In this episode, we talk with Brenda Torpy who championed a type of affordable land ownership model called a Community Land Trust. She started with the Champlain Housing Trust in Burlington, Vermont in the USA over 35 years ago when she worked in the office of Mayor Bernie Sanders. Today there are now over 260 CLTs in the United States and over 300 in England and Wales. The Champlain Housing Trust is the largest Community Land Trust in the world with 3,000 homes of all types throughout northwestern Vermont serving people experiencing homelessness, homes for people with special needs, affordable apartments for the working class, and a pioneering shared equity home-ownership program that removes financial hurdles for buyers while creating housing that is permanently affordable.
Alicia Maneiro - Cooperative Housing in Uruguay
Paul Bradley (ROC USA) and Kristi Peterman (Liberty Landing Cooperative)
Leasehold Coops
Sumu Yakushima Housing Cooperative -- Japan
Multipro - Nicaragua
Maxime Zaït, Communa, Belgique
Ander Zabala Gomez, Sostre Civic, Catalonia, Spain
Rosie Moore, Peterborough Housing Co-op, New Zealand
Ana Džokić - MOBA - Europe
Chan Hong, Minsnail Housing Co-op, South Korea
Brel Hutton-Okpalaeke NASCO - United States
Emma Liebherr, Co-operative Housing Ireland - Carlow, Ireland
Martin Müller, ABZ Housing Cooperative - Zurich, Switzerland
Sarcee Meadows Housing Co-op and the Women’s Circle - Calgary, Canada
Coopérative d'habitants Chamarel Les Barges, Vaulx en Velin, France
Coop Conversation with Sarah Jensen - Castlegreen Housing Co-op, Thunder Bay, Canada
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