Deepening stewardship: resident engagement in community land trusts

Community land trusts (CLTs) are gaining ground as a model that effectively creates community control of property for permanently affordable housing and community development. Resident engagement, however, is crucial for the success of CLTs. In this study, we examine six well-established CLTs to gai...

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Published in:Urban geography 2016-05, Vol.37 (4), p.611-628
Main Authors: Lowe, Jeffrey S., Thaden, Emily
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affordable housing
Community development
community empowerment
community land trusts
Community property
Community trusts
Environmental stewardship
Land trusts
Land use
Management
Markets
Neoliberalism
Nonprofit organizations
Ownership
Prescription drugs
Preservation
Property
Transformation
Trusts
Urban studies
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Summary:Community land trusts (CLTs) are gaining ground as a model that effectively creates community control of property for permanently affordable housing and community development. Resident engagement, however, is crucial for the success of CLTs. In this study, we examine six well-established CLTs to gain an understanding of how their resident engagement practices reproduce stewardship that challenges the conventional private market approach to property ownership. While broadly sweeping resident awareness and explicit buy-in to the cause of disrupting the neoliberal paradigm of property ownership may be optimal, it is not necessary in order for the CLT to provide a transformational alternative to private market prescriptions for land use, tenure arrangements, and individualized property ownership. Transformation can be achieved through pursuit of three inextricably-linked objectives (resident betterment, community control of land, and asset preservation) for intensifying stewardship.
ISSN:0272-3638
1938-2847
DOI:10.1080/02723638.2015.1101250