community land trusts
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Next City: NYC Opens Door Wide to Community Land Trusts
Next City — Second-generation NYC resident Rosa Custodio was born at Metropolitan Hospital Center, on First Avenue in East Harlem. Growing up on East 103rd Street, Custodio and her sisters sometimes slept out on the fire escape on hot summer weekends, blankets and pillows and all. They weren’t the only ones.
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A Simple, Powerful Premise
Expensive. Unsustainable. Exploitative. This is how community organizers and advocates described the NYC housing market, at “Community Land Trusts: Organizing for Community Control,” the final installment of our 20th Anniversary Workshop Series. The workshop built on themes explored in the previous four sessions – from new economy organizing to shareholder action and community-led research –…
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Testimony before the New York City Council Housing & Buildings Committee
New Economy Project Staff Attorney Eve Weissman testifies in support of legislation that would identify underutilized property in NYC that should be tapped to create deeply and permanently affordable housing, and to serve other community uses such as open, cultural and commercial space.
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The Awl: The Ungentrifiers
The Awl — The NYC Community Land Initiative is an alliance of organizations, led primarily by New Economy Project and Picture the Homeless, that is working to establish community land trusts and mutual housing associations throughout the city, beginning in East Harlem.
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Video: New York, We Got a (Housing) Problem
Posted by Monica Garcia — Have you heard the growing buzz around Community Land Trusts (CLTs)? Across the country, and right here in NYC, groups are coming together to promote CLTs as a way to create truly affordable housing, fight gentrification and give people a voice in how their neighborhoods are shaped.
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NYC, Repeat After Me: “Community Land Trusts”
Posted by Claudia Wilner — On November 17, affordable housing advocates and developers, community groups, and unions gathered at City Hall for a hearing on the Mayor’s plan to create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next 10 years. New Economy Project testified at the hearing on behalf of NYC Community Land…
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Testimony before New York City Council, on Community Land Trusts
On behalf of the New York City Community Land Initiative, New Economy Project urges the City to support the creation and development of community land trusts as a key part of the solution to the affordable housing crisis.
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Picture the Homeless Blog: Talking Trusts: East Harlem Residents Forum on Community Land Trusts
Picture the Homeless — Last week, dozens of East Harlem tenants and residents and shareholders gathered at Taino Towers to figure out how they were going to save their homes – and their community.
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New York Foundation: Homelessness, Community Land Trusts, and the Future of NYC Neighborhoods
New York Foundation — A conversation with Sam Miller of Picture the Homeless.
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Picture the Homeless Blog: Community Land Trusts are a Huge Success at Talking Transition – AND BEYOND
Picture the Homeless — Maybe we’re just a little giddy about the impending regime change here at home, but Picture the Homeless has been so excited to be part of the conversations taking place in the Talking Transition tent down on Canal Street at 6th Avenue.