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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs offer reliable stewardship of community land assets and a long-term promise of affordable housing (Davis 2010). Meehan, 2014). CLTs can be found in Irvine CA , Burlington VT (NYU case study here ), Tucson AZ , and Austin TX among others across the country, (Jacobus and Brown 2010). Where have CLTs been established?

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What Causes “Urban Prairies” in Shrinking Cities?

Center for Community Progress

Between 2014 and 2020, the city of Detroit demolished nearly 20,000 vacant properties, mostly single-family homes, adding to the nearly 100,000 vacant lots already dotting the city, the result of earlier demolitions stretching back decades.

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