|  | | In This Edition…Honoring a Leader CLTs in the News Upcoming Events CLT Job Postings
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| | | Marie Cirillo, a tireless advocate for empowering rural communities and using community land trusts for rural development, passed away on July 4, 2024, at the age of 94. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she became a Catholic nun at the age of 19, joining the Glenmary Sisters. She and 43 other Sisters left the order in 1967. Many of them, including Marie, relocated to Appalachia and started a new nonprofit, the Federation of Communities and Service (FOCUS). Marie moved near Clairfield, an unincorporated town in the coalfields of east Tennessee, where she remained for the rest of her life, doing community |
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| organizing and helping to establish many community development organizations. These included the Woodland CLT, Model Valley Development Corporation, the Clearfork Water Utility, and the Clearfork Community Institute. Marie's legacy of compassion and community service lives on through the institutions she built and the lives she touched. Her life's work remains a testament to the power of grassroots activism and the enduring spirit of community. Read more here >> |
| | | | La notion de « communauté » des Community Land Trust est-elle transposable aux organismes de foncier solidaire ? (FRENCH: “Is the concept of ‘community’ within Community Land Trusts transferable to Organismes de Foncier Solidaire?”) – Featured in the Politique du Logement (“Housing Policy” in English) in January 2023, this is an excellent article that examines the applicability of the CLT to France's Organismes de Foncier Solidaire (OFS). It highlights how CLTs' community-focused approach could enhance OFS initiatives, ensuring long-term affordability and community engagement in housing. |
| Abbiamo firmato! Ora possiamo festeggiare (ITALIAN: “We signed! Now we can celebrate”) – The Fondazione Community Land Trust Terreno Comune has successfully purchased a property for the first CLT in both Torino and Italy. This milestone was achieved with support from over 80 contributors and showcases the growing international impact of the CLT movement. |
| Additional articles on CLTs in the news include: A Passion to Do the Right Thing: Michael Monte and the Champlain Housing Trust, Joyce Marcel, Vermont Business Magazine, 28 July 2024 Commons people: IF_DO creates community hub for Hastings, Ellen Peirson, Architects Journal, 22 July 2024 Affordable housing in God’s backyard: Some religious congregations find a new use for their space, Nadia A. Mian, The Conversation, 19 July 2024 Conversation: Community Land Trusts and Improved Health, Roger Valdez, Forbes, 5 July 2024 How community land trusts can fight green gentrification, Lucy Koester, Connecticut Mirror, 5 July 2024 Community land trusts: An ‘old-school’ innovation with ‘new school’ structural applications, Andre M. Perry and Manann Donoghoe, Brookings Institute, 26 June 2024 A Model of Community Planning, Power and Tenure Since the 1960s, Felipe Litsek, Lara Masetto, w/ translation by Maria Fernanda Godinho, RioOnWatch, 24 June 2024 PHOTO ESSAY | Juneteenth 2024 With Africatown Community Land Trust and King County Equity Now, South Seattle Emerald, 24 June 2024 Community ownership could help Lahaina families protect their land, report says, Catherine Cluett Pactol, Hawai'i Public Radio, 21 June 2024
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| | | Building Affordable Futures with Black-Led Community Land Trusts, Canadian Network of CLTs, 15 August (Online). Register here >> California CLT Conference, 12-13 September (Los Angeles, CA). More info >> Midwest CLT Conference, 7-10 October (Minneapolis, MI). More info >> Vancouver CLT Summit, 18-20 October (Vancouver, BC). More info >>
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| | | | | Have an update that you’d like to share in our next newsletter?
Submit a short text, a link, and a photo to the CLT Center's Communications Manager, Ben Harris — ben@communitylandtrust.net |
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