With incomes stagnant, homeownership increasingly out of reach, and rents skyrocketing throughout the nation, communities in nearly every state are turning to the community land trust. Community members demanded that the city reject the proposal and instead preserve the land in a community land trust. The 21st century necessitates new relationships to work and land, he argues—one provided by the concept of the community land trust. The struggle to scale upWhile in other parts of the country, governments have embraced the idea of community land trusts, Detroit’s leaders have yet to be sold on the idea. The Detroit Community Land Trust Coalition is growing, with representatives from dozens of organizations gathering to explore community land trusts and create a central CLT organization that can provide services to smaller, budding CLTs throughout the city.