Brooklyn
fromBrownstoner
2 days agoLand Trust Plans 'Liberation Center' in East New York
A 120-plus-year East New York warehouse will become a community center and small business hub under an East Brooklyn Liberation Center land trust plan.
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fromBrownstoner
3 weeks agoBrooklyn Properties Eyed by Land Trust Go on Market
The grand mansion at 375 Stuyvesant Avenue in Bed Stuy and Paul Robeson Theater at 40 Greene Avenue in Fort Greene have been at the center of years-long family dispute following the death of Dr. Josephine English in 2011.
Real estate
fromBrownstoner
5 months agoBrooklyn News: Bed Stuy Locals Try to Buy Historic Mansion
Bed Stuy Locals Race to Buy Historic Stuyvesant Avenue Mansion as Sale Looms A group of Bed Stuy residents is scrambling to take community ownership of a historic early 20th-century mansion on Stuyvesant Avenue following a court-ordered sale, organizing to form a community land trust and raise millions of dollars to buy and repair the property before it is sold to a private buyer.
Brooklyn
SF politics
fromKqed
5 months agoSan Francisco Community Land Trust Preserves Affordable Units to Meet State Housing Goals | KQED
Preserving existing affordable housing now counts toward San Francisco's housing goals, enabling nonprofits to acquire and protect rent-controlled units against market-rate redevelopment.
East Bay real estate
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
6 months agoHow Immigrants Are Creating a New World in the Shell of the Old | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Immigrants in East Boston and Chelsea organize cooperative, solidarity-based community initiatives to resist gentrification, foreclosure, and build dignified, mutual-support economies.
Los Angeles
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10 months agoIn Los Angeles, a Black-Led Community Land Trust Builds for the Future - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Community activists in Crenshaw are building a community land trust after being denied a property purchase, aiming to become the largest CLT in America.
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