News & Notes: Community land trusts

Activism in your neighborhood...The City-CLT Parternship

July 17, 2008

As numerous articles will tell you, Community Land Trusts are being called a safe haven from foreclosures. [...]

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Vermont community land trust finalist for World Habitat Awards

April 16, 2008

Champlain Housing Trust, a community land trust serving northwest Vermont, has been recognized as a finalist for the World Habitat Awards [...]

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The community land trust: 'a virtually foreclosure-free safe harbor'

February 7, 2008

The Boston Globe ran an editorial on the success CLTs have had promoting stable and secure homeownership [...]

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categories: Foreclosure crisis, Housing policy, Community land trusts

Boston Globe profiles Dudley Street CLT, a 'shelter from foreclosures'

January 24, 2008

The Boston Globe offers a profile of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a neighborhood group in Boston that has had remarkable success using the community land trust model to foster lower-income homeownership while avoiding the foreclosures that have decimated other working-class neighborhoods. [...]

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categories: Community land trusts, Foreclosure crisis

Why 'It's a Wonderful Life' still matters

by Kyle Julien, Development Director

December 23, 2007

Despite being overworked and cliche, "It's a Wonderful Life" is a movie that says a great deal about the ways we think about homeownership and community investment [...]

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categories: Community land trusts, Housing policy

Community Land Trust mortgages have exceptionally low foreclosure rate

December 3, 2007

Update: The National CLT Network survey is now available. [...]

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categories: Community land trusts, Foreclosure crisis

Shelterforce Magazine looks at limited-equity homeownership

June 14, 2007

The current issue of Shelterforce Magazine, published by the National Housing Institute, focuses on shared-equity homeownership models [...]

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categories: Community land trusts, Housing policy

New study on shared equity homeownership published

October 2, 2006

National Housing Institute has just published a new study on shared equity homeownership by John Emmeus Davis, one of the nation's leading experts on community land trusts. [...]

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categories: Community land trusts, Housing policy

Chicago to form citywide Chicago Community Land Trust

December 1, 2005

The City of Chicago announces plans to create a citywide Chicago Community Land Trust, with major funding from the John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation. [...]

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