Community Land Trusts (CLTs)
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ARTICLES-PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES
David Abromowitz and Roz Greenstein, “A foreclosure-free option,”
Boston Globe, January 23, 2008.
article-abromowitz-greenstein.pdf (84KB)
Frank S. Alexander,
“Neighborhood Stabilization & Land Banking,” Communities &
Banking, Boston, MA: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, May 2009.
article-alexander.pdf (180KB)
Kate Alexander, “Taking the price of land out of the price of homeownership
City, community groups look at new way to foster affordable homes by removing
land from the equation,” Austin American-Statesman, June 29, 2005
article-alexander.pdf
(82KB)
Tom Angotti, with Cecilia Jagu, Community Land Trusts and Low-Income Multifamily
Rental Housing: The Case of Cooper Square, New York City, prepared for the Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy, New York, NY: Hunter College, City University of New
York, 2006.
article-angotti.pdf
(296KB)
Tanya Caughey, New National Community Land Trust Network Established To Make
Housing Affordable in More Communities Across America, posted in My Town: Colorado,
Boulder, CO: Thistle Community Housing, July 25, 2006.
article-caughey.pdf
(75KB)
John Emmeus Davis, “Shared Equity Housing: Designed to Last,” Boston,
MA: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Communities & Banking, Fall 2009, pp.
29-31.
article-davis09.pdf
(430KB)
Lisa Engle, "Land Trusts," Community Investments, October 2002, pp.
3-5
article-engle.pdf
(100KB)
Daniel Fireside, “Community
Land Trusts Keep Prices Affordable – For Now And Forever,” Bainbridge
Island, WA: YES! Magazine, Fall 2008.
article-fireside.pdf (260KB)
Jim Gray, “Shared Equity Gains Acceptance in Affordable Multifamily Development,”
Commercial Mortgage Insight. Waterbury, CT: Zackin Publications Inc, May 2008.
article-gray.pdf (170KB)
Rosalind Greenstein and Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz, “Community Land Trusts:
A Solution for Permanently Affordable Housing,”Land Lines, January 2007,
pp. 8-13.
article-greenstein.pdf
(240KB)
Janet Hamer, “CLTs Keep Housing Affordable,” Partners in Community
and Economic Development, vol. 16, no. 3 (2006).
article-hamer.pdf
(208KB)
Kim Herman, Community land trusts come of age, Seattle, WA: Washington State
Housing Finance Commission, April 2006.
article-herman.pdf
(1.3MB)
Sarah Hovde and John Krinsky, “Watchful Stewards: Mutual Housing Associations
and Community Land Trusts Preserve Affordable Housing.” Shelterforce Onlinwww.community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/cdfis/index.htmle.
www.nhi.org/online/issues/92/mha.html
Vanessa Hua, “Reaching for the American Dream: Chinatown renters unite
to own homes,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 25, 2006.
article-hua.pdf
(77KB)
Institute for Community Economics (ICE), Frequently Asked Questions, Springfield,
MA: ICE, no date.
www.iceclt.org/clt/cltfaqs.html
Tim McKenzie, “The Case for Plan B,” Shelterforce, Fall 2007, issue
151.
article-mckenzie.pdf
(192KB)
Wayne Nelson, “Growing Land Trust nonprofit uses unique development
style.” BusinessNorth.com. June 2, 2004.
article-nelson.pdf
(100KB)
Judy Newman, “Balancing the Cost: Shared equity home ownership addresses affordable housing needs,” On Common Ground, Winter 2008, pp. 10-15.
article-newman.pdf (850KB)
Gus Newport, "The CLT Model: A Tool for Permanently Affordable Housing
and Wealth Generation." Poverty & Race, January-February 2005.
article-newport.pdf
(112KB)
Winton Pitcoff. “Affordable Forever: Land Trusts Keep Housing
Within Reach” Shelterforce Online. Issue #121: January-February
2002.
www.nhi.org/online/issues/121/LandTrusts.html
PolicyLink, Community Land Trusts: Tool in Action.” Oakland, CA: Policy
Link, no date.
www.policylink.org/EDTK/CLT/action.html
Larry A. Rosenthal, “Innovations in Housing Policy: The Evolving Role
of Local Government,” Community Investments, September 2005, pp. 9-11.
article-rosenthal.pdf
(108KB)
Skipper G. StipeMaas, “Realizing the Promise of Manufactured Homes in
Georgia: A Community Land Trust Model,” Housing Facts and Findings, vol.
7, no. 4 (2005).
article-stipemass.pdf
(100KB)
Catherine Toups, “Boston’s Dudley Triangle.”
Building Blocks, winter 2000, volume 1, issue 2.
www.knowledgeplex.org/kp/text_document_summary/
article/relfiles/bb_0102_toups.html
Susan Witt. Regional Responsibility for Farm Land, Great Barrington,
MA: E.F. Schumacher Society, 1995.
article-witt.pdf
(70KB)
BOOKS
OPAL Community Land Trust, Of People And Land: Telling Our Stories,
Building Homes, Creating Community. Eastsound, WA: OPAL Community
Land Trust, 1999.
Robert S. Swann, The Community
Land Trust: A Guide to a New Model for Land Tenure in America, Cambridge, MA:
Center for Community Economic Development, 2007.
book-swann-et-al.pdf (11.6MB)
PAPERS
David Abromowitz, “Addressing Foreclosures: A Great American Dream Neighborhood
Stabilization Plan,” Washington, DC: Center for American Progress and
Enterprise Community Partners, January 31, 2008.
paper-abromowitz.pdf (5.4MB)
Frank S. Alexander, Land Banking as Metropolitan Policy, Washington, DC: The Brookings
Institution, October 2008.
paper-alexander.pdf (160KB)
Emily Bergeron, “Community Land Trusts: Using Historic Preservation for
Affordable Housing in the Florida Keys,” In Contributions of Historic
Preservation to the Quality of Life in Florida, edited by Timothy McLendon et
al., chapter prepared for the Florida Department of State, Division of Historical
Resources, Bureau of Historic Preservation, Gainesville, FL: University of Florida,
November 2006, Chapter 7.
paper-bergeron.pdf
(120KB)
Lynette Boswell, Building
upon Neighborhood Markets and Strengthening Middle-Market Neighborhoods: Exploring
the Healthy Neighborhood Initiative as a Strategy to Forestall Decline in Flint’s
Neighborhoods, Flint, MI: Genesee County Land Bank Authority, December 2007.
paper-boswell.pdf (840KB)
Community Land Trust Project, Community Land Trusts: A Primer for Local Officials,
Detroit: MI: Community Legal Resources, 2005.
paper-community.pdf
(252KB)
Erica Foldy and Jonathan Walters, The Power of Balance: Lessons from Burlington
Community Land Trust, New York: NY Research Center for Leadership in Action,
Leadership for a Changing World, Wagner School, New York University, December
2004.
paper-foldy-waters.pdf
(188KB)
Tasha Harmon, Integrating Social Equity and Growth Management: Linking Community
Land Trusts and Smart Growth, Springfield, MA: Institute for Community Economics,
2003.
paper-harmon.pdf
(764KB)
Institute for Community Economics (ICE), Recommendations to the Millennial
Housing Commission, Springfield, MA: ICE, June 29, 2001.
paper-ice.pdf (151KB)
Rick Jacobus, Shared Equity, Transformative Wealth, Policy Brief, Washington,
DC: Center for Housing Policy, April 2007.
paper-jacobus.pdf
(392KB)
Rick Jacobus and Jeffrey Lubell, Preservation of Affordable Homeownership:A
Continuum of Strategies, Washington, DC: Center for Housing Policy, April 2007.
paper-jacobus-lubell.pdf
(288KB)
Cara Letofsky, Building Affordable Housing From the Ground Up: Developing a Community Land Trust in Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Community Land Trusts Initiative, summer 2002.
paper-letofsky.pdf (340KB)
Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz and Rosalind Greenstein, A National Study of Community Land
Trusts, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2007.
paper-sungu-erylimaz-greenstein.pdf (700KB)
Dwan Packnett, The First Homes Community Land Trust, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute
of Land Policy, 2005.
paper-packnett.pdf (270KB)
*NEW*
Carla J. Robinson, Valuation and Taxation of Resale-restricted, Owner-occupied
Housing, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2008.
paper-robinson.pdf
(250KB)
Susan Witt and Robert Swann. Land: The Challenge and Opportunity.
Great Barrington, MA: E.F. Schumacher Society, 1992.
paper-witt-swann.pdf
(39KB)
REPORTS
Frank S. Alexander, Land Bank Authorities: A Guide for the Creation and Operation
of Local Land Banks, New York: Local Initiatives Support Corporation and Fannie
Mae Foundation, April 2005.
report-alexander.pdf
(740KB)
Margaret Bass et al., Vacant Properties: The True Cost to Communities: Washington,
DC: National Vacant Properties Campaign, August 2005.
report-bass-et-al.pdf
(613KB)
John Emmeus Davis and Amy Demetrowitz, Permanently Affordable Homeownership:
Does the Community Land Trust Deliver on Its Promises? A Performance Evaluation
of the CLT Model Using Resale Data from the Burlington Community Land Trust,
Burlington, VT: Burlington Community Land Trust, May 2003.
report-davis.pdf
(680KB)
John Emmeus Davis and Rick Jacobus, The City–CLT Partnership Municipal Support for Community Land Trusts, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, June 2008.
report-davis-jacobus.pdf (2.4MB)
John Emmeus Davies and Alice Stokes, Lands in Trust; Homes that Last: A Performance
Evaluation of the Champlain Housing Trust, Burlington, VT: Champlain Housing
Trust, 2009.
report-davis-stokes.pdf
(5.3MB)
John Emmeus Davis, Shared Equity Homeownership: The Changing Landscape of
Resale-Restricted,Owner-Occupied Housing, Montclair, NJ: National Housing Institute,
2006.
report-davis2.pdf
(1.2MB)
*NEW*
Nigel G. Griswold and Patricia E. Norris, Economic Impacts of Residential
Property Abandonment and the Genesee County Land Bank in Flint, Michigan, Report
#2007-05, East Lansing, MI: Land Policy Institute, Michigan State University,
April 2007.
report-griswold-norris.pdf
(1.8MB)
Tasha Harmon and Carri Munn, CLT Scale Capacity Building Report, report completed
for CLTs in the Portland Metropolitan Region regarding "getting to scale,”
Portland, OR: Tasha Harmon and Carri Munn, 2007.
report-harmon-munn.pdf
(1.4MB)
*NEW*
Rick Jacobus and Ryan Sherriff, Balancing Durable Affordability and Wealth Creation:
Responding to Concerns about Shared Equity Homeownerships, Washington, DC: Center
for Housing Policy, June 2009.
report-jacobus-sherriff.pdf
(570KB)
Joseph Schilling, Lisa Schamess and Jonathan Logan, with John Kromer, Lucinda
Flowers, Kermit Lind, and Lee Sobel, Blueprint Buffalo Action Plan, Washington,
DC: National Vacant Properties Coalition, November 2006.
report-schilling-et-al.pdf (1.4MB)
Kelly Weiss, The Community Land Trust Report: Creating Permanent Affordable
Homeownership Opportunities in Austin, Texas. Austin, TX: City of Austin, July
2005,
report-weiss.pdf
(364KB)
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