The CLT Files

Community Land Trusts are a simple enough concept: take land off the speculative market and hold it in community hands. But those three words, community, land and trust, are complicated. Join us for The CLT Files, the podcast where we dive deep and messy into the issues with people involved in the CLT movement. How do you define community? How do you acquire (stolen) land? Who can you trust? If you’re curious about the theory and practice of community land trusts, you’ll want to open the CLT files.

Produced by the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts

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Series credits:

Host: Dominique Russell

Sound recording and production: Kevin Barrett

With the support of the Catherine Donnelly Foundation

Music: “Love and Struggle”

Composed by Kevin Barrett

Performed by the Kevin Barrett Group on the album Share the Wealth.

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The CLT Files

Organizing for Acquisition

February 06, 2025 • Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts

This time we talk to organizations that have achieved major policy changes that have slowed development, laying the ground work for acquisition and community stewardship of their neighbourhoods.

With Adriana Abizadeh, Executive Director of the Kensington Corridor Trust; Wendy Pedersen, Executive Director of the SRO-collective and Jessica Chen, Executive Director and Board Liaison of the Jia Foundation.

Notes:

Wendy discusses Jane McAlevey, an American union organizer, political commentator and author, who died in July 2024. You can find more about her work and her books here.

Find out more about the Kensington Corridor Trust here. To learn about the campaign for vacancy control, check out the DTES SRO-C’s website here. Check out the Jia Foundation’s work here.

Hosted by the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts

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