Preserving Affordable Homeownership

This long-awaited follow-up to The City-CLT Partnership provides new and updated information about current policy collaborations among community land trusts, cities, counties, and states working to address the housing affordability crisis. Combining their own expertise with input provided by more than 115 CLT practitioners and other experts across the country, the authors identify significant trends in the community land trust landscape, share examples of innovative and effective partnerships, and offer evidence-based recommendations for policy makers and practitioners who want to make homeownership more affordable and accessible.

John Emmeus Davis is a city planner who has spent much of his 40-year career providing technical assistance to CLTs and documenting their history and performance. He coauthored the Lincoln Institute’s 2008 publication, The City-CLT Partnership. He previously served as the city’s housing director in Burlington, Vermont, and dean of the National CLT Academy. He is a partner at Burlington Associates in Community Development LLC, a national consulting cooperative. He is a founding board member of the International Center for CLTs and editor-in-chief of the Center’s imprint, Terra Nostra Press.

Kristin King-Ries is an attorney whose practice is focused on creating and stewarding permanently affordable homes and farms for people priced out of the traditional real estate market. She represents CLTs and other nonprofits and serves as a consultant to the Agrarian Trust and the Center for Agricultural and Food Systems at the Vermont Law and Graduate School. She is presently playing the lead role in organizing a CLT legal collaborative on behalf of the International Center for CLTs. She previously served as general counsel for Trust Montana from 2017 to 2021.