Oakland Community Land Trust

This Friday at 5pm Pacific, join the California Community Land Trust Network (CACLTN) as we learn from the editors (John Emmeus Davis and Maria E Hernandez Torrales of the Center for Community Land Trust Innovation!) of the newly released book on the international CLT movement: On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust. This event will also launch the California CLT Academy a comprehensive academy of workshops that CACLTN is developing to trai...n in all things CLT. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/international-clt-movement-boo Event will be accessible in Spanish and English.

If you are inclined to support a nonprofit org on #GivingTuesday, please consider making a contribution that will directly benefit current and future OakCLT residents. #communitylandtrust #housingisahumanright https://oakclt.org/support-us/

Let’s help get this film about Moms 4 Housing made! This crowdfunding campaign has only 2 days left! You can support the film and see a trailer here:

OakCLT is hiring! We have two new full-time staff positions open: a Project Manager to lead our home rehabilitation work, and a Stewardship Coordinator to support OakCLT residents on their paths to become homeowners. More info and position descriptions are available on our website. https://oakclt.org/about/work-with-oakclt/

Thanks to San Francisco Foundation for this investment in OakCLT's resident-led anti-displacement work!

If you love the town and you're tired of the senseless violence JOIN US

Fantastic, wide ranging interview with Gus Newport by John Emmeus Davis at the Center for Community Land Trust Innovation. https://vimeo.com/468732017

Oakland Affordable Housing Opportunity! 209 new affordable apartments are available for families and seniors at the newly built Brooklyn Basin Housing Complex. ...EBAYC, along with wide coalition of neighborhood groups, advocated for affordable housing to be a key component of this new housing development, and we are thrilled to see our work come to fruition. Family apartment application: http://www.midpen-housing.org/paseoestero Senior apartment application: http://www.midpen-housing.org/vistaestero Paper applications are also available at the EBAYC office (at 2025 East 12th Street, Oakland). The application period closes on Monday, November 2, at 5:00pm.

Happening tomorrow at 2pm! Thanks to Alameda County Library for hosting a screening of Arc of Justice with @gus.newport.79 & @marklipmansf. Registration details below:

Please consider supporting the great work of our friends and fam at Cycles of Change!

"Whenever land is controlled by a community within the participatory framework of a CLT, the transformative potential is present to nudge the places where people reside toward greater security and opportunity for all. Common ground provides a versatile platform for promoting development with justiceand justice that lasts." #commonground

We need to make sure corporate real estate investors and speculators don’t take advantage of the #COVID19 crisis like they did in the Great Recession. Support #AB1703 and Californians’ right to stable housing. #StableHomes4All #residentcontrolledhousing #communityownedland

As we mourn the death and celebrate the life of civil rights warrior, John Lewis, CLT activists should be reminded of his early support for the cooperative mode...l of tenure that became known as the community land trust. In 1968, he participated in the first planning session for New Communities Inc., convened by Slater King, Charles Sherrod, Bob Swann and others on their return to the USA after studying moshavim and kibbutzim in Israel. Ten years later, he was the plenary speaker at the first national CLT conference in Atlanta. More recently, he was featured in the 2016 documentary, ARC OF JUSTICE: THE RISE, FALL AND REBIRTH OF A BELOVED COMMUNITY. In that film, he lauded New Communities for being a new way of thinking; a new way of doing something: cooperative land ownership; not just an individual, but a community. The CLT movement has lost a faithful champion. See more

The real estate speculators, flippers, vultures are swarming around the flatlands of Oakland, looking to take advantage of the uncertainty of now and struggles residents are facing. They're also wildly, laughably mistaken when targeting OakCLT with their direct mail marketing schemes. Community-owned land is not for sale!!!

"Getting community land ownership to scale is a political fight, however. It must be fought from the bottom-up, as with Baltimore’s community-driven Trust Fund priorities, and from top down, like with the FHA’s Duty to Serve initiative. We’ve been wandering in the desert of displacement for too long. But there is a promised landone that offers security of tenure and affordability. We will own it together." Great piece by our comrade, Peter Sabonis, at Partners for Dignity and Rights.

The #covid19 economic recovery and pursuit of #racialjustice can be simultaneously advanced by the use of #sharedequity affordable homeownership for families of... color. Grounded Solutions Network is seeking the funding to scale #CommunityLandTrusts which have proven to protect land & build wealth for communities of color in the South and across the nation. https://harpers.org//we-shall-not-be-moved-collective-own/ #WherearetheFunders Urban Land Conservancy Northwest Community Land Trust Coalition City of Lakes Community Land Trust Proud Ground Island Housing Trust Homestead CLT Athens Land Trust New Communities at Cypress Pond Oakland Community Land Trust Elevation Community Land Trust Tenemos que Reclamar y Unidos Salvar la Tierra-TRUST South La

When the #COVID19 pandemic is over, Oakland will likely face an exacerbated #housingcrisis. Oakland City Councilmember @nikki4oakland discusses a visionary new bill that could help move our city beyond recovery towards a more just housing system. #TOPA #Opportunity4Oaklanders https://youtu.be/8vxgMsnJcYg [Video Produced in Collaboration with @survivalmediaagency] ACCE Action Causa Justa Just Cause Public Advocates Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) Urban Habitat Moms 4 Housing