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Baltimore’s Community Land Trusts Offer a Pathway to Housing Justice
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YES! Magazine - Social Justice
After years of grassroots activism, the city has found success in addressing historical housing discrimination through community land trusts.
When Sanchez-Gonzalez was 14, he first learned about community land trusts through Free Your Voice, a youth-led activist group at his school, Benjamin Franklin High.
After years of struggle, community land trust housing is slated for construction in Sanchez-Gonzalez’s neighborhood, and comes with other benefits besides being available at below-market rates.
In March 2021, the fund finally made its first distribution of $2.25 million to community land trusts to create 26 units of affordable housing.
Campbell became interested in community land trusts when she was a 15-year-old fighting against the construction of an incinerator 2 miles away from her home.
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