Tufts University students create a 150-page report about BNCLT!

A team of students from Tufts University worked tirelessly this spring to create a timely tool for the CLT Movement: "Measuring the Impacts of Boston Neighborhood Community Land Trust." This fantastic report was crafted by Tufts Urban and Environmental Planning & Policy students Cassandra Bull, Andrea Duarte, Peyton Siler Jones, Joshua McLinden, and Lillian Worth.

The report begins by discussing the ways that community land trusts address the root causes of housing instability and inequality, drawing in data specific to the BNCLT properties that was collected by the student researchers. Quotes from BNCLT residents are interspersed with statistical data about housing inequality locally. The authors weave together a story about the relevance of the BNCLT as a tool for housing justice, as well as the financial realities of BNCLT’s present and future. The report concludes with specific policy recommendations, such as the establishment of a public CLT Acquisition fund.

According to the student researchers: “We want to thank all the organizers, residents, and supporters of community land trusts and tenants’ rights, specifically in Boston, who have paved the way for the success of this project and helped grow the CLT movement in the fight for resident led planning, community control of land, and anti-displacement.”