community land trusts
protecting our common wealth
market-rate housing prioritizes profit over human need producing displacement, instability, and racialized wealth gaps.
community land trusts protect from market forces by removing land from the market and holding it in common permanently.
homeowners purchase homes affordably, lease the land from the clt, limit resale for permanent affordability, and govern democratically.
clts care for human needs and shift power to communities to reclaim our common wealth.
community land trusts, housing, rematriation, reparations
NPR / 5 Decades Later, New Communities Land Trust Still Helps Black Farmers
David Bollier / Black Commons, Community Land Trusts, and Reparations
Urban Institute / Community Ownership and Self-Determination
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