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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). CLT homeownership helps to protect property values from economic shocks—both the property owned by the trust and other properties nearby (Decker 2018, Nelson 2020). Where have CLTs been established? Davis, John E.,

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Changing Narratives and Engaging Communities Toward Better Policy: New York City’s Low-Density Neighborhoods Event Recap

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Data analyzed by the Furman Center shows that the city’s lowest-density community districts take up 44.7 What’s more, the research finds that the lowest-density community districts added housing at only half the rate of the city overall between 2010 and 2020. percent of the city’s population.

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