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La Vivienda representa más que un techo bajo el cual vivir. La vivienda digna es necesaria para el ejercicio de derechos fundamentales como la salud y la educación. Atado a la vivienda está el tema de la tenencia de la tierra. Millones de personas a la altura del siglo 21 viven en asentamientos informales y carecen de vivienda digna. Este libro explora el crecimiento global de los fideicomisos comunitarios de tierra y cómo esta forma de tenencia colectiva de la tierra y vivienda asequible a perpetuidad ha provisto hogares dignos para familias de ingresos bajos y moderados. Veintiséis ensayos de autores de una docena de países evidencian tal crecimiento y la participación de las comunidades para que los fideicomisos respondan a sus necesidades específicas. Land that is owned and managed for the common good is a hallmark of community land trusts. CLTs are locally controlled, nonprofit organizations that steward permanently affordable housing (and other assets) for people of modest means. This book explores the global growth of CLTs in twenty-six original essays by authors from a dozen countries.

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""Overall, the editors masterfully compile original essays into a persuasive argument for solving the international land rights and housing crisis. On Common Ground resoundingly demonstrates the transformative possibilities that CLTs can produce across the globe when community organizing, operation, and ownership of land connects and expands. Given the target audience includes those working in housing and community development, community organizing, and policy analysis, positions many planners hold or engage, I highly recommend this book to planning professionals and academicians alike."" -Journal of the American Planning Association ""An essential read for those interested in addressing the affordable housing crisis, which will continue to be exacerbated by the negative economic impacts of COVID-19. Due to a long and painful history of institutional racism and the lack of responsive action by many elected leaders, home ownership and quality rental housing have historically been denied to persons of color. The book examines the growth of the community land trust (CLT) model and how it has adapted in urban and rural environments, offering readers a thoughtful and empathetic overview of how to start and scale a CLT to ensure that affordable housing incorporates its residents. The book leaves readers with a sense of hope for the future and practical ways in which this model can be built and sustained."" -Robert Burns, Board President, Grounded Solutions Network ""Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects threaten to exacerbate already severe inequities, especially with regards to the ownership, access, and control of land and housing. In the United States, as eviction moratoriums in many states and localities come to an end and jobs remain scarce, experts are predicting a possibly unprecedented wave of displacement and homelessness. Against this bleak backdrop, a new book offers a ray of hope. On Common Ground, edited by John Emmeus Davis, Line Algoed, and María Hernández-Torrales, documents how interest in one of the more exciting new economic models to emerge in recent decades, the Community Land Trust (CLT), is spreading around the world."" -Thomas Hanna, Research Director, Democracy Collaborative

An essential read for those interested in addressing the affordable housing crisis. . . . The book examines the growth of the community land trust (CLT) model and how it has adapted in urban and rural environments, offering readers a thoughtful and empathetic overview of how to start and scale a CLT to ensure that affordable housing incorporates its residents. The book leaves readers with a sense of hope for the future. --Robert Burns, Senior Vice President, CitiBank and Board President, Grounded Solutions Network

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El Dr. John Emmeus Davis es socio fundador de Burlington Associates in Community Development, una cooperativa de consultoría nacional. Fue director de vivienda en Burlington, Vermont bajo el mandato de los alcaldes Bernie Sanders y Peter Clavelle. Los fideicomisos comunitarios de tierras han sido parte importante de su práctica profesional y de sus publicaciones académicas durante casi cuarenta años. Entre estas se encuentran ""Contested Ground"" (1991), ""The Affordable City"" (1994), ""The City-CLT Partnership"" (2008), ""The Community Land Trust Reader"" (2010) y ""Manuel d'antispéculation immobilière"" (2014). También coprodujo la película ""Arc of Justice"" y es codirector del Center for CLT Innovation. Tiene una maestría en Ciencias y un doctorado de Cornell University. John Emmeus Davis is a founding partner of Burlington Associates in Community Development, a national consulting cooperative in the USA. He holds an MS and PhD from Cornell University and has taught housing policy and neighborhood planning at New Hampshire College, the University of Vermont, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served for ten years as the city's housing director in Burlington, Vermont under Mayors Bernie Sanders and Peter Clavelle. Community land trusts (CLTs) have been a prominent part of his professional practice and scholarly writing for 40 years. In addition to publishing a number of books and articles about CLTs, he was a co-producer for the documentary film, Arc of Justice. He is a co-director of the Center for CLT Innovation. (See also: https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Emmeus_Davis) Line Algoed se desempeña como investigadora doctoral en Cosmopolis, el Centro de Investigación Urbana de la Universidad Libre de Bruselas, y como investigadora asociada en el Instituto Internacional de Estudios Sociales de La Haya. Trabaja con el Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña en intercambios internacionales entre comunidades que luchan por sus derechos sobre la tierra. Es codirectora del Center for CLT Innovation. Anteriormente, Line fue gerente del programa de Premios Mundiales del Hábitat de la Building and Social Housing Foundation (ahora World Habitat). Tiene una maestría en Antropología Cultural de la Universidad de Leiden y una maestría en Sociología de la London School of Economics. Line Algoed is a PhD researcher at Cosmopolis, Center for Urban Research at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels and a Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. She works with the Caño Martín Peña CLT in Puerto Rico on international exchanges among communities involved in land struggles. She is also an Associate at the Center for CLT Innovation. Previously, Line was a World Habitat Awards Program Manager at BSHF (now World Habitat). She holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Leiden and an MA in Sociology from the London School of Economics. La Lcda. María E. Hernández Torrales tiene una maestría en Derecho Ambiental de la Escuela de Derecho de Vermont y una maestría en Educación Empresarial de la Universidad de Nueva York. Estudió su bachillerato y grado de Juris Doctor en la Universidad de Puerto Rico. Desde 2005, Hernández-Torrales ha hecho trabajo legal pro bono para el Proyecto ENLACE y para el Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña. Y desde 2008, ha trabajado como abogada y profesora clínica de la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, donde enseña la Clínica de Desarrollo Económico Comunitario. María E. Hernández-Torrales holds an LLM in environmental law from the Vermont Law School and an MA in Business Education from New York University. She studied for her undergraduate and Juris Doctor degrees at the University of Puerto Rico. Since 2005 she has been doing pro bono legal work for the Proyecto ENLACE and for the Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña. Since 2008, Hernández-Torrales has worked as an attorney and clinical professor at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law where she teaches the Community Economic Development Clinic.

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