#community-land-trusts

#community-land-trusts

In their contributions, the authors touch on a wide range of topics, including the need to connect land justice with broader struggles for liberation, the role foundations and faith-based institutions (like the Roman Catholic Church) can play to leverage their own assets to contain speculation, how community-based institutions like cooperatives and community land trusts can help align land uses with human values, the value of member education and leadership development, and the need to push back against mainstream models of individual land ownership.

Right now, the biggest challenge our community faces is the housing crisis. Too many families in Roxbury, Dorchester, the South End, and Fenway are being pushed out of the neighborhoods they have built and loved for generations. Every week, I talk with elders who worry about losing their homes and young families who feel like they will never be able to stay where they grew up. This is tearing at the heart of our community.