community land trusts
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Roundup: Albany Day of Action for Public Banking & Housing Justice
New York’s 2023 legislative session is underway, and New Economy Project is working with groups statewide to advance a bold policy agenda that builds wealth and power in Black, brown, and immigrant communities.
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Next City: Why Brooklyn Residents Want Public Land In Public Hands
Next City — New York City is inching closer to passing crucial legislation that would strengthen its community land trust movement. A bill that would give nonprofits and community land trusts the right of first refusal when a private landlord sells residential housing has enough co-sponsors to become law, as does another piece of legislation requiring the…
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Leaving the Speculators in the Rear-View Mirror: Preserving Housing with Municipal Arrears Through Off-Ramps from the Speculation Superhighway
A system to replace NYC’s tax lien sale should advance critical affordable housing and equitable development goals. This report outlines a framework through which New York City can enforce the collection of property tax arrears and other debts, in ways that prevent the displacement of vulnerable homeowners, preserve affordable rental units, and expand the pipeline…
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Take Action for a New Economy!
Do you want to see public banking and community land trusts thrive in New York City? Send a message to your Council Member urging them to pass the “Community Land Act” and the “People’s Bank Act” today.
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Tenant Takeover: How New Yorkers Are Organizing for Community and Resident Control
Learn how New Yorkers are organizing to collectively bring housing under community control.
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City & State NY: As Homeownership Rates Decline in New York City, Could Community Land Trusts be an Answer?
City & State NY — Over the past decade in New York City, a housing shortage, increased investor activity and quickly rising home prices have exacerbated the affordable housing crisis. Today, there are almost no apartments with a monthly rent below $1,500 in the city. Housing advocates and policymakers have been pushing the city to…
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WBAI’s Housing Notebook: Tenant Control
Housing Notebook — Our CLT Campaign Organizer Elise Goldin joins Claudia Waterton, a Bronx tenant association president, and host Scott Sommer to discuss tenant-controlled housing and the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA).
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City Limits: Legislation Would Give Nonprofits First Crack at Developing NYC-Owned Land
City Limits — New York City community land trusts and nonprofit developers could get the first crack at securing publicly-owned land for affordable housing under a new bill introduced by Brooklyn Councilmember Lincoln Restler Thursday.
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Brownstoner: Community Land Trust Wants to Turn NYPD Parking Lots Into Affordable Housing. Can They?
Brownstoner — “We demand — we ain’t asking no more — we demand that HPD turn this big, gigantic lot over to the community. Give it to the East New York Community Land Trust, let us build on it what the community needs, not free parking for the NYPD.”
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Center for New York City Affairs: Community Land Trusts Protect Housing Affordability – and Democracy
In her State of the City address last week, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called for $4 billion in next year’s City budget for affordable housing, nearly tripling Mayor Eric Adams’s proposed investment.