Community Land Trust (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A community land trust is a nonprofit corporation which acquires and manages land on behalf of the residents of a place-based community, while preserving affordability and preventing foreclosures for any housing located upon its land. Community Land TrustThe community land trust (CLT) is an equitable and sustainable model of affordable housing and community development that has slowly spread throughout the United States during the past 40 years. The CLT model was originated in the United States by Ralph Borsodi and Robert Swann, drawing upon earlier examples of planned communities on leased land including Garden Cities in England, single tax communities in the USA, Gramdan villages in India, and moshav communities on lands owned by the Jewish National Fund in Israel. The prototype for the modern-day community land trust was formed in 1969 near Albany, Georgia by leaders of the southern civil rights movement seeking a new way to achieve secure access to land for African American farmers.