted by the CLT Center · Recording in English, French and Spanish
• September 14 · Impactful Development and Community Empowerment
  Hosted by the CLT Center · Recording in English, French and Spanish
• September 23 · Peer-to-Peer Exchange: Advanced
  Hosted by SHICC · No recording available
• September 23 · Peer-to-Peer Exchange: Beginners
  Hosted by SHICC · No recording available
• September 24 · European CLT Conference
  Hosted by SHICC · No recording available
• September 27 · Building the Beloved Community
  Hosted by the CLT Center · Recording in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish
• October 21 · The Experience of CLTs in Latin America
  Hosted by Caño Martín Peña CLT and Catalytic Communities · Recording in English, Portuguese and Spanish
• December 2 · “Beyond Housing” Applications of the CLT Model
  Hosted by the CLT Center · Recording in Spanish
• December 7 · CLTs and Community Organizing
  Hosted by the CLT Center · Recording in English and Spanish

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About SHICC

SHICC (Sustainable Housing for Inclusive and Cohesive Cities) was a European project that aimed to develop, support and disseminate the CLT/OFS model in Europe. It was structured around three main themes: recognition of the legitimacy of the model; creation of a financial and legislative environment conducive to the establishment and expansion of CLT/OFS; and capacity building for existing and emerging CLT/OFS.

The Festival was made possible by the support of the SHICC project and the Brussels-Capital Region.