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
- 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
- Alamo City housing play, west side nonprofits race to lock in affordable homes, Jesse Hoffman, Hoodline (San Antonio), January 27, 2026
- Not-for-profit trust ‘delighted’ to be ‘lead party’ at Les Creux Pavilion, Julien Morel, Jersey Evening Post, January 22, 2026
- Denver unveils new all-electric, ‘permanently’ affordable housing, Deborah Grigsby, Colorado Politics, January 22, 2026
- North Carolina’s community land trusts seek higher profile as affordable housing option, Greg Childress, NC Newsline, January 16, 2026
- Inside London’s new wave of community-led housing, Anastasia Mendini, Future of London, January 6, 2026
- A dream decades in the making: Vancouver’s LGBTQ2+ community centre to open in 2027, Sarah Grochowski, Vancouver Sun, January 5, 2026
- These Refugees Are Developing a First-of-Its-Kind Community Land Trust in San Diego, Roberto Camacho, Next City, January 5, 2025
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.
