Community organizer communitarians who have utopian ideologies are promoting "community land trusts" at their Facebook page "Tantramar Affordable Housing" - at this link:
Tantramar Affordable Housing Initiative | Facebook
The page is run by Alice Cotton, a town councillor candidate and 'do-gooder' .. read more at this link shared at the page by James Anderson [CHMA FM Mount Allison University radio station manager]:
Meet Your New Landlord: A Local Nonprofit | Metcalf Foundation | Metcalf Foundation
"The very first community land trust, New Communities Inc., emerged from the American civil rights movement more than 50 years ago. In 1969, in rural Georgia, community organizers were looking for a way to protect African Americans from the eviction and job loss that desegregation had engendered. Taking ownership of the land they lived, worked, and farmed on looked like the best, most direct path to independence and security. Inspired by the kibbutz movement in Israel, the organizers purchased a large parcel of farmland, with profits from the sale of soy and corn used to service debt on the land. While discrimination and drought led to the collapse of the original farm in 1985, New Communities continued its mission of economic and community development. It also paved the way for dozens of other innovative CLTs across the U.S. and Europe, each with distinctive ambitions, governance structures, and financial arrangements. When Bernie Sanders was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in the 1980s, he famously championed a CLT as a way to create affordable housing in that city; it became, and remains, the largest, most successful land trust in the country. Canada was slow to adopt the model, with a few CLTs created in the 80s, largely tied to the co-op housing network or to rural land conservation. But a couple decades later, as major cities grew increasingly dense, with gentrification rampant and real estate overheating, the model became increasingly attractive."
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