This map and the below table displays CNCLT’s CLT members throughout Canada. Click here to become a member.

Northern Community Land Trust Society

The Northern Community Land Trust Society (NCLTS), in partnership with local governments, seeks to build a portfolio of permanently affordable housing in Yukon.

False Creek South Community Housing Trust

The FCS CHT is a community-based organization that sustains existing and develops new affordable homes to protect and amplify the livability of False Creek South’s mixed-income community.

They see exciting potential in the FCS CHT as a vehicle for addressing many of the key concerns and needs of their community, as well as the wider Vancouver community facing an unprecedented housing crisis.
Aboriginal Land Trust Aboriginal Land Trust serves people in need with hope and Indigenous ways of knowing and being. It is a BC non-profit society that helps create affordable housing for indigenous communities.
Community Land Trust Foundation of BC The Community Land Trust Foundation of BC works to create, preserve and steward permanently affordable homes. They are housed under CHF BC, the Co-operative Housing Foundation of BC.
Denman Community Housing Society The Denman Community Housing Society is working to create secure, long-term affordable housing for low-income earners and those on fixed incomes.
Downtown Eastside Community Land Trust The DTES CLT aims to acquire land and premises mainly in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia and own such real property in perpetuity in order to construct, hold, manage and maintain affordable housing for residents of the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver of low income or low and moderate income; and
Cultural Land Trust The Cultural Land Trust, associated with the Vancouver-based arts nonprofit 221a, aims to increase long term security of tenure of space for cultural and arts purposes in BC through ownership and stewardship of land and buildings.
Hogan’s Alley Community Land Trust The Hogan’s Alley Society’s mission is to advance the social, political, economic and cultural well-being of people of African descent (Black people) through the delivery of inclusive housing, built spaces, and culturally informed programming and operations.
Gabriola Island Land Stewards Society The Gabriola Island Land Stewards (GILSS) works to benefit Gabriolans and Snuneymuxw First Nation members and relieve poverty by acquiring and stewarding land on Gabriola Island under a community ownership model that promotes long-term community benefits, affordability and sustainability, and enables democratic local planning.
Kamloops Community Land Trust Foundation In Kamloops, there is strong desire and momentum to increase the supply of housing; in particular to provide and preserve attainable housing opportunities for those with low to moderate incomes, including seniors. The Kamloops CLT Foundations seeks to prioritize the long-term housing needs of the community and seek proposals to develop land to meet a specific need. With land costs and large profits removed from the development cost, the result is low-cost, attainable market housing.
Arts and Community Infrastructure (ACI) Foundation Located in Victoria, the Arts and Community Infrastructure (ACI) Foundation is exploring the possibilities of a CLT model for their work.

 

Calgary Urban Indigenous Community Land Trust The Calgary Urban Indigenous Community Land Trust Development Project will identify and develop a localized Indigenous CLT model. The model will be co-designed with the community, including Indigenous Elders and urban Indigenous community stakeholders.
Canmoreland CLT Canmoreland CLT’s mission is community conservation: to acquire, hold, and steward space of all kinds ensuring its highest and best use for the community, now and into the future. Community conservation is achieved by removing space from the speculative market, preserving it as permanently accessible, affordable, and sustainable space for those who live, work, and raise their families in the Bow Valley, Alberta.
West Broadway Community Land Trust The West Broadway Community Land Trust works to protect and strengthen our diverse, community-focused neighbourhood by resisting real estate speculation, preserving affordability, and ensuring long-term housing stability for all residents in the West Broadway neighbourhood of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

 

Community Land Trust of Niagara CLT of Niagara aims to acquire and hold land and buildings to provide affordable housing to residents of St. Catharines and the surrounding area, in partnership with other agencies and organizations interested in relieving poverty and homelessness.
South Etobicoke Community Land Trust The South Etobicoke Community Land Trust acquires land and buildings to foster an inclusive, diverse, and accessible community where permanent affordable housing, community benefits and intergenerational connections are cultivated.
Circle Community LandTrust Circle works to protect and invest in our scattered house portfolio to foster stability, opportunity and community for our tenants and to grow Toronto’s affordable housing stock.
Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust (PNLT) is a not-for-profit community land trust in Parkdale led by a group of residents and organizations trying to protect the social, cultural and economic diversity of Parkdale by redefining how land is used and developed. Through the community land trust model, PNLT owns land and assures it is used tomeet the needs of the community by leasing it to non-profit partners who can provide affordable housing, furnish spaces for social enterprises and non-profit organizations, and offer urban agriculture and open space.
Toronto Islands Residential Community Trust Corp. The Trust is mandated to provide stewardship of the Island Residential Community, ensuring that this community is maintained according to the principles which islanders fought hard for in their 30 year effort to retain their homes.
Muskoka CLT The MCLT is a community led, nonprofit organization which benefits Muskoka by acquiring and stewarding lands, for the purpose of developing permanently affordable housing, social enterprise and food security.
Kensington Market Community Land Trust The Kensington Market Community Land Trust is incorporated to acquire and provide for the management of land, in perpetuity, in or near the area bounded by the west side of Spadina Avenue, the south side of College Street, the east side of Bathurst Street, and the north side of Dundas Street (Toronto’s Kensington Market).It removes property from the pressure of the commercial real estate market, with the overarching goal of land use for local community benefit.
Glassworks Cooperative Glassworks property is located on 46 acres of land located on the easten bluffs, held in trust by Grey County Land Stewardship Corporation. The land will be held in perpetuity for development in accordance with Glassworks’ Mission, Values and Vision.
North Hastings Community Trust To work with our community to provide emergency and sustainable solutions to poverty in North Hastings (our affordable housing-focused CLT is a program within the larger North Hastings Community Trust (NHCT) organization).
Hamilton Community Land Trust To acquire and steward land, facilitating its use by and for Hamilton’s communities.
Community & Cultural Spaces Trust To create and facilitate sustainable processes for acquiring and maintaining real property for use by community, cultural and arts organizations in the Bloor Dufferin neighbourhood.
Ottawa CLT As an incorporated non-profit, the Ottawa Community Land Trust (OCLT) operates as a social enterprise, pursuing innovative ways of preserving housing affordability. Its mandate is twofold: to acquire existing rental properties to turn into non-profit affordable housing, and to secure vacant land to develop various types of affordable housing in the future. The OCLT is committed to keeping housing affordable in this area forever.
Opportunity Villages CLT To provide pathways to affordable homeownership for residents of Southwestern Ontario.
Toronto Chinatown Land Trust The Toronto Chinatown Land Trust (TCLT) is a community-controlled effort to build an inclusive, culturally competent, and ever-evolving Chinatown in Toronto. We acquire, develop and steward land, in perpetuity, for community needs and benefit.
Temiskaming District Community Land Trust The Temiskaming District Community Land Trust project will create an Indigenous women-led land trust within the Districts of Temiskaming and Cochrane. This community land trust (CLT) will be a local, grassroots solution for creating affordable housing for Indigenous Peoples in Northern Ontario.
Junction Village CLT (Guelph) The JVG-CLT provides alternative land ownership and management to protect the community space and affordability for residents and members of the Junction Village Guelph. The JV-CLT will acquire land in the community—either by purchasing land directly or through donations of land and buildings, or money to purchase land. This land is held in perpetuity so that it can always be used for housing the people who make up the community.
Community and Cultural Spaces Trust CCST’s mandate is to create and facilitate sustainable processes for acquiring and maintaining real property for use by community, cultural and arts organizations in the Bloor Dufferin neighbourhood.
Sundance Commons
Sundance Commons is an agricultural non-profit that operates at four farm locations in southwestern Ontario. We provide the tools, guidance, and access for new farmers who face barriers to entry in the agricultural sector and land access more broadly.
Sundance Commons envisions a regenerative and food-secure world where the equity and agency of farm workers is centred.
Little Jamaica Community Land Trust
Little Jamaica Community Land Trust, spearheaded by Black Urbanism Toronto, is working to put the historic Little Jamaica Neighbourhood back in the hands of the community.
Stratford Affordable Housing Alliance
A new citizen’s group, the Stratford Affordable Housing Alliance (SAHA), hopes to support the City of Stratford in improving housing. They met this month at The Local to discuss the obstacles and opportunities of the housing crisis from the perspective of people who actually have to deal with problems like high rent and the unavailability of homes for young families.
Davenport Perth Community Ministry/Gete-onigaming Community Land Trust
This Community Land Trust working group began forming in 2024 and is in the process of creating a non-profit group that will address the identified community needs of housing, access to food, and recreation.
Eglinton Vaughan Community Land Trust
Eglinton Vaughan Community Land Trust (EVCLT) is a non for profit organization in Toronto’s little Jamaica’s community committed to protecting its cultural make up and securing community assets.
Community Living Ajax-Pickering and Whitby
Community Living is a family-based association assisting people who have an intellectual disability and their families to lead the way in advancing inclusion, exploring how a CLT model could work for this mandate.

 

La Communauté Milton-Parc (CLT)

The Milton Park Community (CMP) is a unique housing cooperative network with roots in community organizing in the 1970s, housing more than 1,500 people in low and moderate income housing in 616 apartments. The members of the cooperative are not individuals but social organizations. Their goals are the preservation of affordable housing in the city center and the safeguarding of elements of architectural heritage.

La Communauté Milton-Parc (CMP) est un réseau unique de coopératives de logement dont les racines remontent à l’organisation communautaire des années 1970. Elle héberge plus de 1 500 personnes à revenu faible ou modéré dans 616 appartements. Les membres de la coopérative ne sont pas des individus mais des organisations sociales. Leurs objectifs sont la préservation de logements abordables dans le centre ville et la sauvegarde d’éléments du patrimoine architectural.
Foncier Solidaire Brome Missisquoi

This project is creating community land trust (CLT) in the region of Brome-Missisquoi, east of Montreal. The group will be protecting land and buildings from speculation in order to generate truly and perpetually affordable housing for all. CLTs are a powerful tool for inclusive and solidarity-based territorial development. CLTs managed will integrate residential, commercial, agricultural and natural spaces.

Ce projet vise à créer une fiducie foncière communautaire (FFC) dans la région de Brome-Missisquoi, à l’est de Montréal. Le groupe protégera les terrains et les bâtiments de la spéculation afin de produire des logements réellement et perpétuellement abordables pour tous. Les CLT sont un outil puissant de développement territorial inclusif et solidaire. Les CLT gérés intégreront des espaces résidentiels, commerciaux, agricoles et naturels.
Brique par Brique

Brique par brique (BxB) is a nonprofit rooted in Parc-Extension, working to resist displacement and promote social justice through the collective stewardship of land. Founded by community organizers, BxB develops affordable housing, community spaces, and cultural programming by and for residents—particularly low-income newcomers and immigrants facing systemic barriers. Through grassroots leadership, solidarity, and research, we build a more equitable and inclusive neighbourhood for current and future generations.

Brique par brique (BxB) est une association à but non lucratif ancrée dans Parc-Extension, qui s’efforce de résister au déplacement et de promouvoir la justice sociale par le biais de la gestion collective des terres. Fondée par des organisateurs communautaires, BxB développe des logements abordables, des espaces communautaires et des programmes culturels par et pour les résidents – en particulier les nouveaux arrivants à faible revenu et les immigrants confrontés à des obstacles systémiques. Grâce au leadership de la base, à la solidarité et à la recherche, nous construisons un quartier plus équitable et plus inclusif pour les générations actuelles et futures.
FUS Laurentides

FUS Laurentides is a social utility trust whose objective is to promote access to affordable housing and home ownership for employees of companies and organizations located on the territory of the MRC des Laurentides and in the general interest of the beneficiaries.

FUS Laurentides est une fiducie d’utilité sociale dont l’objectif est de favoriser l’accès au logement abordable et à la propriété pour les employés des entreprises et organismes situés sur le territoire de la MRC des Laurentides et ce, dans l’intérêt général des bénéficiaires.
Ahunstic FUS

A proposed FUS project in a major redevelopment site.

Un projet de FUS dans un site de réaménagement majeur.

 

Halifax Affordable Housing Land Trust Creating a municipal-scale community land trust to address systemic housing challenges in Halifax
Weymouth Falls Community Land Trust WFCLT’s mission is to provide a platform for a vibrant community voice that stewards the land of Weymouth Falls by intersecting opportunity for growth and development with historical preservation of its cultural identity and assets. They seek to create a passionately empowered and actively engaged community.
Upper Hammonds Plains CLT We will work to preserve the cultural heritage and economic prosperity of our neighborhoods through collective ownership, stewardship, and control of land. We will work to build a future where black families and individuals have access to affordable housing, economic opportunities, and the tools they need to build intergenerational wealth.
DownTheMarsh Community Land Trust Black-led CLT aiming to re-establish a historically Black neighbourhood in Truro.
New Roots Community Land Trust The New Roots Community Land Trust is an African Nova Scotian led non-profit organization with a mission to secure the economic and cultural legacy in a historically ANS neighbourhood.
Akoma Holdings Inc. In 1921, the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children (NSHCC) was developed to provide care and education for orphaned and homeless African Nova Scotian children. The Old Home orphanage closed in 1978/79 when two new group home structures were developed.Akoma is committed to providing stewardship of its assets to create economic and social opportunities for the African Nova Scotian Community and general society.
Nova Scotia Working Woodlands Trust The Nova Scotia Working Woodlands Trust was established to address a gap in land conservation across the province, by offering a solution for landowners who want to continue working on their woodland while ensuring long-term stewardship and conservation through Working Forest Community Easements.
Crows’ Commons Co-operative Crows’ Commons Co-operative provides pathways to culturally relevant and affordable housing, art, and farming for 2SLGBTQIA+ and disabled folks. We are an emerging land-sharing cooperative based on principles of commoning, coming together to grow food, make art, build housing, and nurture our community. We advocate for more accessible and inclusive rural communities and we envision the Commons as a place that holds and nurtures our creative spirits through gatherings, performance, respite, skill sharing, and community building.

 

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