Community Land Trust Resource Center: Recent Press: CLTs in the News Archives

British Conservative Party proposal to expand CLTs

The Conservative Party has launched an innovative new drive to extend home ownership by building on a model championed by Martin Luther King, and inspired by the Levellers of the English Civil War. And Shadow Housing Minister Michael Gove is to lead a special taskforce which will investigate how to extend the use of Community Land Trusts in order to halve housing costs for a new generation of first-time buyers.[More]

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Palm Beach Post: Land Trusts Touted for Affordable Housing

Susan R. Miller Palm Beach Post (Florida) November 11, 2006 From South Florida to San Francisco, Americans have been feeling the housing price squeeze -- and it hurts. While many cities and counties, including Palm Beach County, are adopting policies...[More]

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National Public Radio: Buy the House, Lease the Land

All Things Considered, August 1, 2006 · Community land trusts allow first-time buyers to have a house while merely leasing the land it occupies. A trend familiar to towns such as Burlington, Vt., and Boulder, Colo., is spreading nationwide as big cities -- such as Seattle and Chicago -- try to hold on to middle-class homeowners. [More]

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Corvallis OR: Fresh Tactic on Housing

Local land trust could keep some homes affordable Corvallis Neighborhood Housing Services is developing a new way to help people find affordable housing. The non-profit community development corporation plans to create what is known as a community land trust, where people can purchase homes on land that is retained by the trust.[More]

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San Francisco Chronicle: Chinatown Renters Unite

Reaching for the American Dream: Chinatown renters unite to own homes[More]

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Community Land Trusts Come of Age

In the April 2006 edition of "My View", Kim Herman, Executive Director of the Washington State Housing Finance Commission, provides an inside perspective on the growth and success of community land trusts in the state of Washington. This 8-page publication...[More]

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Irvine Land Trust targets nearly 10,000 units

At the March 14 meeting of Irvine City Council, a new housing strategy was approved. The plan calls for the development of the Irvine Community Land Trust to create permanently affordable housing in Irvine. When the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station was annexed, the City established a housing task force. It recommended the City adopt a goal of 9,700 units of affordable housing by 2025 representing approximately 10% of the city's housing stock. [More]

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New York Times:Cut-Rate Homes For Middle Class Are Catching On

Affordable housing, once shorthand for low rents for the poor, is being stretched like never before to include homeownership for people who are more likely to have Starbucks cash cards than food stamps in their wallets. These middle-income earners, priced out of homes from Burlington, Vt., to Santa Fe, N.M., are being offered financial breaks to live in hot real-estate markets and near their jobs.[More]

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Recent Publications

Community land trusts are increasingly being recognized as the preferred approach to local community development initiatives. As a result, CLTs are finding themselves more and more in the news. Here is a partial list of recent publications highlighting CLTs across...[More]

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