Wondering what a Community Land Trust is? Look no further.
A video by MarketWatch presents all the background and facts on Community Land Trusts (CLTSs)—a tool used by communities around the country to help keep housing costs down.
The video runs through the market realities that have created the need for tools like CLTs (i.e., high housing costs and low ownership rates), how CLTs work (the key to the affordable housing math is a ground lease), and statistics on the presence of CLTs around the country (225 CLTs around the country that have created around 15,000 affordable houses across the country). The video also lays out the benefits for the CLT model for homeowners.
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Denver Land Trust Fights Displacement Whether It Owns the Land or Not
Tierra Colectiva, a community land trust in the Denver neighborhoods of Globeville and Elyria-Swansea, combines community organizing, traditional CLT development, and more unusual roles in a large affordable housing development.
How a San Francisco Land Trust is Preserving Affordable Housing for Artists
The Artist Space Trust has received $10 million in properties bequeathed by artists that will become permanently affordable housing.
Detroit Launches Community Land Trust
A newly created CLT aims to support the building of affordable housing.
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