What is a community land trust?

The Community Land Trust (CLT) model gives a community a host of tools to engage with issues relating to land use, housing, and common space. The core ideas are simple: take land and buildings out of a speculative market and separate the ownership of the buildings from the land they sit on. The community land trust then works to provide inheritable and renewable leases for lands and buildings so the people who use those spaces gain stable access and long-term affordability.