History of the Community Land Trust Movement
The International Center for Community Land Trusts has constructed a Timeline tracing the intellectual and political pedigree of the international community land trust movement. The modern CLT is derived from New Communities Inc., a prototype pioneered in the 1970s by African-American civil rights activists in the United States, but that “first CLT” was itself a product of seminal ideas, social experiments, and political struggles that preceded it by many years. This Timeline denotes major milestones in the CLT’s development, honoring thinkers, activists, publications, and precedents from around the world that contributed to the creation of New Communities – while highlighting key events that came after, seeding the growth of a global CLT movement. Additions will regularly be made to the Timeline as new historical information comes to light and as practitioners write new chapters in the unfolding story of the CLT.