Black Affordable Futures with Black-Led Community Land Trusts

Have you heard? Across Canada, Black communities are creating opportunities for affordable housing and vibrant commercial spaces through community land trusts.

From Hogan’s Alley in Vancouver to Upper Hammonds Plains in Halifax, community land trusts are enabling transformative Black community development.

In May of 2024, the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts led a delegation of these organizations on a tour of across the United States to learn how Black communities are fostering transformative change through collective land ownership. On Thursday, August 17 2024, they shared key lessons from the tour and celebrate resilient Black community development. You can click here to learn more about the event.

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Liberated Land Trust Tour – Oakland, California

About the tour + participants From May 4th – 11th 2024 the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts led a 17-person delegation of five emerging Black-led, Black-serving, and Black-focused (B3)

Weymouth Falls Community Land Trust is hoping to acquire historic church

The cover photo was taken in the early 1900s at the Mount Beulah Baptist Church in Weymouth Falls which is now for sale. Our community wants to buy it back.

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Imagining Stewardship: Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts Annual Summit

The CLT Summit is Canada’s largest gathering of community land trusts (CLTs) and their supporters. Join us in Vancouver from October 18 to 20 for 3 full days of panel

Weymouth Falls Community Mapping Session

On Saturday, August 17th 2024 we held a community engagement session to finalize the Weymouth Falls Community Map in partnership with the Clean Foundation. In the afternoon, we were joined

Minister Sean Fraser at the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia

What’s in store for the Weymouth Falls Community Land Trust

On Thursday, Black community leaders from across Canada and the United States gathered at the Black Cultural Centre in Cherry Brook, N.S. The event gave those leaders the opportunity to

Black Affordable Futures with Black-Led Community Land Trusts

Have you heard? Across Canada, Black communities are creating opportunities for affordable housing and vibrant commercial spaces through community land trusts. From Hogan’s Alley in Vancouver to Upper Hammonds Plains in Halifax,