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Large-scale CLT implementation can counter displacement pressures linked to gentrification by preserving a stock of high-quality affordability as real-estate values rise. 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Large-scale implementation of the CLT model can buffer the adverse effects of displacement through gentrification, by ensuring that a lasting stock of high-quality, affordable housing remains in place even when new investments create a market-driven increase in real estate values. When CLTs control a sufficient percentage of housing in areas that are high-cost or where housing costs are rising, the neighborhood can achieve mixed-income status. This has potential to enrich residents’ lives across all income levels through diverse interconnectedness and opportunities for betterment.2  \nHowever, research continues to reveal just how challenging it is for mixed-income communities to produce benefits for lower-income people of color. Too often, communities of color that experience new investments, accompanied by an influx of more affluent and often predominately white households, report that the changes work to the benefit of the higherincome white households and the detriment of lower-income households of color. Residents of color can experience social and cultural alienation and a loss of political influence, which are often expressed in sentiments such as,“This is no longer my neighborhood.” The CLT model attempts to address both the perception and the reality of these shifts in power and culture by placing the residents of homes on the CLT’s land in key leadership and decision making positions and by putting the needs of low-income residents at the center of the CLT’s mission.  \nA major debate among CLT practitioners and advocates involves the tradeoffs and tensions between “going to scale” with the housing portfolio and enacting “community control.”People on one side of this debate make the case that increasing the number of homes held in trust is necessary, both for CLTs’ financial sustainability and for the production and preservation of mixed-income communities. The other side argues that ever-increasing scale may inevitably  \n1 This essay appears in Mark L. Joseph and Amy T. Khare, eds., What Works to Promote Inclusive, Equitable Mixed-Income Communities, please visit the volume website for access to more essays.  \n2 Robert J. Chaskin and Mark L. Joseph, Integrating the Inner City: The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015) .  \nerode the community’s and local residents’ control in decision making—a vital part of the CLT governance model.  \nIn this essay, we suggest that pitting the straw men of scale and community control against one another does the field more harm than good. Instead, we support a theory of change that reconciles and balances the two goals in order to create more comprehensive CLT-based approaches that advance racial justice and inclusive community development. But first, we explain the CLT model and its challenges.  \nAffordable Housing in Mixed-Income Communities Done Differently: The CLT Model  \nUnfortunately, the majority of new affordable housing developed in urban areas follows an ill-fated pattern 3 : Public funds are invested to improve disinvested communities, address poor housing conditions, and create high-quality affordable housing options. Improvements to the affordable housing stock often spur additional private real estate investments within the same area. The neighborhood is considered to be “revitalizing”—an unmanaged process that may slowly or quickly turn into gentrification. Higher property values drive up rents and property taxes, which attracts higher-income households and more private investment. This begins to push out lower-income households. Additional displacement pressure o","cbCait75eYPwleOB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait75eYPwleOB","pdf",872659,"English","# Community land trusts and mixed-income affordability\n## How CLTs counter displacement and support mixed-income status\n# Challenges for lower-income communities of color\n## Power shifts, alienation, and political influence\n# Scale versus community control\n## Debate among practitioners and advocates\n# Affordable housing patterns and unintended segregation\n## Revitalization, gentrification, and expiring affordability\n# How the CLT model works\n## Ground lease and long-term affordability in perpetuity\n# CLTs and community control in displacement frameworks\n## Political displacement and resident voice","[{\"question\":\"How do community land trusts (CLTs) promote permanently affordable housing?\",\"answer\":\"CLTs acquire land and keep housing affordable in perpetuity by using a renewable ground lease (typically 99 years) and ensuring affordable units remain affordable over time.\"},{\"question\":\"Why can mixed-income communities fail to benefit lower-income people of color?\",\"answer\":\"Research shows new investment often brings affluent, frequently white households, which can benefit higher-income residents while harming lower-income households of color through social/cultural alienation and reduced political influence.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the central debate in CLT practice: scale or community control?\",\"answer\":\"Practitioners debate tradeoffs between increasing the number of homes in trust for financial sustainability and potentially weakening local residents’ control over decision-making, which is core to CLT governance.\"}]","Community Land Trusts - Combining Scale and Community Control to Advance Mixed-Income Neighborhoods 1 | PDF"]