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A community land trust CLT is a democratically controlled nonprofit organization that owns and controls land to make sure it is used for permanently affordable housng or other purposes that benefit the surrounding community. Creating and sustaining permanently affordable homes has been the dominant focus for Community Land Trusts in the United States. CLTs offer a uniquely useful tool for bringing perpetually affordable homeownership to the single-family home.
Many communities dealing with chronic distortions in their real estate markets are looking to CLTs as a way of fostering economic diversity among their homeowners. CLTs, however, are also being used to control and sustain community open space and sites for productive activity.
Urban farming and other sustainable businesses will be critically important for communities wrestling with chronic disinvestment that leads to vacant and abandoned parcels. CLTs can offer tools for communities to manage very different kinds of market failures. Many housing cooperatives are started by low and moderate-income tenants strongly committed to the ideal of decent housing that is controlled by the residents and forever affordable to people of limited means.
As residents come and go and surrounding property values appreciate, the commitment to affordability can give way to a desire to allow the apartments to be sold to the highest bidder.
Often the loans the coop received require them to stay affordable for a time, but once those restrictions expire, many affordable coops are free to convert to market-rate by a majority vote of people who will benefit financially from the conversion. If a cooperative apartment building is developed on community land trust land, then the cooperative will be subject to a permanent commitment to the whole community to remain affordable forever.
First of all, membership of the CLT is open to anyone living within the boundaries of the community and not only to residents, each group having the responsibility of electing one third of the governing body. Moreover, the board of trustees — normally called Board of Directors — is tripartite and includes representatives of i residents of the trust-owned land, ii members of the community who do not lease land from the CLT, and iii other people who are meant to represent the public interest, such as public officials and non-profit organizations and funders.
The CLT model, including all the features described above, has been given legal recognition into the federal Housing and Community Development Act of , where it is defined as. A acquires parcels of land, held in perpetuity, primarily for conveyance under long-term ground leases;.
For example, this process will require all land- owners to sign the binding covenant document for the creation of the CLT; and the process of drafting the document and seeking input and ownership will need to be a participative and transparent one, in order to win the as- sent of all community members. A cadre of community organizers, including Davis, were responsible for doing the groundwork to prepare rural communities for week-long Health Fairs and for creating community health councils that could find their own solutions to problems of poor health, polluted streams, and environmental degradation caused by strip mining. The community land trust reader Author: Take Back the Land - Max Rameau. Please enter the message. Despite re-appointing a chief for Old Karu i.
B transfers ownership of any structural improvements located on such leased parcels to the lessees; and. C retains a preemptive option to purchase any such structural improvement at a price determined by formula that is designed to ensure that the improvement remains affordable to low- and moderate-income families in perpetuity;.
A includes a majority of members who are elected by the corporate membership; and. The expansion of the CLT movement has been pushed by different factors.
First, non-profit organizations have committed themselves to help groups to identify and reclaim vacant land and turning it into a community resource, as is the case for Acres. Secondly, CLT has been increasingly welcomed by local administrations as a valuable response to the shortfalls of the public housing market.
The formal recognition of CLT by legislation, the growth of a national CLT network, along with the increased attention of public authorities, have also favored the diffusion of the CLT model outside the United States.