International Center for Community Land Trusts
We are a not-for-profit nongovernmental organization established in 2018 to promote and to support community land trusts and similar strategies of community-led development on community-owned land in countries throughout the world.
Photo of Grupo Esperança community and the Favela-CLT Project (Catalytic Communities, Brazil)
CLTs in the News
- Rondo CLT buys former Sears on Rice Street, St Paul, Zach White, Hoodline Minneapolis, March 20, 2026
- Cohousing promises lower costs. Why hasn’t it worked in the US?, Steve Dubb, Shelterforce, March 20, 2026
- Aspen wants to try new way to preserve local businesses, Lucy Peterson, Aspen Daily News, March 18, 2026
- What Happens Next? Across the country, architects, designers, and organizers deliver affordable housing in response to climate change–induced natural disasters, Isabel Ling, The Architect’s Newspaper, February 24, 2026
- Cooney urges legal basis for Community Land Trusts, The Clare Herald (Ireland), February 21, 2026
- San Antonio approves 2 community land trusts designed to make homes more affordable, Diego Medel, San Antonio Report, February 19, 2026
- Funding to help restore historic African Nova Scotian church as community hub in Digby County, Kathy Johnson, The Tri-County Vanguard, February 12, 2026
- ‘Judging by the Cover’ bookstore relocating from Fresno’s Chinatown, Erik Galicia, The Fresno Bee, February 12, 2026
- Can Artists Help Shape American Cities Again?, Zachary Small, The New York Times, February 11, 2026
- Community land trusts: Building a different kind of wealth, Alice Toomer-McAlpine, Coop News, February 3, 2026
- Power to the parish: can community ownership successfully scale up? Sarah Langford, Financial Times, January 30, 2026
- Lessons from San Juan: Preventing Displacement in Informal Housing, Lauren Lowery, National League of Cities, January 27, 2026
Joint Publications with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy has released a new Policy Focus Report, in both English and Spanish, entitled Preserving Affordable Homeownership: Municipal Partnerships with Community Land Trusts, by John Emmeus Davis and Kristin King-Ries of the International Center for Community Land Trusts.
Drawing on insights from 115 community land trusts (CLTs) that were interviewed or surveyed by the International Center for Community Land Trusts, the report explores how CLTs are partnering with public officials to help address the housing affordability crisis. In this innovative model, individuals buy homes on land that is leased from a local CLT and agree to limit the resale price, reducing the upfront cost of homeownership and keeping those homes affordable for one income-qualified household after another.
International Commentaries on Preserving Affordable Homeownership is a collection of six global commentaries reflects on the Preserving Affordable Homeownership Policy Focus Report published by the Lincoln Institute in partnership with the International Center for Community Land Trusts. Featuring perspectives from Australia, Canada, Brazil, Europe, France, and the United Kingdom, the commentaries describe experiences and evolving projects from each area and share insights on what those experiences and projects have in common with—and how they differ from—community land trusts (CLTs) in the United States. The collection reflects a growing international movement committed to reimagining ownership, affordability, and community resilience worldwide.
