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Creating a Community Land Trust
The City-CLT Partnership
Based on a review of three dozen municipal programs and in-depth interviews with local officials and CLT practitioners, this report describes the mechanisms and methods that cities across the country are using to structure their investment in CLT startups, projects, and operations. In addition to describing the full range of options for providing municipal support, the report highlights specific model practices for rendering that assistance.[More]
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Starting a CLT: Organizational and Operational Choices
The community land trust is a model of great versatility, leading to wide variation in the ways in which the CLT is structured and applied. Starting a Community Land Trust: Organizational and Operational Choices is an introductory manual prepared by John Emmeus Davis. It describes those decisions that matter the most in the early days of planning a CLT – choices that every sponsor of a new CLT must make. It presents the range of options for making each decision and reviews the pros and cons that should be weighed in selecting one course of action over another. These are choices of purpose, program, and scope that precede more technical deliberations over bylaws, ground lease, resale formula, and the like – topics covered elsewhere in publications like the CLT Legal Manual and the many materials posted by Burlington Associates on its CLT Resource Center. [More]
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Chapter 1 of Starting a CLT: The Diverse World of CLTs
The community land trust (CLT) is a model of great versatility, leading to wide variation in the ways in which the CLT is structured and applied. The key features of the “classic” CLT are described in the present chapter, along with the model’s most common variations. [More]
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Chapter 2 of Starting a CLT: Rationale
The CLT’s ability to serve individual interests and community interests that are often in conflict is a key to understanding the model’s proliferation and appeal. Benefits do not accrue only to a fortunate few at the expense of the larger community – nor vice versa. Such a “balanced property arrangement” allows the CLT to be used in many different settings, addressing a variety of needs. The most common reasons for starting and supporting a CLT are reviewed in the present chapter. [More]
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Chapter 3 of Starting a CLT: Sponsorship
Community land trusts have been started by grassroots activists, public officials, other nonprofit organizations, or private employers. Sponsorship, in this context, refers to the entity that provides the impetus for a new CLT and plays the leading role in getting it organized. [More]
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Chapter 4 of Starting a CLT: Service Area
CLTs are place-based organizations. They develop their projects and draw their members from a community that is geographically defined. This service area may be small or large, urban or rural. It may encompass a single neighborhood, several neighborhoods, an entire city, an entire county, or, in a few cases, a multi-county region. This chapter considers the advantages and disadvantages of service areas of different sizes.[More]
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Chapter 5 of Starting a CLT: Education and Organizing
CLTs depend upon a broad base of political, financial, and professional support for the survival of their organizations and for the success of their unusual approach to land and housing. Building that base by systematically educating and recruiting key constituencies is one of the most important tasks facing a new CLT.[More]
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Chapter 6 of Starting a CLT: Development
CLTs use a variety of development strategies to bring land and housing into their price-restricted domain of permanent affordability. Seven such options are described in the present chapter, followed by a consideration of outstanding issues that are raised by each.[More]
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Chapter 7 of Starting a CLT: Funding
CLTs make use of a variety of funding sources in supporting both their projects and their operations. The most common and lucrative of these sources are described in the present chapter, followed by a consideration of issues peculiar to CLTs with regard to project funding and operational funding.[More]
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Chapter 8 of Starting a CLT : Special Topics
This chapter reviews the experience to date of CLTs in the United States in tackling five special topics including: variations in the type and tenure of the buildings that may be located on a CLT’s land; the role of CLTs in preserving the affordability of condominiums; variations in a CLT’s board of directors; donations of real estate to CLTs; and the assessment of local property taxes on a CLT’s lands and buildings. [More]
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Pros & Cons of Regional CLT Development
Community land trusts historically developed as neighborhood-based initiatives. Increasingly, there is a move for CLTs to serve larger geographic areas - entire cities, counties and multi-county region. There are clear advantages and disadvantages of these larger geographic service areas for...[More]
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Educating and Organizing Key Constituencies
It is essential for CLTs to build the broadest base of awareness and support. There are any number of approaches a CLT can take to educate and recruit key individuals and essential interests. We see three different ways of sequencing...[More]
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Roles and Responsibilities of Community Land Trusts
There are many responsibilities required in the operation of a community land trust. Determining who is responsible for which tasks is a critical first step towards creating - and operating - a succesful CLT. Click here to download a sample...[More]
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Key Decisions for a New Community Land Trust
Many decisions face a group or organization that has determined to create a community land trust. Here is a list of the most critical decisions and tasks to start a CLT.[More]
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Options for Structuring the CLT Organization
There are number of ways by which the corporate structure of a community land trust can be organized - each with distinct advantages and disadvantages. This chart outlines the major options for structuring a CLT. Download chart...[More]
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