community land trusts
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City Limits: NYC Needs Equitable Economic Development, Not The Amazon Deal
City Limits, Op-ed by Deyanira Del Rio and Andy Morrison — Unless you’ve been stuck under a rock – or perhaps on the 7 train – you’ve heard the news: the winner of the Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes is…Amazon. Two hundred and thirty-eight cities competed. Twenty finalists raced to the finish line. Two – New York…
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The Laura Flanders Show: Trump Year 2 – What’s Next?
The Laura Flanders Show — On this week’s Laura Flanders Show, our Co-Director Sarah Ludwig discusses the community-based work being done to counter the Trump administration and create lasting, transformational change.
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City Limits: The NYC Community Land Trust Movement Wants to Go Big
City Limits — The community land trust movement is on the rise in cities across the country from Miami to Oakland, but as of late, the Big Apple arguably ranks among the cities where the movement is most energized. Across the five boroughs, where for the past 20 years there’s been one community land trust…
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2017 Roundup
Check out this two-page snapshot highlighting some of New Economy Project’s work, events, and media coverage during 2017!
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The Nation: The Solution to Our Housing Crisis Is to Let Communities Own Property
The Nation — New York used to be a place where an average Joe could come to make it in the big city, but these days the average New Yorker struggles just to make rent.
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Gothamist: NYC Just Made Its Biggest Commitment Ever To A Radical Affordable Housing Model
Gothamist — City Hall is slowly starting to invest in an affordable housing model that can permanently remove parcels of land from the speculative housing market in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.
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City Limits: City Dips Toe Into Funding Community Land Trusts
City Limits — Four New York City groups will receive a total of $1.65 million in funds from state bank settlements to assist in the development or expansion of community land trusts, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) announced today.
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Let’s Be Real Episode 3: “Who Knows Better Than the People Who Live There?”
This episode, we feature a conversation with Mychal Johnson, co-founder and leader of South Bronx Unite, about the group’s work organizing for sustainable, community-driven development in the Mott Haven & Port Morris neighborhoods of the South Bronx.
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Let’s Be Real Episode 2: Neighborhood Organizing for Community Control
We speak with Nova Lucero and Renzo Moyano, member/organizers from Northern Manhattan is Not For Sale, about their work organizing Inwood and Washington Heights residents against unwanted private development in their neighborhood.
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City Limits: Backers of Community Land Trusts Seek to Broaden Support
City Limits — The community land trust movement is gaining momentum across the city, in part buoyed by the de Blasio administration’s announcement last month that it will consider proposals from community land trusts groups to develop public parcels in several boroughs.