The CLT Center, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and partners launch a policy brief on community land trusts as an alternative to individual titling in informal settlements, with experiences from Brazil, Puerto Rico and Portugal.
A discussion centered on Our Land, Our Survival (Terra Nostra Press) about communities defending collective land against climate disasters, speculation, militarization and extractive investment, including Barbuda’s land defenders and the Caño Martín Peña CLT.
Grabación en español de la conversación sobre Our Land, Our Survival (Terra Nostra Press): comunidades que defienden la tierra colectiva frente a desastres climáticos, especulación, militarización e inversión extractiva.
English version of the roundtable hosted by Puerto Rico’s Colectivo de Gestión Colectiva de la Tierra with the Caño Martín Peña CLT and El Enjambre Colectivo on designing collective land tenure from community aspirations. Part of the 2026 Global CLT Virtual Summit.
Mesa redonda del Colectivo de Gestión Colectiva de la Tierra en Puerto Rico, con el Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña y El Enjambre Colectivo, sobre cómo diseñar soluciones de tenencia colectiva de la tierra desde las aspiraciones comunitarias. Parte de la Cumbre Virtual Global de CLT 2026.
John Davis, María Hernández Torrales, and Gus Newport from the Center for CLT Innovation speak with the staff of Ndifuna Ukwazi (Cape Town, South Africa) about community land trusts.
Este video presenta un conversatorio guiado por estudiantes del Pro Bono Caño/CAUCE con representantes de los tres fideicomisos comunitarios de tierras creados en Puerto Rico hasta la fecha. Cada uno de estos fideicomisos utiliza elementos comunes para cumplir con objetivos similares, pero diferentes.
World Habitat presented a panel discussion on the role of the community land trust in securing land rights for residents of informal settlements. Panelists included Mariolga Juliá Pacheco and Don José Caraballo of the Caño Martín Peña CLT, Puerto Rico; Theresa Williamson of the Favela CLT / Catalytic Communities, Brazil; and Khalid Hussain and Rabeya Rahman of Community-Led Development of the Urdu-Speaking Bihari Camps, Bangladesh. Line Algoed of the Center for CLT Innovation moderated, and Mariangela Veronesi of World Habitat hosted.
María E. Hernández Torrales, of the Center for Community Land Trust Innovation, interviews David Ireland of World Habitat and Jerry Maldonado of the Ford Foundation about their contribution to On Common Ground.
Contributing author (and CLT Center staff member) Dave Smith interviews the three co-editors of On Common Ground: Line Algoed, John Davis, and María E. Hernández Torrales.
