Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts

The Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts (CNCLT) is a network of over 35 emerging and established community land trusts and allied organizations working together to ensure the success and growth of the Community Land Trust (CLT) model throughout Canada. The goal of the CNCLT is to support the growth of community land trusts with the primary purposes of providing permanently affordable housing and other community assets that serve low-to-moderate income people. CNCLT was established in July 2017 in response to renewed interest and emerging challenges associated with the CLTs in Canada. Since establishment, the CNCLT has organized regular peer-to-peer networking meetings, knowledge exchanges, and webinars on CLTs. In 2021 CNCLT formally incorporated as a non-profit corporation after receiving funding from the CMHC Demonstrations Initiatives, under the Scaling Stream, to develop a Technical Assistance Program to support the growth of Canadian CLTs. We recognize that the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts and its members are working on the traditional territories of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people. Centuries of colonialism have dispossessed Indigenous people of lands they have stewarded since time immemorial. Operating within a landscape of stolen land and broken treaties, it is imperative that the Network and its members support Indigenous self-determination and land restitution through tangible actions.