Black Community Land Trust
| Case Study Name | Location | Context | Student name |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Helena Island – Protecting a Cultural and Historic Treasure. Open Land Trust | St Helena Island, South Carolina | Rising property taxes, heirs’ property ownership, economic pressures from mining industry and tourism development. | Delandra Clark |
| New Communities | Southwest Georgia | Farm land trust, agribusiness and educational cooperative | Sarah Lipuma |
| Maggie Walker Community Land Trust | Richmond, VA | Lack of affordable housing in the metropolitan area of Richmond due to rising home prices and gentrification. | Nabila Bustillos-Francis |
| Douglass Community Land Trust | Washington D.C. | Inclusive and equitable development and preservation of permanently affordable housing, local small business, and public assets | Hannah Smith |
| Crescent City Community Land Trust | New Orleans, LA | Rising home prices and historical institutional racism within the city | Austin Thompson |
| Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative | New Orleans, LA | Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative, a nonprofit housing and community development organization, was established in 2008 in order to support and contribute to the building of safe and affordable housing for low and moderate income residents residing in Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans, LA. | Jae In Oh |
| Dudley Neighbors Incorporated | Boston, MA | Born as a community movment to hold on to 1,300 parcels of abandoned land. Dudley Neighbors Incorportated aims to develop without displacing and has built 225 new homes, urban farms, and other community assets for Roxbury Neighborhood of Boston. | Davis Turner |
| Black Family Land Trust Inc. | Salter Path, NC | Founded in 2004 BFLT was created by 40 individuals from the African American Community. The Land Trust is dedicated to preserving and protecting land that belongs to underserved communities | Sierra Kabir |
| Kingston Land Trust | Kingston, NY | Founded in March of 2008, KLT was focused on protecting important natural and cultural environments in the local community. It's a relatively small land trust with under $400,000 in assets. | Will Beam |
| Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust | New England and upstate New York | Hybrid model land trust, bringing together a community land trust model and a conservation land trust model to reimagine land access as well as conservation and stewardship of communities and ecosystems | Angela Hessenius |
| Houston Community Land Trust | Houston, TX | Work to make homeownership available for limited-income residents of the Houston area. Also focus on permanent affordability of homes. | Ross Petersen |
| Africatown Community Land Trust | Seattle, Washington | The mission of Africatown Community Land Trust Mission is to acquire, develop and steward land in Greater Seattle to empower & preserve the Black Diaspora community. | Kendall Yount |
| Southside Community Landtrust | Providence, RI | The land trust was formed to serve low-income neighborhoods that have little access to fresh and affordable foods in South Providence, RI. Before establishing the land trust, not only was the community amidst a 'food desert,' but many vacant lots were contaminated with lead from demolished houses, requiring new soil to be brought in for site remediation. Over 85% of the population that the land trust now serves are below the poverty line. With over 25 different languages, Providence, Rhode Island, is a unique and diverse community. | Elizabeth Howard |
| Oakland Community Land Trust | Oakland, CA | Mission: To expand and preserve housing and economic development opportunities for Black, Indigenous, other communities of color, and low-income residents of Oakland. Founded in 2009 as a direct impact to the housing foreclosure crisis, The Oakland Community Land Trust focuses on the lack of affordable housing and impacts from climate change as two of its biggest challenges. | Brenden Drumm |
| Sacramento Community Land Trust | Sacramento, SC | SacCLT prevents displacement and builds historically discriminated neighborhood power to combat deterioration and market speculation by fostering equitable development for generations to come. | Jasmyn Byrd |
| Rondo Community Land Trust | St. Paul, Minnesota | "Rondo CLT is named after Rondo Avenue, a main commercial corridor that was renamed Concordia Avenue during the construction of Interstate 94. The construction dislocated many long-term residents and fractured the predominantly African American Rondo neighborhood. In 1989 a resident task force initiated by the Summit-University Planning Council explored successful methods of preserving housing affordability. The task force recommended the land trust model as a way to keep housing affordable for future generations." | Leslie Harrison |
| Equitable Communities CLT | Charlotte, NC | "Equitable Communities CLT educates and empowers community residents and leaders to effectively advocate for realistic and measurable solutions... The arguments expressed by author Richard Rothstein in “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America” are integral to the foundation of our organization’s perspective - that we have a societal obligation to build equitable communities in order to ensure fair pathways for economic mobility." | Caroline Marshall |
| City of Laks Community Land Trust | Minneapolis, MN | Founded in 2001 by nieghborhood residents : Powderhorn residents Group, Seward Redesign, Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association, and Lyndale Neighborhood Development Corporation; became 501(c)(3) in 2003 | Angie Kealey Rainey |
| Douglass Community Land Trust | Washington, DC | Founded in 2019 to protect primarily black residents in Southeast DC from displacement | Steph Dahl |
| Fruit Belt CLT | Buffalo NY | The Fruit Belt is a prototypical Northeastern Black neighborhood: Settled in the wake of Jim Crow migration and segregation after WW1, fallen into decline from redlining and disinvestment after WW2, an then reset by urban renewal demolition and expressway construction in the 1960's | Russ Stephenson |
| Africatown Land Trust | Seattle Washington | Formed to resist gentrification of the central district in Seattle. Provides affordable housing and commercial spaces for black businesses. | Benjamin Schwarz |