May 2010
Land Banks and Community Land Trusts Partner to Unlock Affordable Housing Opportunities
October 7, 2020
Earlier this year, Kizzy Jefferson closed on her first house. The newly finished three-bedroom, two-bathroom residence in Acre Homes, a historically Black neighborhood in Northwest Houston, sold for $75,000, less than a third of the city’s median single-family home price of $250,000. Long considered an unusually affordable city, Houston has experienced the same soaring […]
Could Community Land Trusts in Informal Settlements Help Solve the World’s Affordable Housing Crisis?
July 24, 2018
Introduction For more than two decades, the Lincoln Institute’s Program on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been working at the intersection of urban land markets, land-based financing, and affordable housing to address the rise in informal settlements and urban poverty in the region. The Institute has also focused on community land trusts (CLTs)—in […]
How Community Land Trusts Are Supporting Urban Agriculture
April 1, 2014
Despite the growing popularity of urban agriculture, many city farms continue to face the challenge of insecure land tenure and overly restrictive public policies. Some researchers and policy makers have identified the need for an updated framework for the movement that would support urban farmers as they navigate land use, zoning, and property tax regulations. […]
April 1, 2014
A pesar de la creciente popularidad de la agricultura urbana, muchas granjas urbanas siguen enfrentando el desafío de la inseguridad respecto de la posesión del suelo y de políticas públicas demasiado restrictivas. Algunos investigadores y responsables de diseñar políticas han identificado la necesidad de un marco actualizado para este movimiento que apoye a los granjeros […]
Fostering Networks on Conservation and Affordable Housing
October 1, 2012
Policies affecting the use, regulation, and taxation of land in the United States are promulgated and applied primarily by states and local governments, and real estate markets are largely local and not national in scope. However, national policies including those on taxation, property rights, and mortgage financing have a significant impact on local land and […]
Delinquency and Foreclosure Rates in Community Land Trusts
October 1, 2010
The foreclosure crisis and its impact on the U.S. economy seem far from abating as mortgage delinquencies and foreclosure filings continue to climb. According to RealtyTrac, a total of 2.8 million properties had foreclosure filings during 2009, or one out of every 45 residences. That foreclosure rate was 21 percent higher than in 2008 and […]
Los bancos de tierras y los fideicomisos de suelo comunitarios se asocian para generar oportunidades de vivienda asequible
October 7, 2020
A principio de año, Kizzy Jefferson cerró la compra de su primera casa. La residencia recién terminada, de tres habitaciones y dos baños, ubicada en Acre Homes, un vecindario de tradición negra del noroeste de Houston, se vendió por US$ 75.000, menos de un tercio de la mediana de precio para viviendas unifamiliares de […]
Si se establecen fideicomisos de suelo comunitarios en asentamientos informales, ¿se podría ayudar a resolver la crisis mundial de viviendas asequibles?
July 31, 2018
Introducción El Programa para América Latina y el Caribe (LAC) del Instituto Lincoln trabaja desde hace más de dos décadas en la intersección de los mercados de territorio urbano, financiación basada en territorio y viviendas asequibles, para poder abordar el aumento de los asentamientos informales y la pobreza urbana en la región. Además, el Instituto […]
Impulso de redes sobre conservación y viviendas asequibles
October 1, 2012
Las políticas que afectan la utilización, la regulación y la tributación del suelo en los Estados Unidos son promulgadas y aplicadas en primer lugar por los estados y los gobiernos municipales, y los mercados inmobiliarios, en su mayoría, son de alcance local más que nacional. Sin embargo, las políticas nacionales que versan sobre impuestos, derechos […]
