In 2013, the first community land trust in Europe was established by grassroots housing activists in Brussels with financial support from their regional government. Geert De Pauw, an organizer and coordinator of the Brussels CLT, and Nele Aernouts, a researcher and teacher at the Vrije Universiteit, describe the process of starting this urban CLT and completing its early projects. Discussed, too, are the CLT’s prospects and plans for future growth.

Chapter 20 - London Community Land Trust: A Story of People, Power, and Perseverance - Dave Smith

ON COMMON GROUND is a collection of original essays, written by 42 scholars and practitioners from a dozen countries, tracing the growth and diversification of the international community land trust movement. 

A community land trust (CLT) is a transformative strategy of community-led development on community-owned land that has taken root in the Global North and is now spreading to the Global South. CLTs produce and preserve affordably priced homes, community gardens, retail spaces, and a variety of neighborhood facilities – all developed under the guidance of the people who live nearby; all managed to remain permanently affordable for people of modest means.

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On Common Ground

Chapter 22 - The Burden of Patience in a Long March Toward Racial Justice - Tony Pickett

Chapter 21 - From Pressure Group to Government Partner  The Story of the Brussels Community Land Trust - Geert De Pauw and Nele Aernouts (Read by Nele Aernouts and Line Algoed)