Terra Nostra Press

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Dates of publication: English Edition (1st Quarter 2021)
Edited by John Emmeus Davis, Line Algoed, María E. Hernández-Torrales

Six of the seven essays contained in this monograph were selected from On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust, published in June 2020. A seventh essay, written more recently, was added as a provocative supplement to the others. They are gathered here because of a similar focus on a key challenge faced by community land trusts throughout the world: how to balance competing goals of scale and accountability.

Most CLTs hope to accumulate a large enough portfolio of land, housing, and other buildings to make a major impact on promoting equitable and sustainable development within their chosen communities. At the same time, most CLTs have an ongoing commitment to empowering residents of those communities, providing a mechanism by which they may shape the future of the places in which they live while giving them a voice in guiding and governing the CLT itself. These aspirational goals are sometimes compatible and sometimes not, pulling an organization in opposite directions. Leaders of a local CLT must a find a way to make them work together.

Some of the chapters included in the present monograph directly discuss the tension between these competing goals. Others showcase the work of local CLTs that have been especially effective in resolving this tension to bring impactful development and community empowerment into balance.

• Chapter 1: Tony Pickett & Emily Thaden, “Combining Scale and Community Control to Advance Mixed-Income Neighborhoods.”
• Chapter 2: Harry Smith & Tony Hernandez, “Take a Stand, Own the Land: Profile of Dudley Neighbors Inc. in Boston Massachusetts.”
• Chapter 3: Brenda Torpy, “The Best Things in Life Are Perpetually Affordable: Profile of the Champlain Housing Trust, Burlington, Vermont.”
• Chapter 4: Dave Smith “The London Community Land Trust: A Story of People, Power, and Perseverance.”
• Chapter 5: Line Algoed, María E. Hernández-Torrales, Lyvia Rodriguez Del Valle & Karla Torres Sueiro, “Origins, Achievements, and the Proof-of-concept Example of the Caño Martin Peña CLT.”
• Chapter 6: Olivia Williams, “Community Control of Land: Thinking Beyond the Generic Community Land Trust.”
• Chapter 7: John Emmeus Davis, “Better Together: The Challenging, Transformative Complexity of Community, Land, and Trust.”

Digital and print-on-demand
Date of publication: English Edition (1st Quarter 2021),
Edited by John Emmeus Davis, Line Algoed, María E. Hernández-Torrales

Six of the seven essays contained in this monograph were selected from On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust, published in June 2020. A seventh essay, written more recently, was added to provide a context for the others. They all have a similar focus on using community-owned land to regularize tenure in informal settlements.

Throughout the world, but especially in the Global South, there are millions of people who occupy urban or rural lands – or who make use of land-based resources like water, forests, pastures, and arable fields – without possessing a legally protected, formally registered right to do so. Their tenure is informal and insecure. Displacement looms as an ever-present possibility.

The chapters contained in this monograph discuss various configurations and applications of the community land trust as a strategic response to informality, promoting and protecting security of tenure for vulnerable populations.

• Chapter 1: Patricia Basile & Meagan M. Ehlenz, “Examining Responses to Informality in the Global South: A Framework for Community Land trusts and Informal Settlements.”
• Chapter 2: Line Algoed, María E. Hernández-Torrales, Lyvia Rodriguez Del Valle & Karla Torres Sueiro “Seeding the CLT in Latin America and the Caribbean: Origins, Achievements, and the Proof-of-concept Example of the Caño Martin Peña CLT”
• Chapter 3: Tarcyla Fidalgo Ribeiro, Line Algoed, María E. Hernández-Torrales, Alejandro Cotté Morales & Theresa Williamson, “Community Land Trusts in Informal Settlements: Adapting Features of Puerto Rico’s Caño Martín Peña CLT to Address Land Insecurity in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.”
• Chapter 4: Claire Simonneau & Ellen Bassett, with Emmanuel Midheme, “Seeding the CLT in Africa: Lessons from the Early Efforts to Establish Community Land Trusts in Kenya.”
• Chapter 5: Hannah Sholder & Arif Hasan, “The Origins and Evolution of the CLT Model in South Asia.”
• Chapter 6: Kirby White & Nola White, “A Watershed Land Trust in Honduras: Profile of the Fundacion Eco Verde Sostenible.”
• Chapter 7: Liz Alden Wily, “Challenges for the New Kid on the Block – Collective Property.”

Digital and print-on-demand
Dates of publication: Spanish Edition (1st Quarter 2021)
Edited by John Emmeus Davis, Line Algoed, María E. Hernández-Torrales

Digital and print-on-demand
Date of publication: English Edition (2nd Quarter 2021)
Edited by John Emmeus Davis, Line Algoed, María E. Hernández-Torrales

The four essays contained in this monograph were selected from On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust, published in June 2020. They are gathered here because of a similar focus on the growth of local organizations, national networks, and cross-national communication among community land trusts in England and Europe. Included in the monograph’s contents are the following chapters:

• Chapter 1: Yves Cabannes &Philip Ross, “The Once and Future Garden City.”
• Chapter 2: Steven Hill, Catherine Harrington, and Tom Archer, “Messy Is Good: Origins and Evolution of the CLT Movement in England.”
• Chapter 3: Geert de Pauw & Nele Aernouts, “From Pressure Group to Government Partner: The Story of the Brussels Community Land Trust.”
• Chapter 4: Geert de Pauw & Joaquin de Santos, “Beyond England: Origins and Evolution of the CLT Movement in Europe.”