On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust is a collection of twenty-six original essays, written by forty-two scholars and practitioners from a dozen countries, tracing the growth and diversification of the international community land trust movement.

The first in our monograph series, which focuses which focuses on the pernicious problem of land tenure insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Why Community Land Trusts:  The Philosophy Behind an Unconventional Form of Tenure, is the second in our monograph series, with six essays exploring various ethical, political, and practical justifications for the community land trust.

Community land trusts have spread far and wide from their origins in the US.  Here's a comprehensive map of CLTs around the world!

Every movement needs its heroes.  It is seeded and spread by extraordinary people doing extraordinary things, pushing out the boundaries of what is comfortable and possible.  The best and brightest are recognized here.

Often called the “first CLT,” New Communities Inc. (NCI) was an outgrowth of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, established to secure greater economic and political independence for African American farmers and their families.

The roots of community land trusts lie in the fertile soil of the US civil rights movement -- with precursors that go back to 1787 -- and now with branches spreading across the globe.