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The feature below is part of our end-of-year campaign celebrating how the CLT Center is working to serve the global CLT movement. This week, we’re highlighting: |
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The Climate Justice Initiative: A Growing Movement for a Just Transition |
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The climate emergency is no longer a distant threat—it’s here, reshaping where and how people live. For many low-income communities, climate impacts mean losing homes, livelihoods, and even the right to remain in place. After every flood or wildfire, land grabs and displacement follow, widening the gap between those who can recover and those who cannot.
Across the world, CLTs are already experimenting with climate solutions: designing net-zero homes, restoring ecosystems, strengthening food sovereignty, and ensuring that recovery after disaster is collective and just. |
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Building on this momentum, we created the Climate Justice Initiative, a collective effort to position CLTs as key players in achieving a fair, sustainable, equitable, and decarbonized future. Rather than relying on top-down climate responses, the initiative builds on decades of community-led land stewardship and affordable housing work. |
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As part of this initiative, we’ve launched a monthly online peer-learning series where practitioners exchange knowledge and experience across different contexts. Our most recent workshop in October, Energy Retrofit and Efficiency, brought together participants from Austria, Belgium, Canada, Haiti, Kenya, Sweden, the UK, and the US to explore how CLTs can decarbonize affordably while improving comfort, health, and long-term affordability. |
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Integrating the CLT Model into Energy Retrofit: Lessons from Brussels |
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| Geert De Pauw, CLT Brussels (Belgium) |
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| Transforming Rural Housing Through CLTs: The South of Scotland Experience |
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| Chris Dalglish and Mike Staples, SOSCH (Scotland) |
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Are you a CLT practitioner interested in future Climate Justice Workshops? (Workshops will resume in January 2026) |
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Through the Climate Justice Initiative, the CLT Center aims for a world where organized communities reduce their environmental impact, strengthen collective preparedness, and recover together after disasters. Every peer exchange, every toolkit, every shared lesson strengthens the movement for climate and housing justice. |
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Nov 25 — CLTs as a Step Towards Decolonizing Our Relationships to Land
Representatives of Indigenous-led CLTs in the US and Canada share how CLTs can serve to protect sacred land from speculative markets, extractivism, and disaster capitalism. UPDATE: This webinar will now feature simultaneous interpretation into Spanish. |
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Dec 10 — Scaling Housing Supply Through Habitat for Humanity–CLT Partnerships
Join Habitat for Humanity International and the CLT Center for the second session in our webinar series exploring how CLT–Habitat partnerships can scale community-led housing supply and ensure lasting affordability.
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CLT Job and Opportunities |
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Funding Opportunity: Scaling Pathways to Homeownership (Lever for Change) |
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Lever for Change, an affiliate of the MacArthur Foundation, has launched an open call for proposals aimed at expanding access to affordable and equitable homeownership in the US and beyond. Selected initiatives will receive significant multi-year funding and technical support to scale innovative models of ownership and wealth-building for underserved communities. Deadline: December 17. Learn more here >> |
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Have an update, event, or job posting that you’d like to share in our next newsletter? Please submit your content by the first of the month.
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