Ashley Allen (Houston CLT), Carlos Sanchez-Gonzales (South Baltimore CLT) and Jason Webb (Grounded Solutions Network) discuss engaging young people and raising up youth leadership in community land trusts.
The presenters from the September Upcycling Trust webinar return for a panel discussion on working with existing homeowners to upgrade their homes, stabilize their tenure, and bring them into the community land trust.
Staci Horwitz presents Project Sustained Legacy, City of Lakes Community Land Trust’s work in Minneapolis upgrading the homes of existing homeowners and bringing them into the CLT.
This multimedia case examines the impact of Burlington, VT’s affordable housing strategies on the Old North End (“the ONE”)—a historically low-income neighborhood which boasts a robust stock of affordable housing while facing rising costs of living and demand for housing. It traces the history of Burlington’s efforts back to the 1980s, when the city government under then-mayor Bernie Sanders established programs and policies to produce affordable housing and combat gentrification and displacement.
A discussion with executive director Julius Kimbrough Jr.
A documentary about the Champlain Housing Trust produced by the Sanders Institute.
The LISC Institute hosted a conversation with Shirley Sherrod and community land trust leaders from Baltimore, Houston, New York City, and Seattle, reflecting on how CLTs can help combat Black land loss and displacement, build community wealth, and strengthen community health and care, and the support needed to scale and sustain this work over multiple generations.
The Schumacher Center for a New Economics hosted a virtual Community Land Trust Roundtable highlighting two practitioners tackling the problem of land access in island communities: Sandy Bishop of Lopez Community Land Trust on Lopez Island, Washington, and Philippe Jordi of Island Housing Trust on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Shared equity housing models are a specific type of housing strategy that create permanently affordable homes, build wealth for families, and create vibrant, inclusive and equitable communities.
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.
