The CLT Center, Habitat for Humanity and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy discuss the history of the CLT movement in the US, the preservation of affordable housing, and a new policy report on building strong, equitable partnerships between Habitat affiliates and CLTs.
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.
Jeanne Mosseray of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel introduces the Upcycling Trust partnership, in which European CLTs and local authorities use the CLT to renovate existing homes and keep them permanently affordable. In French.
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.
Virginie Schoëff of Community Land Trust Brussels presents the CLT Reno Solidarity Pack, a model for renovating the homes of low-income owners and bringing them into the CLT. In French.
A video featuring Geert De Pauw (Brussels) and Michael LaFond (Berlin).
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.
The Schumacher Center hosted a Community Land Trust Roundtable with three European practitioners: Tom Chance of the National CLT Network, Calum MacLeod of Community Land Scotland, and Geert De Pauw of Community Land Trust Brussels. It was moderated by Natasha Hulst, European Land Commons Program Director at the Schumacher Center.
