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 | In 2018 the False Creek South Neighbourhood Association received funding from the Real Estate Foundation of BC and BC Housing, and in-kind support from the Co-operative Housing Federation of BC, to explore if there is support for a) working with an existing housing trust, or b) developing a new housing trust, that will manage development to help implement land use and housing policies City Council approves for False Creek South. A Housing Trust Advisory Committee has been formed. |
| 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 | We aim to create, preserve and steward permanently affordable homes. |
| Denman Community Land Trust Association | We aim to create secure, long-term affordable housing for low-income earners and those on fixed incomes. |
| Downtown Eastside Community Land Trust | We aim 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 | 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 purpose of the Gabriola Island Land Stewards (GILSS) is 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. |
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.
| Orillia Community Land Trust | In development | ||
| Garden City Community Land Trust | 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. | ||
| Union: Sustainable Development Co-operative Inc. | Union Co-operative is working to buy residential and commercial properties in Waterloo Region for permanent affordability through community ownership. | ||
| Circle Community LandTrust | 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. |
The Milton Park Community (CMP ) is a unique housing cooperative network, 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.
Solutions Immobilier Solidaire
We are creating a community land trust (CLT) in the region of Brome-Missisquoi, East of Montreal. We 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 by SiS will integrate residential, commercial, agricultural and natural spaces
Ahunstic FUSProposed FUS project in a major redevelopment site.
Une fiducie d’utilité sociale dont l’objectif est de favoriser l’accès au logement et à la propriété à coût abordable pour les employés des entreprises et des organisations situées sur le territoire de la MRC des Laurentides et dans l’intérêt général des bénéficiaires.
| Halifax Affordable Housing Land Trust | Creating a municipal-scale community land trust to address systemic housing challenges in Halifax |
| Weymouth Falls Community Land Trust | To preserve land in the African Nova Scotian community of Weymouth Falls for community benefit and use. |
| 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 reestablish o a historically Black neighbourhood in Truro. |
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Other CLT Networks
- Grounded Solutions Network (US)
- Northwest Community Land Trust Coalition (US)
- Greater Boston CLT Network
- NYC Community Lands Initiative
- California Community Land Trust Network
- Community Land Trust Network (UK)
- European Community Land Trust Network
- Australian Community Land Trust Network
- Center for CLT innovation (Global)