Community Land Trusts
Urban Omnibus
By Urban Omnibus
Community land trusts are in vogue, a bright spot in a mostly grim housing landscape. The nonprofit, community-run organizations steward land to provide housing or community resources that are affordable in perpetuity, as Oksana Mironova detailed for UO in 2014. For the final Housing Brass Tacks event of 2017, Mychal Johnson and Monxo López of South Bronx Unite and the Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewards outlined the benefits of land trusts and why and how they’re implementing the model in their Bronx neighborhood.
