Community ownership
Spotlight on Resident Voice and Community Ownership
Community development, at its core, helps residents create their own shared future. This concept of self-determination – also known as community ownership – is fundamental to LISC’s work, as we recognize that both our own investments and others from the public and private sector need to be directed by local voices. This Spotlight for the Institute for Community Power highlights contemporary efforts to advance community ownership by bringing residents together to elevate their voices and decision-making abilities. In it, we look at three programs designed and implemented by LISC and local partners: Training for Trainers (T4T) in Houston; the Newark Resident Leadership Academy (NRLA); and Community Connectors in Philadelphia.
Stable Homes and Resident Empowerment
This report from the LISC Community Research and Impact team describes COPA and TOPA policies at work and their outcomes in DC and San Francisco, implementation lessons, and evidence about the impact of these policies based on preliminary LISC analyses of housing market dynamics in New York City.
Tenant & Community Opportunity to Purchase Policies
Implementation lessons and impact prospects for Tenant and Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA or COPA) policies.
Community ownership through real estate: Propelling a movement beyond a moment
The LISC Institute for Community Power, LISC Twin Cities, and Center for Community Land Trust Innovation hosted a conversation with community-owned real estate initiatives in the Twin Cities working to preserve community-serving businesses, build community wealth, and promote community-led economic development with and for BIPOC and immigrant communities.
Commercial Community Ownership as a Strategy for Just Development
This LISC report highlights commercial community ownership strategies and shares lessons and recommendations from groups working to preserve affordable space for small businesses and community organizations, build community wealth, and promote community-led economic development.
Pathways to Tenant and Community Control: Financing Strategies for Community Land Trusts
The LISC Institute for Community Power and LISC Bay Area hosted a conversation with Filipino CDC, Oakland Community Land Trust, and San Francisco Community Land Trust for a conversation on how to build power and secure resources to expand tenant and community control of housing.
“Real Power is in the Land”: Community Land Trusts—Past, Present and Future
From their Southern roots in the Civil Rights movement to dynamic new efforts in diverse parts of the country, Community Land Trusts (CLTs) have proved to be a powerful means to combatting Black land loss and displacement, building community wealth, and strengthening community health and wellbeing. A recent LISC-led panel brought together leading CLT proponents to discuss the history of community land ownership in America, the rising movement today, and how CLTs are an imperative tool in the fight for economic, racial and environmental justice and equitable recovery from the pandemic.
New Communities and Community Land Trusts in Movements for Black Lives, Land and Liberation
The LISC Institute hosted a conversation with Shirley Sherrod and community land trust (CLT) leaders from Baltimore, Houston, New York City, and Seattle, reflecting on how CLTs can help combat Black land loss and displacement, build community wealth, and strengthen community health and care, and the support needed to scale and sustain this work over multiple generations.
Advancing Equity in Housing: Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act
The LISC Institute held a conversation with TOPA advocates in Washington, DC and New York City, and shared why these policies are critical for an equitable recovery from COVID-19.
Webinar: Partners against Displacement: Community Land Trusts and Community Development
Anyone interested in community land trusts and how partnerships with the community development sector are being used to bring about new pipeline and new resources for permanently affordable housing should watch this recording.