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Exploring Community Land Ownership


Exploring Community Land Ownership: Executive Summary

During 2023, the Center for Community Investment (CCI) set out to understand the landscape of shared ownership models for land and real estate as tools for ...

Exploring Community Land Ownership: An Annotated Bibliography

The bibliography provides a basis for policy development, academic research, and community projects, acknowledging that community ownership of land is a complex ...

Community land trusts: An 'old-school' innovation with 'new school ...

At their core, CLTs are based on an alternative conception of property rights and ownership and represent a structural shift that precludes the ...

Understanding Community Land Trusts - Shelterforce

Community land trusts and cooperatives are two of the most prominent models of community ownership, and ones we've written about for many years.

Exploring the Community Land Trust Scheme for Affordable Homes

In the quest to address the housing crisis and promote local ownership, a ground-breaking initiative known as the Community Land Trust scheme is gaining ...

Community Land Trusts | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

The community land trust and the homeowner agree to a long-term ground lease agreement (typically 99 years) that spells out the rights and responsibilities of ...

Exploring Community Land Ownership: An Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography aims to curate a variety of resources focused on the many aspects of community ownership of land, highlighting its benefits, ...

Exploring Community Land Ownership: Executive Summary

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Strategies to Increase Community Control of Land and Housing

Ownership of land and housing has been key to wealth building for generations of Americans. However, racist policies and practices have systematically ...

Community, Ownership, Land: Some Reflections | by Olivia Oldham

Redistributing the balance of who owns land is one way to reform the power dynamics that are central to property relations. Enabling communities ...

Community Land Trusts: An Affordable Housing Solution?

One of the most unique things about CLTs is the separation of land from the ownership of any buildings on the property. The CLT maintains ...

Exploring the barriers to community land-based activities

Each type of activity will, in turn, require different property rights. While the land reform debate has to date been dominated by the advantages and ...

Finding Common Ground: Land Trusts and CLTs Explore New ...

Voters in Massachusetts can opt for their municipality to apply a surcharge on property taxes, which can then be used to fund conservation, ...

“Real Power is in the Land”: Community Land Trusts—Past, Present ...

A recent LISC-led panel brought together leading CLT proponents to discuss the history of community land ownership in America, the rising ...

The Community Land Trust Guide

Exploring the Feasibility of a Land Trust Program. 16. 16. 17. Form of Ownership ... The community land trust is not primarily concerned with common ownership.

Exploring Community Land Trusts as an Alternative to Mainstream ...

CLTs essentially serve as community stewards of land by acquiring the land that the housing is on and maintaining ownership of it through a ground lease ...

Community Land Trusts 101

Community. Spaces. Beyond Housing. Page 16. Split Ownership. CLT's retain ownership of land, enabling them to serve their communities across ...

Introduction to Community Land Trusts | Estuary Institute

Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are neighbourhood controlled nonprofits that take land off the speculative real estate market for the long-term benefit of the ...

The Vital Role of Community Land Trusts in Affordable Housing

... exploring their principles ... : CLTs acquire land and retain ownership of it in perpetuity, ensuring that it remains a community asset.

Equitable Adaptation Legal & Policy Toolkit » Community Land ...

They acquire land through purchase or donation and build new or preserve existing affordable housing or other community assets on the land. Then CLTs sell (or ...