Green Community Land Trust
From Cultivating Sustainable Communities
Cultivating Sustainable Communities incubated Green Community Land Trusts, which create and conserve affordable housing as well as help people with low and moderate incomes gain a stake in their communities as homeowners. We create community land trusts that not only keep housing affordable, but also integrate urban living with nature. Green Community Land Trusts produce pedestrian-centered communities with clean air and water, safe parks, healthy food from community gardens and farmers markets, good jobs close to people's homes, and social networks that help residents work together toward common goals.
We most recently helped create the Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust, near downtown Los Angeles. Its core is the
Los Angeles Eco Village, comprising fifty apartments in two buildings. The trust will own the land, and the Eco-Village residents, currently renters, will buy and manage the buildings as a limited equity housing co-op. From this residential core, the trust will expand to include other residences and businesses that take advantage of a dense transportation corridor to create jobs and shops that people can easily reach by bus, subway, bike and foot.
