| Lecture: |
The National Status of Community Land Trusts with Local Examples: A Panel Discussion |
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Date: |
Tuesday, November 27th at 12 p.m. |
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Location: |
Lincoln House - 113 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Overview: Community land trusts have become an increasingly popular mechanism to increase the stock of permanently affordable housing for moderate- and low-income households. Typically, the CLT model removes the cost of land from the housing price by having the land owned by a nonprofit organization, and houses or condominiums owned by individual homeowners; use of the underlying land is secured by a 99-year ground lease; the occupancy, condition, and affordability of the housing are controlled through restrictions on use and resale contained therein. In this talk, the results of a recent Lincoln Institute survey of 119 CLTs including background, current activities and practices, will be presented. A comparison of CLT to other models of shared equity homeownership will be offered, and the experiences of Dudley Neighbors, Inc, a local CLT, which is a program of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, will be discussed.
Speakers: John Emmeus
Davis
is visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute for 2007-2008. He is a partner in Burlington Associates in Community Development LLC, a national consulting cooperative specializing in policies and programs promoting permanently affordable housing.
Davis
previously served as housing director for
Burlington
,
Vermont
. He has taught housing policy and neighborhood planning at
New Hampshire
College
, the
University
of
Vermont
, and MIT. His publications include The Community Land Trust Handbook
(1984), Contested Ground: Collective Action and the Urban Neighborhood
(1991), The Affordable City: Toward a Third Sector Housing Policy
(1994), Permanently Affordable Homeownership: Does the
Community
Land
Trust Deliver on Its Promises?
(2003), and a recently completed study for the National Housing Institute, titled Shared Equity Homeownership: The Changing Landscape of Resale-Restricted, Owner-Occupied Housing
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John Barros
, a lifelong resident of
Boston
's
Dudley
neighborhood, became executive director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in 2000. At 17, he was the first young person to serve on the board of the organization, and in 1997-98 he served as board vice president. He was co-founder of the group's Nubian Roots Youth Committee, and designer of the prominent 1993 "Unity through Diversity" mural. He is a member of the Aspen Institute's Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives and co-chair of the Center for Community Builders, a national practitioner network. He served as vice president of Dudley Neighbors, Inc., the community land trust created to assure long-term affordable housing in Roxbury.
Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz
is a research associate at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. She currently provides research and managerial expertise to the design and implementation of CLT research, Neighborhood Planning and Development and Fiscal Dimensions of Planning projects. She received a Master of City Planning degree from the
University
of
Pennsylvania
. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs,
University
of
Pittsburgh
.
Registration:
The event is free, but pre-registration is required. Contact he...@lincolninst.edu
or call (617) 661-3016 ext. 127 to register and for directions. Register online.
Parking is not available at Lincoln House.
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