Community Land Trust Resource Center: Publications Archives

Starting A CLT Multimedia Kit

This collection of digital files available on CD-ROM is intended to provide tools to policymakers, organizers and activists who are working to create new community land trusts. [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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Shared Equity Homeownership

Over a year ago, the National Housing Institute (NHI) launched an on-going investigation of three models of housing tenure that use durable contractual controls to perpetuate the occupancy, eligibility, and affordability of homes that are owned and occupied by low- and moderate-income households: the community land trust, the limited-equity cooperative, and deed restricted housing with covenants lasting 30 years or more. The findings are contained in a new report authored by Burlington Associates founder John Emmeus Davis entitled Shared Equity Homeownership: the Changing Landscape of Resale-Restricted, Owner-Occupied Housing. [More]

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