CLT Guidebook

These resources bring together what we’ve learned from the SHICC Project and from our ongoing work with community land trusts in London, Ghent, Brussels and Lille.

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For UK-specific guidance, please visit the Community Land Trust Network (CLTN).

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Building a Team

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How to organise citizens to support the development of community land trusts.

 

Resources

 

Suggested Readings

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Getting people organised around a common goal can often feel like the biggest hurdle when starting a community land trust. The readings below break this down, showing how we can work with people’s natural self-interest to achieve shared goals. Have a read and get inspired!

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Building A Team & Organising to Get Land

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Bolton, Matthew - How to Resist 

Emmens, Ben - Conscious, Collaboration - Re-Thinking The Way We Work Together, For Good

Benkler, Yochai -The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest

Alinsky, Saul - Rules for Radicals 

Gecan, Michael - Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action   

Mcalevey, Jane - No Shortcuts: Organising for power in the Gilded Age

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Design & Planning

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Jacobs, Jane - The death and life of great American cities 

Till, Jeremy - Architecture depends 

Ward, Colin - When we build again

Horton, Myles - The long haul   

Freire, Paolo - Pedagogy of the oppressed  

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Finance & Mortgages

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Ryan Collins, Josh; Lloyd, Toby; McFarlane, Lauri - Rethinking economics of land and housing

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