New legislation could accelerate a growing movement of tenants who refuse to be at the mercy of developers and want to take ownership of their communities’ resources.

A new report suggests that Connecticut’s laws make the state well-suited to improve its housing affordability through a little-known but growing model: community land trusts. A community land trust is ...

Some housing advocates and city officials are pushing to use another tool to help address Detroit's shortage of affordable homes: community land trusts. Earlier this spring, the Detroit City Council ...

In Raleigh’s Idlewild neighborhood, where formerly enslaved people once secured land as a foothold to freedom, history is ...

ATLANTA, Ga. — There’s a song lyric that goes: “I wasn’t born but I’m gonna die in Atlanta, GA." JaTawn Robinson may be its human embodiment. Robinson lives in the Pittsburgh neighborhood, a few ...

The B Community Land Trust held its first home lottery Wednesday, selecting two winners and two alternates to be the first ...

Units at Brookside Housing Cooperatives in Waterbury, a co-op built on land owned by a land trust, range in size depending on tenants' needs. Some even have four bedrooms. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A newly renovated two-bedroom, two-bath home in Central Fresno is officially on the market. The estimated cost for the home and property is around $300,000, but the buyer ...

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Canada treats land as a tradeable asset, forgetting it’s the foundation for homes, communities and stability. If the country ...

The federal government announced $61.2 million for the Upper Hammonds Plains Community Land Trust on Saturday. The funding will be used to build 136 co-op housing units in the historic African Nova ...