Community Land Trusts (CLTs)

RESEARCH RESOURCES

Center for Housing Policy—Shared Equity
www.nhc.org/housing/sharedequity
Working with Rick Jacobus of Burlington Associates and with financial support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Center for Housing Policy has developed a shared equity website that includes an online shared equity tutorial, research papers, and an interactive spreadsheet that allows a user to enter data regarding one’s own community to determine how different shared equity strategies will work based on area home prices and other factors.

Community Land Trust Resource Center
www.burlingtonassociates.com/resources
This website, maintained by Burlington Associates, a community development consulting firm, provides a wide range of community land trust resources, including information on how to start up a land trust, how to finance a community land trust, and public policy issues.

Community Lots
www.communitylots.org/clt
The community land trust section of the Cambridge, MA-based Lincoln Institute for Land Institute, provides for “peer-to-peer” exchange of information on the community land trust model, its challenges and solutions. The web site also includes a resource library with papers about various community land trust issues, conference announcements, and information about industry best practices.

E. F. Schumacher Society: Community Land Trust Directory
www. schumachersociety.org/cltdirectory.html
This site, maintained by the E.F. Schumacher society provides a wide listing of links and descriptions of community land trust organizations across the United States.

Housing Assistance Council, "Community Land Trusts and Rural Housing"
www.ruralhome.org/pubs/CLT/contents.htm
Published in 1993, this study, although somewhat dated, provides a very useful overview of the community land trust model as well as containing four case studies.

Planners Web, "Community Land Trusts: An Introduction"
www.plannersweb.com/articles/pet112.html
Published in 1996, this report gives a solid overview of community land trusts from an urban planning perspective.

Policy Link, "Community Land Trusts"
www.policylink.org/EDTK/CLT
This site provides perhaps the most thorough overview of the community land trust movement, including information about available resources and three case studies.

Troy Gardens Case Study
www.troygardens.net
With the support of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the National Community Land Trust Academy has set up this website as its first case study. A project of the Madison Area Community Land Trust, Troy Gardens provides a useful illustration of what it takes to development a community land trust project because: (1) it includes a wide variety of land uses, (2) it provides a model of conservation-based affordable housing development, and (3) almost every conceivable issue was encountered during the development process.