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New townhomes and condo buildings are seen in Delta, B.C., with Mount Baker in Washington state in the distance, in July 2024. Community land trusts could be a game-changer in Canada’s affordable housing crisis. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Turning houses into homes: Community land trusts offer a fix to Canada’s housing crisis

Canada treats land as a tradeable asset, forgetting it’s the foundation for homes, communities and stability. If the country is serious about solving the housing crisis, it must change that.
Efforts to build wealth for Black Americans could focus on property ownership. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Community land trusts could help heal segregated cities

Some calls to resolve racial inequities in the US have raised an idea with roots more than a century old: community land trusts to assemble property for the benefit of Black Americans.

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