How would it feel to actually own the dirt under your feet?
How would it feel to actually own the dirt under your feet?
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From an initial study for communal architecture to to the creation of a Community Land Trust (CLT), learn how a group of leaders brought HOME home.
Community land trusts are a proven model for communities to control land and its development.
Community land trusts (CLTs) are nonprofit organizations governed by a board of CLT residents, community residents and public representatives that provide lasting community assets and shared equity homeownership opportunities for families and communities. CLTs develop rural and urban agriculture projects, commercial spaces to serve local communities, affordable rental and cooperative housing projects, and conserve land or urban green spaces. However, the heart of their work is the creation of homes that remain permanently affordable, providing successful homeownership opportunities for generations of lower income families.
The Rent is too high, but we can solve it:
Owning our homes on Community Land Trust.
Community Land Trusts help us get free by ...
Perpetual Affordability, Not a Countdown
Other affordable housing programs quietly expire after 10, 20, or 30 years—or die the moment a family moves out. A CLT locks affordability into the land itself. One family buys below market rate, sells at a fair return, and the next family inherits the same opportunity. Forever. Not a loan. A lineage.
Every Dollar Stays in the Community
Because CLTs are owned by nonprofits, they don't bleed money into tax coffers or shareholder dividends. The wealth they generate doesn't leave. It compounds where it matters: in the neighborhood that built it.
One Piece of Land, a Whole Ecosystem
A single CLT isn't just housing. It's a small business incubator, a park, a farm, a rental unit, a co-op, a home. The land doesn't serve one purpose—it serves the entire web of needs around it.
Power Lives Where the Consequences Do
The people who breathe the air, walk the streets, and raise children on that land hold the pen that writes its future. The board is split three ways: one-third residents, one-third neighbors, one-third public stewards. No distant boardroom. No absentee landlord. Just the people who have to live with every decision, making every decision.
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