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As Homeownership Rates Decline in New York City, Could Community Land Trusts be an Answer? – City & State NY, August 25, 2022
Tenant Control – WBAI’s Housing Notebook, August 22, 2022
Legislation Would Give Nonprofits First Crack at Developing NYC-Owned Land – City Limits, August 11, 2022
A Community Land Trust takes Root in the Bronx – Riverdale Press, July 15, 2022
Community Land Trust Wants to Turn NYPD Parking Lots Into Affordable Housing. Can They? – Brownstoner, June 2, 2022
Community Land Trusts Protect Housing Affordability – and Democracy – Urban Matters, June 1, 2022
Majority of City Council Declares Opposition to Reauthorizing NYC Tax Lien Sale – Gotham Gazette, May 31, 2022
NYC Is Fighting for More Community Land Trust Funding – Next City, April 21, 2022
Community Land Trusts Would Get First Dibs at Buying Properties Under Revised Council Bill – City Limits, April 19, 2022
平价屋不足 纽约华埠社区吁利用空置酒店 – Epoch News, April 15, 2022
Community Groups, Elected Officials Rally at City Hall for Community Land Trust Funding, Legislation to Stabilize Housing and Combat Speculation – Press Release, April 14, 2022
Brooklyn Tenants of Neglected Building Push for Community Control – Next City, April 7, 2022
Advocates Call for ‘Social Housing’ Funding in Budget – NY1 News, April 4, 2022
Flatbush Tenants Decry Building’s Neglect, Call to Pass ‘Opportunity to Purchase’ Act – AM New York, March 30, 2022
NYCCLI Statement on NYS Budget, March 10, 2022
East NY Land Trust Targets 18 Vacant City-Owned Properties for Community Ownership – BK Reader, March 9, 2022
As NYC Considers Scrapping Tax Lien Sale, Land Trust Plan Gains Steam – City Limits, March 1, 2022
Activists And Electeds Cheer End Of The Rudy Giuliani Created NYC Tax Lien Sale – Harlem World, March 1, 2022
Lien on Me – The Baffler, February 10, 2022
Protect NYC Public Land for the Common Good – Daily News Op-Ed, November 21, 2021
‘East New York is Not For Sale’: Community Land Trust Movement Sees Hope in Racial Justice Commission – Brooklyn Paper, November 10, 2021
NYCCLI Member blog: Public Land in Public Hands: Community Land Trusts Demand Control of City Land, September 28, 2021
Interboro CLT: A Committed Pipeline from Powerhouse Community Development Groups – Shelterforce, June 13, 2021
Housing Advocates Make One Last Stand Before the FY 2022 Budget Vote – AM New York, June 29, 2021
Community Groups, Rep. Velázquez, Public Advocate Williams, Council Members Call for Full Funding of Community Land Trusts in NYC Budget – Press Release, June 29, 2021
Poll: The Bold Policies New York City Voters Want From Their Next Mayor – The Appeal, June 4, 2021
New York City Considers A Bold Idea to Keep People From Being Pushed Out of Their Homes – The Appeal, March 29, 2021
A Habitat Chapter Embraces Community Land Trusts in the Big Apple – Nonprofit Quarterly, February 18, 2021
Chinatowns Across North America Share Challenges and Stories of Resilience During COVID-19 – International Examiner, February 11, 2021
Tax Lien Sale Bill Asks for Reform Taskforce – Kings County Politics, February 3, 2021
NYC Council Lays Groundwork to Abolish Guiliani-Era Lien Sale – Press Release, February 2, 2021
What ‘Cancel Rent’ Means to NYC Homeowners and Small Landlords – The City, January 28, 2021
City Council Pushes For Bills to Help Nonprofits Get Advantage on Apartment Building Sales – AM New York, January 20, 2021
City Council Mulls Bill Giving Nonprofits First Crack at Buying Resi Buildings – The Real Deal, January 19, 2021
Harlem Land Trust Secures Historic Deal For Affordable Housing – Patch, November 30, 2020
NYCCLI Member blog: Sankofa and Self-Determination: Learning from Seattle’s Africatown CLT, October 30, 2020
Council Considers Killing the Tax-Collection Machine Rudy Giuliani Built – The City, October 22, 2020
NYCCLI Member blog: From NYC to California, Communities Take Control of Land, September 22, 2020
From the NYCCLI blog: Land, Housing and Racial Justice, June 29, 2020
OpEd: Supporting The East New York Community Land Trust: A Tool To Increase And Protect Affordable Homeownership – East New York News, OpEd by Afiya Lahens, Niani Taylor and Albert Scott Jr., June 29, 2020
Advocates: NYC Needs More Money, New Model to Meet Housing Crisis – City Limits, June 26, 2020
NYCCLI Member blog: From the Boogiedown to Beantown: A CLT Road Trip, February 18, 2020
With Mass Evictions and Real Estate Speculation Looming, City and State Leaders Must Give Communities Opportunity to Own Their Own Land – Gotham Gazette, June 26, 2020
Housing Advocates in NYC Look to Budget to Help Curb Post-Pandemic Gentrification – amNY, June 25, 2020
Community Land Trusts Score Crucial Funds in City Budget – Curbed NY, June 18, 2019
Queens Councilman Pushes Community Land Trust Funding With an Eye on Rockaway Neighborhood – QNS, June 13, 2019
Opinion: City Must Invest in Bold Housing Solutions Like Community Land Trusts – City Limits, June 10, 2019
Budget Could Boost City’s Nascent Community Land Trust Movement – City Limits, June 3, 2019
Community Groups, Housing Activists, and Electeds Call on NYC to Take Bold Action to Tackle The Housing Crisis by Supporting Community Land Trusts – Press Release, May 16, 2019
Opinion: Why NYC is Rapidly Losing Low-Rent Apartments – City Limits, May 13, 2019
CityLab University: Shared-Equity Homeownership – CityLab, April 29, 2019
Little-Used Community Land Trust Model for Affordable Housing May See Big Boost – Gotham Gazette, April 18, 2019
On City Streets and in Wild Landscapes, the Fight for America’s Soul in 2020 is About Land – City Limits, April 16, 2019
Outraged By Property Sales To Luxury Developers, Affordable Housing Group Takes On The Catholic Church – Gothamist, March 14, 2019
What Will Happen to This New York Homeowner Protection Program? – Next City, December 18, 2018
NYC Needs Equitable Economic Development, Not the Amazon Deal – City Limits, November 28, 2018
Community Land Trusts Take Aim at Rising Rents – Curbed, April 17, 2018
Ownership as Social Relation: Nonprofit Strategies to Build Community Wealth through Land – NonProfit Quarterly, December 11, 2018
The NYC Community Land Trust Movement Wants to Go Big – City Limits, January 8, 2018
Council Passes Key Housing Bills at Busy Last Meeting – City Limits, December 20, 2017
New York City Becomes a Hotbed of Community Land Trust Innovation – Shelterforce, November 7, 2017
NYC Nonprofits Use Land Trusts, Co-ops to Satisfy Residents’ Economic Needs Post Sandy – NonProfit Quarterly, November 1, 2017
CityViews: Community Land Trusts are a Path to Affordable Homeownership – City Limits, October 19, 2017
The Solution to Our Housing Crisis Is to Let Communities Own Property – The Nation, August 29, 2017
Can Connecting Rent To Income, Not Market Rates, Change The Affordability Of Cities? – Fast Company, August 18, 2017
NYC Just Made Its Biggest Commitment Ever To A Radical Affordable Housing Model – Gothamist, August 4, 2017
Momentum for NYC Community Land Trusts Gets $1.65M Boost – Next City , July 26, 2017
City Dips Toe Into Funding Community Land Trusts – City Limits, July 19, 2017
Enterprise Awards New York City $1.65 Million to Support the Formation and Expansion of Community Land Trusts – New York City Department of Housing, Preservation and Development Press Release, July 19, 2017
Two NYC Communities to Get Public Space Revamp – Next City, July 17, 2017
Local Coalition Wins Citywide Design Award – Mott Haven Herald, July 14, 2017
Community Land Trusts Gaining Traction in New York – Real Estate Weekly, May 18, 2017
From Georgia to NYC: The Civil Rights Roots of Community Land Trusts – City Limits, March 16, 2017
Backers of Community Land Trusts Seek to Broaden Support – City Limits, February 7, 2017
NYC Opens Door Wide to Community Land Trusts – Next City, February 1, 2017
HPD Moves Closer to Community Land Trusts – Times Ledger, January 16, 2017
Is NYC Squandering Affordable Housing By Selling Tax Debt To A ‘Multinational’ Bank? – Gothamist, January 13, 2017
De Blasio Admin. Opens Door to Community Land Trusts – City Limits, January 10, 2017
Taking Back the South Bronx – WNYC, November 17, 2016
Council Bill Would Boost Land Trusts as Way to Keep Housing Affordable – City Limits, September 14, 2016
City Slow to Embrace Land Trusts as Housing Tool – City Limits, May 9, 2016
Why Are Hundreds Of Affordable NYC Apartments Vacant – Gothamist, March 9, 2016
Support Community Land Trusts for Affordable Housing – New York Times, December 1, 2015
Community Control: Organizing for Community Land Trusts in NYC – New Economy Project, November 12, 2015
The Ungentrifiers – Brendan O’Connor, The Awl, July 30, 2015
Ask the Homeless What They Need – William S. Burnett, a housing campaign leader and board member at Picture the Homeless, New York Times Room for Debate, February 19, 2015
Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy – Susan Saegert, Metro Politics, January 26, 2015
The Best and Worst Urban Trends of 2014 – Next City, December 22, 2014
Landlords and Risk– John Krinsky, Opinion pages on New York Times, November 6, 2014
The Value of Land: How Community Land Trusts Maintain Housing Affordability – Oksana Mironova, Urban Omnibus, April 29th, 2014
Get Creative with Housing Laws – Lisa T. Alexander, The New York Times Room for Debate, April 15, 2014
Homelessness, Community Land Trusts, and the Future of NYC Neighborhoods: A Conversation with Sam Miller – Kevin Ryan, New York Foundation, April 9, 2014
Ten Takeaways on Rent Reform: “Talk to Your Neighbors” – Whitney Kimball, Art F City, April 1, 2014
Homeless Folks Have Real Solutions to the Housing Crisis – Arvernetta Henry, Scott Hutchins, Lynn Lewis, Felipe Martinez, Sam J. Miller, Marcus Moore, and Stanley Stevenson, The Indypendent, February 24, 2014
Letter to the Mayor: Recommendations From Students of De Blasio’s Alma Mater –Gotham Gazette, January 8, 2014
Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For – Jesse A. Myerson, Rolling Stone, January 3, 2014
Community Board 11 Approves an Affordable Housing Initiative for East Harlem – Amanda Burrill and Vikram Sohonie, Columbia Journalism School, November 13, 2013
Talking Community Land Trusts With Talking Transitions – Elise Goldin, Surreal Estate, November 12, 2013
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