Community land Trust-Based Renovation: Aligning sustainability with social protection and community empowerment To address this, EU policymakers should use the forthcoming European Affordable Housing Plan to underpin new sustainability requirements of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), now...
Can CLTs play a role in climate policy? The following contribution was written by Geert de Pauw (Community Land Trust Brussels) for the blog of the International Center for Community Land Trusts, as a contribution to the upcoming webinar on...
Supporting the Upcycling Trust Project: A Researcher’s Perspective The following contribution was written by Jeanne Mosseray, PhD Researcher at Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research as a contribution to the upcoming webinar on”Using CLTs to Deliver Energy Renovation a...
Webinar recording: Using CLTs to Deliver Energy Renovation and Permanent Affordability to Existing Housing On 25 September, the International Center for Community Land Trust , in collaboration with partners of the Upcycling Trust project, hosted an insightful webinar focused on the role of CLTs in promotin...
What is a Community Land Trust (CLT) and what is an Organisme de Foncier Solidaire (OFS)? The model of Community Land Trusts (CLTs) and Organismes Fonciers Solidaires (OFS) offers an innovative and hybrid form of ownership suitable for upcycling substandard buildings into affordable housin...
Webinar: Using CLTs to Deliver Energy Renovation and Permanent Affordability to Existing Housing Description Facing the twin challenges of producing more affordable housing and addressing climate change, cities across the world are caught between the need for producing more housing while protecti...
And off we go! Kick-off meeting in Lille The kick-off meeting of the Upcycling Trust project in Lille marked a significant step in addressing the urgent challenge of the renovation and the decomodification* of housing. Context The housing cr...