Greater Boston CLT Network advocating for state funding of permanently affordable housing

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I had the opportunity to help support the Greater Boston Community Land Trust Network to advocate for state funding. The Network testified at the state house for S.1010 / H.1576. Check out this article in Bay State Banner: https://baystatebanner.com/2025/07/03/new-legislation-aims-to-create-more-permanently-affordable-housing-in-mass/ Below is the testimony I submitted on June 25, 2025. Testimony in support of S.1010 /Continue reading Greater Boston CLT Network advocating for state funding of permanently affordable housing

Community Land Trusts featured in Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2023

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The annual Greater Boston Housing Report Card, most recently released in November 2023, featured a special chapter focusing on community land trusts. I had the honor of leading a team that included Tufts UEP graduate students Chelsey Gao and Johnny Shively to draft that chapter. Check out the 2023 Greater Boston Housing Report Card here.Continue reading Community Land Trusts featured in Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2023

Report Examines Opportunities to Transfer Private Homes into Permanent Affordability

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For the third consecutive year, a team of Tufts UEP Field Projects students partnered with the Greater Boston Community Land Trust Network (GBCLTN). This year, the GBCLTN Field Projects team focused on understanding the challenges and opportunities for private homeowners to transfer their property into permanent affordability. The project drew inspiration from the challenges facedContinue reading Report Examines Opportunities to Transfer Private Homes into Permanent Affordability

Field Project Teams Work on Community Land Trusts and Community-Shared Solar

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  Tufts UEP’s Spring  2016 Field Projects addressed a range of critical issues that communities, municipalities and organizations face. The Field Projects class strives to bridge theory and practice by offering students the opportunity to partner with a community organization, municipality, public agency, or private firm on a project that addresses a real-life planning orContinue reading Field Project Teams Work on Community Land Trusts and Community-Shared Solar

Greater Boston Community Land Trust Network Launched

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Tufts UEP Lecturer Penn Loh and UEP Field Project students have been partnering to support the Greater Boston Community Land Trust Network. A report by a UEP Field Project student team was released at the Network’s launch on April 27, 2016 — Building a Livable Boston April2016ver. The report outlines the potential benefits of communityContinue reading Greater Boston Community Land Trust Network Launched

Development without Displacement: UEP Field Project Supports the Formation of the Greater Boston Community Land Trust Network

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A team of five UEP graduate students, as a part of the 2015 UEP Field Projects, worked with a nascent network of community land trusts (CLTs) in Boston to explore the value and possibilities for CLTs in the Boston area to promote development without displacement. The four partners the team worked with are the DudleyContinue reading Development without Displacement: UEP Field Project Supports the Formation of the Greater Boston Community Land Trust Network

CORE Summer 2015 Fellows Support Community Land Trusts in Chinatown and Roxbury

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Editor’s note: Danielle Ngo and Ben Baldwin, two UEP graduate students supported by Tisch College and UEP to work with UEP’s CORE (Co-Research/Co-Education) community partners, report back on their 2015 Summer Fellowship experiences. Danielle Ngo Tisch Summer Fellow at Chinese Progressive Association I was a Tisch Summer Fellow at the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) as part ofContinue reading CORE Summer 2015 Fellows Support Community Land Trusts in Chinatown and Roxbury