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A Community Land Trust Is Purchasing Commercial Property in NYC for the First Time – Next City, June 9, 2026
From Rent Strike to Community Ownership, A New Vision for Housing in East Harlem – City Limits Opinion, June 6, 2026
A South Bronx Health Center Will Rise Again, Thanks to Local Organizers – Next City, June 1, 2026
Community Land Trust Plans ‘Liberation Center’ in East New York Warehouse – Brownstoner, May 27, 2026
COPA Reaches Majority Support in City Council Just One Week After Reintroduction – Press Release, May 21, 2026
Council Member Nurse, Tenants, and Community Groups Announce Reintroduction of the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) with Rally at City Hall Amid Deepening Housing and Affordability Crisis – Press Release, May 14, 2026
Mamdani Co-Signs Comeback of Nonprofit Property COPA Bill Vetoed by Adams – AMNY, February 18, 2026
Opinion: The Council Passed COPA. Now It Must Override Eric Adams’ Veto – City Limits, January 26, 2026
COPA, the “Community Opportunity to Purchase Act” – BronxTalk, January 12, 2026
The Clock Is Ticking For NYC To Save Community Opportunity To Purchase – Next City, January 8, 2026
City Council Passes Groundbreaking COPA Housing Law – Pix11, December 19, 2025
City Council Passes COPA, Following Multi-Year Push by Council Member Sandy Nurse and 200+ Housing & Community Groups – Press Release, December 18, 2025
NYC Passes Bill Giving Nonprofits First Chance to Buy Certain Buildings – City Limits, December 18, 2025Why We Need the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act – Sunset Post Op-Ed, December 18, 2025
COPA Has Helped Prevent Displacement in San Francisco. It Can Work in New York City, Too. – Next City Op-Ed, December 16, 2025
Opinion: The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act Gives Older Adults a Fighting Chance to Stay in Their Homes – City & State New York, December 15, 2025
The Legal Case for Passing COPA Now – City Limits Opinion, December 10, 2025
Nonprofits Can Help Deliver an Affordable City – Daily News Opinion, December 9, 2025
A Community Land Trust Movement Rises in New York City: Leadership Lessons – Nonprofit Quarterly, December 3, 2025
Council Revamps Bill Giving Housing Groups First Dibs to Buy — and Landlords Still Object – The City, December 2, 2025
Social Housing Bill Poised for Breakthrough in City Council – City Limits, December 1, 2025
Community Land Trusts Are Standing Up to New York City’s Worst Landlords – The Nation, September 10, 2025
Opinion: NYC Needs Land and Housing for People, Not Profit – City Limits Opinion, June 6, 2025
Social Housing Supporters Revive Push to Boost Nonprofit & Community Ownership – City Limits, June 5, 2025
Council Holds Historic Hearing on Social Housing Package as NYC’s Housing Crisis Hits Breaking Point – Press Release, June 3, 2025
Tenants Rally in Brooklyn for First Rights to Buy Building – BK Reader, May 3, 2025
Affordable Housing? Bill Designed to Give New Leverage to Tenants and Nonprofit Housing Groups Moves Forward – The Village View, May 2, 2025
There’s a Community Oversight Fight Brewing in the Bronx – Shelterforce, April 2, 2025
Hell’s Kitchen Tenants Fight to Turn Neglected Buildings into Community-Owned Housing – W42ST, March 31, 2025
So Many Land Trusts Launched in NYC That They Created a Map – Next City Podcast, March 20, 2025
Opinion: Helping NYC Tenants Take Over Their Buildings – City Limits, March 19, 2025
50 Environmental, Community Groups Demand Passage of “Public Land for Public Good” in Letter to Speaker Adrienne Adams – Press Release, March 3, 2025
What is a Community Land Trust? How Does it Help Low-Income Buyers? – Brick Underground, February 25, 2025
Opinion: Time for a Shift in NYC’s Affordable Housing Plans? – City Limits, February 25, 2025
Tenant Groups Push for Stronger Housing Protections in New York Budget – Finger Lakes 1, February 5, 2025
A New Map Tracks the Growth of NYC’s Community Land Trusts – Next City, February 5, 2025
Opinion: Wall Street Fuels Predatory Real Estate. It’s Time for a Public Bank Alternative – City Limits, January 31, 2025
Advocates Call for Bold Housing Reforms Following Hochul’s State of the State – Finger Lakes 1, January 18, 2025
Community Land Trusts – Bronx Buzz, November 22, 2024
NYC Legislation Gives Communities More Control Over Housing – Public News Service, November 5, 2024
Affordable Housing Tenants in Carroll Gardens Fight to Stay in Their Homes – Brooklyn Reader, November 1, 2024
Tenants, Officials Rally to Save 63 Tiffany Place, in Gentrifying Brooklyn Neighborhood – Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 1, 2024
Brooklyn Tenants Want Owner to Sell Building to Them Instead of Highest Bidder – ABC News, October 31, 2024
State, City-Elected Officials & Brooklyn Tenants Rally to Urge Landlord to Sell Cobble Hill Apartment – News 12 Brooklyn, October 31, 2024
Longtime Residents Fight to Stay in Carroll Gardens Affordable Housing – Pix11, October 31, 2024
Brooklyn Tenants Hope to Buy Apartment Building Over Fears Rent Will Skyrocket – CBS News, October 31, 2024
Irving Langer’s Tenants Want to Buy His Building – The Real Deal, October 31, 2024
New York City Was Ghoulish On Collecting Property Debt. These Council Members Are Changing That. – Next City Op-Ed, October 3, 2024
Mott Haven Gets Waterfront Access For 1st Time in 100 Years – CBS New York, August 12, 2024
Western Queens Neighbors Envision New Community Hub in Underused City Building – CBS New York, August 12, 2024
Opinion: Mayor’s City of Yes is Really a ‘City of Cake’ – City Limits, July 11, 2024
A Very Noncorporate Project Floated in Queens where Amazon Wanted ‘HQ2’ – Gothamist, June 20, 2024
Council and Mayor Move to Revive Stalled Property Tax Debt Collections – The City, June 18, 2024
Washington Heights Tenants Call for Co-Op Conversion in Continued Fight Against City’s ‘Worst Landlord’ – Amsterdam News, June 13, 2024
Rockaway Nonprofit Opens ‘Requests for Qualifications’ for Developers to Help Bring Over 100 Affordable Homes to Edgemere – QNS, June 11, 2024
Dozens of Washington Heights Tenants Fight Landlord for Repairs; Want Ownership of Homes – PIX11, June 10, 2024
Tenants of ‘Worst Landlord in NYC’ Demand Ownership of Washington Heights Buildings – Fox 5, June 10, 2024
Neighbors Organize Against Deed Theft, Call Out Investors Who Target Heirs – Brownstoner, June 7, 2024
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams Discusses State of the People Address (Conversation about the Community Land Act begins at 5:00)- Inside City Hall, May 22, 2024
Hate That Vacant Lot in Your Neighborhood? Turn It Into Something Great – Dwell, May 7, 2024
Pushback Grows as Council and Mayor Hash Out Deal to Revive Property Debt Sell-Off – The City, April 12, 2024
NYC’s Debt Collection Program is Being Replaced. Advocates Hope its flaws can be Fixed – Gothamist, April 11, 2024
Council Members on ‘Community-Controlled’ Affordable Housing – The Brian Lehrer Show, March 21, 2024
Community Land Trust Shaking Up Apartment Ownership In Brooklyn – Bisnow, March 18, 2024
Want to own your NYC apartment? This nonprofit is helping renters buy their units – Gothamist, March 18, 2024
Opinion: Social housing is public safety – City & State, March 14, 2024
‘For us and by us’: South Bronx advocates celebrate progress on new community center – Bronx Times, February 23, 2024
Six New Yorkers Who Made the City a Better, Cooler, Fairer Place in 2023 – New York Times, December 29, 2023
NYC Is Giving Public Lands to For-Profit Developers That Price Out Locals, Report Finds – Vice, November 2, 2023
New Research Shows Nonprofits Vastly Outdid For-Profits in Creation of Deeply Affordable Housing – Press Release, November 2, 2023
BK’s 4 Community Land Trusts Could Revolutionize Affordable Housing, Experts Say – Brooklyn Reader, September 18, 2023
In New York, Proposed Legislation Grants Opportunity to Tenants and Community Land Trusts to Purchase Land or Buildings – The Architect’s Newspaper, September 8, 2023
Opinion: For a Healthier City, New York Must Pass the Community Land Act – City & State New York, July 18, 2023
Community Land Trusts Are Working to Create New Homeowners – New York Times, July 8, 2023
Piden Concejo Municipal Apruebe Paquete de Leyes en Favor de Vivienda Asequible – Spectrum Noticias NY1, June 23, 2023
New York’s Moment for Community Land and Affordable Housing – Gotham Gazette, June 22, 2023
New York City Council Pushes Affordable Housing Package – NYN Media, May 3, 2023
New York Considers Community Land Trusts – The Prospect, May 3, 2023
Opinion: With Community Land Trusts Back in the Spotlight, Lessons from 1970s NYC – City Limits, April 27, 2023
Social Housing in the Spotlight: NYC Lawmakers Seek ‘Paradigm Shift’ in Tackling Affordability Crisis – City Limits, March 10, 2023
Community Groups Push for Community Control of Open Space in the South Bronx – Mott Haven Herald, March 3, 2023
‘Public Land For Public Good,’ Say Housing Advocates – New York Amsterdam News, March 2, 2023
Progressive Pols Press NYC Council to Prioritize Nonprofit Housing Ownership – AM New York, February 24, 2023
NYC Comptroller, Public Advocate, Council Members, Advocates Rally for New Vision for Housing – Press Release, February 23, 2023
Why Brooklyn Residents Want Public Land In Public Hands – Next City, February 9, 2023
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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