Resources for our homeowners and potential home-buyers:
- Materials for CLT homebuyers — created by the Florida Housing Coalition
- Ready to Be a Homeowner — 15 min podcast by Summit Credit Union about the steps it takes to buy a home
- Downpayment Assistance Programs — by Movin’ Out
- Home Buyers Round Table — A Dane County-based resource with information about home buyer education, downpayment assistance, financing options and more
- First-time home-buyer classes — offered by Movin’ Out and UW Extension
- Online resources for first-time homebuyers — free videos and info on financing, repairs, etc.
- Information on insurance for first-time homebuyers
- Credit Coaching classes — offered by Movin’ Out and UW Extension
- Personal Finance Webinars — offered by Summit Credit Union
- Home Equity Loans — 10 min podcast by Summit Credit Union
- Home Rehab loans — offered by the City of Madison
- Funding and affordable maintenance services — by Project Home
- Free home maintenance webinars and classes — by Project Home
- Ageing and Disability Resource Center
- Access to Independence — services for differently abled
- Community Action Coalition — housing support
- Dane County Job Center
- City of Madison community resource list
- Common Wealth Development — more affordable housing options
- Tenant Resource Center: housing services and legal assistance, especially for renters in Madison
Resources about CLTs
- A Guide to Transformative Land Strategies – 2020 synthesis of movement CLTs co-written by our staff with MIT CoLab
- Popular Education materials on CLTs — by NYCCLI
- Neighborhood Organizing guide — by the London CLT
- Economic Democracy Training Series — by MIT CoLab, including pieces on CLTs
- Grounded Solutions Network — the national network organization for permanently affordable housing advocacy and resources
- Burlington Associates — technical assistance and policy resources for CLTs.
- Center for Community Land Trust Innovation — emerging resource hub for CLTs working beyond housing
- New York City Community Land Initiative — coalition of organizers in New York advocating for and supporting CLTs
- Right to the City Alliance — national network of housing activist organizations that supports CLTs
- Community Control of Land and Housing — report by The Democracy Collaborative
- Development Without Displacement — report by Causa Justa
- Rooted in Home — report by Urban Habitat
- Balancing Acts: CLTs and Mutual Housing Associations
- US CLT Technical Manual
Examples of inspiring CLTs
- Champlain Housing Trust — the biggest CLT in the U.S. (formerly Burlington CLT)
- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative — the gold standard CLT in Boston, MA
- Oakland Community Land Trust — a CLT partnering with grassroots organizers and working through the city on important advocacy
- Parkdale Neighborhood Land Trust — A CLT in Toronto that works as part of a comprehensive strategy toward economic democracy, partnered with grassroots organizers
- Sawmill Community Land Trust — Albuquerque, NM
- T.R.U.S.T. South LA — an established CLT with a legacy of community organizing
Other organizations partnering with and supporting CLTs
- Madison Area Cooperative Housing Alliance (MACHA): a network supporting group equity housing cooperatives in Madison
- Affordable Housing Action Alliance: a local network of affordable housing advocates working with policy-makers
- E.F. Schumacher Society — the repository of all documents relating to the CLT movement
- Equity Trust — a loan fund and creative approaches to preserving agricultural land which now owns the intellectual property of the Institute for Community Economics (ICE)
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy — carrying on the work of Henry George, our partner in the Troy Gardens Case Study, and also a key partner for the Grounded Solutions Network
- National Housing Institute — they publish Shelterforce — and do great research
- National Housing Trust — they now operate the old ICE CLT loan fund
- NeighborWorks — a key partner of the Grounded Solutions Network, both in offering trainings around the country, as well as a key funder
- Local Initiatives Support Coalition — a long-time supportive organization and CDFI
- Community-Wealth — promoting CLTs as part of a broader community wealth strategy