IN THIS EDITION:
- World CLT Day: Thank You!
- Toronto CLT Movement: Webinar on November 4th (tonight!)
- Book Launch for Community Matters on November 14th
Thank You!
People and organizations from around the world sent messages and posted photos and videos to share in the celebration. You can find all the Facebook and Twitter posts -- plus a thank you message from CLT Center board member Gus Newport --on the World CLT Day website.
We would like to thank the the financial sponsors of World CLT Day: California CLT Network, Champlain Housing Trust, Gary Philanthropy, Lopez CLT, Midfirst Bank, and Urban Land Conservancy.
And we are grateful to our lead partner, CLT Brussels, as well as the other organizations that have participated in helping plan World CLT Day: CLT Gent, Catalytic Communities/Favela CLT Network, South of Scotland Community Housing, and Stadtbodenstiftung.
Toronto CLT Movement: Housing Justice, Racial Equity and Economic Democracy
Toronto has seen remarkable growth of community land trusts (CLTs) in the last 10 years. These CLTs have been established as community-led alternatives to address issues of eviction, displacement, structural racism and speculation. Now, they have come to embody the second generation of the Canadian CLT movement.
Join us on November 4th at 6:30 PM EDT to learn how Toronto’s CLTs are pursuing transformative changes built on the principles of housing justice, racial equity and economic democracy.
Featuring the following panelists:
Dane Williams – Black Urbanism Toronto (BUTO)
Ivy Farquhar‑McDonnell – Circle CLT
Dominique Russell – Kensington Market CLT
Joshua Barndt & PNLT board director – Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust
Amy Lam & Alexandra Hong – Toronto Chinatown Land Trust
Panel Facilitation: Kuni Kamizaki (U of T)
Closing Remarks: Chiyi Tam (Kensignton Market CLT & Toronto Chinatown Land Trust)
Please join us in celebrating the publication of the latest book from Terra Nostra Press, Community Matters. This webinar will bring together CLT practitioners from Boston, Brussels, London, Houston, and San Juan whose perspectives on community organizing and resident engagement are featured in the book. The book’s contributors will be reflecting on questions and issues that come from editor John Emmeus Davis — as well as from webinar attendees.
This webinar will be offered with simultaneous translation in English and Spanish.
Book Description
Community Matters: Conversations with Reflective Practitioners about the Value and Variety of Resident Engagement in Community Land Trusts is the first in our interview series of publications, featuring leading CLT practitioners from around the globe.
Community land trusts (CLTs) are distinguished from many other nonprofit housing developers by the degree to which residents of the places served by a CLT are woven into the culture, structure, and operation of the organization itself. This participatory element — the “C” in CLT — is just as important to what a CLT is and does as its distinctive approach to the ownership of land and the stewardship of housing.
The practitioners featured in the present volume epitomize the persistence of this commitment to community — and its complexity. Working with CLTs in Boston, Brussels, Houston, London, and San Juan, they have championed a variety of strategies for giving residents an active voice in planning and development. They have also changed strategies when needed. The stories of these experienced practitioners explore the whys and ways of keeping “community” alive in organizations like theirs. They offer a virtual master class in resilient resident engagement.
