Community Land Trust (CLT) Tools

Note the eight sources below are individual chapter sections that form part of a manual written by John Emmeus Davis of Burlington Associates.
Full listing is: John Emmeus Davis, Starting a Community Land Trust: Organizational and Operational Choices, Burlington, VT: Burlington Associates in Community Development LLC, January 2007.

Individual chapters/sections are accessible below:

• Chapter 1: The Diverse World of Community Land Trusts:
  tool-1-diverse-world.pdf (240KB)
• Chapter 2: Rationale:
  tool-2-rationale.pdf (204KB)
• Chapter 3: Sponsorship:
  tool-3-sponsorship.pdf (248KB)
• Chapter 4: Service Area:
  tool-4-service-area.pdf (232KB)
• Chapter 5: Education and Organizing:
  tool-5-ed-and-organizing.pdf (244KB)
• Chapter 6: Development:
  tool-6-development.pdf (228KB)
• Chapter 7: Funding:
  tool-7-funding.pdf (252KB)
• Chapter 8: Special Topics:
  tool-8-special-topics.pdf (304KB)

John Emmeus Davis, Starting a Community Land Trust: Organizational and Operational Choices, Burlington, VT: Burlington Associates in Community Development, 2007.
tool-burlington-startingCLT.pdf (600KB)

For more information, see the Community Land Trusts (CLTs) Support Page in our Strategies & Models Panel.