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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy

@groundedclt.bsky.social
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Committed to making affordable housing a reality through Community Land Trusts before 'The Great Australian Dream' becomes an urban myth. #AffordableHousing #CommunityLandTrusts #Australia grounded.org.au linktr.ee/grounded_clts

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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dear @bsky.app , we’d love a button where we could just turn off all American content and only see Australian/ local content thank you
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Government reports still havent accepted this core issue. The way housing is treated has changed forever. Our approach to housing policy must assume that the market has been gamed. #economics #land
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Happy World CLT Day! Today we’re celebrating a powerful idea: land can serve communities, not property speculators. This #worldCLTday, we’re sharing one of our most poignant pieces of work: our WA Land Rent submission grounded.org.au/wa_land_rent... See less
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Karl Fitzgerald @karlfitzgerald.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Capital Gains Tax reform? For a top-bracket investor selling a house, the tax rate on the nominal gain may rise only from about 23.5% to about 26.8%. That is only about 3.3 percentage points higher on the nominal gain. #auspol #AusBudget2026
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Karl Fitzgerald @karlfitzgerald.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The negative gearing reform reduces future tax support for leveraged bets on existing homes. But it does not create permanently affordable housing. It still favours private new builds and BTR over community land stewardship #auspol #AusBudget2026
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
well there you have it!
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The CGT/ NG reform saves $3.6 billion over four years. The residential investment property CGT discount alone costs about $8.5 billion in one year. That tells you how modest this package really is. In a decade it starts to kick in but can we wait? #auspol #ausbudget2026
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Australia didn’t run out of housing. We priced people out with policy. $5.1 Trillion land uplift in a decade. Grounded’s 2026 Pre Budget Submission: CLTs as infrastructure + tax reform + end land banking incentives + STR + algorithm oversight. Read here: sbee.link/-custom-by-source-0-
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Victoria’s Budget must stop treating homes like a wheel of quick cash. Grounded’s submission argues for a system architecture for scalable affordability, money put into homes that stay affordable forever, not demand side payments that inflate prices. Read here: bit.ly/vbs26
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Vacant land shouldn’t be a tax haven for hoarders, it should house people. We can activate idle sites with time limited land tax relief that pays out only when tiny homes are delivered and occupied. Bees get tax breaks. Tiny homes should too. Read our plan → bit.ly/vbs26
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
ABS: Australia’s fertility rate is record low - unaffordable housing is forcing couples to forgo kids. First home buyers reach 12% of the market; prices: NSW 40%, VIC 20%, QLD/SA 80%. Include CLTs in a national fertility strategy that cut costs by 39% and keep homes near schools, jobs & transport.
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This Christmas, don’t just wish for affordable housing - find the pathway. Our Resource Hub brings together the evidence and tools to act; in depth research; submissions to Help to Buy, Build to Rent; webinars and a suite of toolkits. Host a community event to turn support into local organising.
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The National AI Plan launched this week completely ignores the role of AI in further entrenching the advantages property investors have over society. We must protect our communities! Let's govern housing trading like we do sharemarket trading.
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The National AI Plan launched this week completely ignores the role of AI in further entrenching the advantages property investors have over society. We must protect our communities! Let's govern housing trading like we do sharemarket trading.
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Community Land Trusts are the stewardship vehicle we need to change the property fetish causing so much pain
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The extent of market failure across the economy is such that the Australian charity sector is bigger than the construction sector (ACNC Charities report 2025). But ATO rules block charities like ours from attaining tax deductible funding. That's why we are passionate about this campaign
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Unlock DGR – Justice Connect
An incoherent DGR system is locking thousands of charities out of vital funding. Together, we can unlock opportunity, giving, and community impact.
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Has the privatisation of property data created a material advantage for investors — an information asymmetry that looks a lot like insider trading? It’s time regulators treated #housing data like the financial infrastructure it has become. Then we have a chance to protect our communities.
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Owning the Future Before it Arrives
How AI Turns Property Data into Insider Advantage
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
After the fires, Lahaina refused to be displaced. They built the Lahaina Community Land Trust, a model of community-led recovery rooted in trust, aloha ʻāina (love for the land), and housing justice. #CommunityLandTrusts ➡️ shelterforce.org/2025/10/08/h...
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Harnessing the Shock of Disaster to Propel Change
Sometimes disasters open a space for bigger and faster positive change. In Lahaina, Hawai'i, after the devastating fires in 2023, community leaders built on preexisting relationships to approach housi...
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A Community Land Trust (CLTs) resident can save ⭐ $153,000 over 12 years ⭐ compared to the market. ✅ That’s money for education, health, and security—not lost to inflated mortgages and land speculation. Ready for a better way? 🔗 sbee.link/nwr3g7mfdt #housing #affordablehousing
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Australia privatised its land registries. Public maps became private tolls. Community Land Trusts can reset the map toward fairer cities. Read here → grounded.org.au/the-map-was...
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Our submission on Help to Buy is in. Biggest concerns? *Inflated prices *Hidden fiscal costs *No perpetual affordability 💡 Shared equity could work better. Tie it to Community Land Trusts → permanent affordability, real public benefit: sbee.link/6phagtynb8 #HousingCrisis #HelpToBuy
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Submission: Help to Buy Regulations 2025 - Grounded
Grounded has made a submission on the proposed Help to Buy regulations. While we welcome stronger consumer protections, the scheme risks inflating housing prices, obscuring real costs, and missing the chance to deliver permanent affordability.
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
“A CLT can say we want to shield this land to ensure that locals come first and from that we’ll be able to provide housing for the nurses and teachers and doctors who we need,” - Karl Fitzgerald #communitylandtrusts #housingjustice #affordablehousing
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The housing market isn’t “natural ”, it’s coded 🤖 google maps to rent-bots, algorithms are driving scarcity and rent hikes with cartel-like precision. But it doesn’t have to remain dystopian. Technology can be used for justice 👉 karlfitzgerald.substack.com/p/the-code-i...
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The Code is the Cartel
How software turned scarcity into strategy, and neighborhoods into numbers.
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Airbnb and other short-stay rentals are draining supply from regional housing markets. Grounded’s Karl Fitzgerald says it’s time for a licensing system that caps growth and reinvests profits into long-term affordability through Community Land Trusts 👉 sbee.link/-custom-by-source-0-
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Adelaide overtakes Sydney as the toughest market for first home buyers
Housing affordability remains around record lows, despite recent rate cuts, but it is not stopping an above-average number of first-time buyers from entering the market, according to a new report.
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Your rent was set by a bot 🤖 Algorithms are already driving rents and speculation in housing, but policymakers are years behind. Read our new piece and subscribe to ⭐ The Algorithm That Ate My Neighbourhood ⭐ karlfitzgerald.substack.com/p/your-rent-... #proptech #housing
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Your Rent Was Set by a Bot
Inside the AI-powered logic setting rents, optimising yields—and eating communities. Your postcode is now a probability curve, not a place.
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Land belongs to community, not the market. This #NAIDOC2025 🖤💛❤️ we’re reflecting on how Community Land Trusts (CLTs) can be part of restoring land justice and housing security on unceded Aboriginal lands. Read 🔗 grounded.org.au/from-dispos... #NAIDOC2025 #LandBack #HousingJustice
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From Dispossession to Possibility: Why Land Belongs to Community - Grounded
This NAIDOC Week, as we honour the strength and survival of First Nations communities and celebrate The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy, let’s also imagine a housing future that begins with Country, not capital. One where land isn’t someth
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
1 week to go!🏡 What if we owned the housing solution? Join the convo on CLTs, homes that stay affordable + communities in control. 🗓️ Wed 16 July, 6PM📍 Castlemaine or Livestream 🎟️ RSVP: sbee.link/jdpe7vnbuq #HousingJustice #CLTs #Castlemaine #Grounded
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
📣 EVENT ✨ What If We Owned the Housing Solution? ✨ WEDNESDAY 16 JULY 💚 Join us for a community conversation about how we can reclaim housing from a system that has failed us. From ‘me’ to ‘we’, it’s time to bring housing home REGISTER NOW: sbee.link/wptqbgcrnj #housingjustice
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EVENT: What if We Owned the Housing Solution! - Grounded
Join us for a community conversation about how we can reclaim housing from a system that has failed us.
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Charities now employ more Australians than construction and manufacturing. If this doesn’t show how much the market system relies on patch-ups, what does? Read the full report 👉 sbee.link/da7vtmbqfw  #Charity  #CharitySector #Australia #AusPol
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🚨 48% of income now goes to mortgage repayments ⁉️ We are 60% over the housing stress benchmark If any other system failed this badly, we’d overhaul it! It's time to✨decommodify housing✨and back real solutions like #CommunityLandTrusts 🏘️ JOIN US 👉https://sbee.link/bqpxnu63wd
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
On 30th June, we host an event with Michael Hudson, Steve Keen and Hannah Appel. They will discuss Debt, Empire and the future. The event will be streamed live on our Youtube page. Come along! www.youtube.com/live/FAgj66z...
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Michael Hudson in conversation with Steve Keen & Hannah Appel
Join DGI for a discussion on Debt, Empire, and the Future with Michael Hudson, Professor Steve Keen and Hannah Appel, from UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. David Graeber insisted t...
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
At Grounded, we believe that land and housing should serve people, not profit. Community Land Trusts (CLTs) offer a real alternative 🏘️ Let’s build a future where communities - not speculators - own the land beneath their feet 🔗https://sbee.link/v6nq9bwret
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
What exactly is World CLT Day? 🤔 #WorldCLTDay2025 aims to celebrate, promote, and amplify the global #CommunityLandTrust (CLT) movement. It is a chance to spotlight our diverse CLT community and celebrate affordable housing, land justice, and community empowerment 💚 worldcltday.org
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
💚 Community land trusts (CLTs) anchor communities by nurturing well-being, stability, and belonging. 💚 Join the Australian Community Land Trust Network on #WorldCLTDay2025 this Friday 16 May for their webinar on 'Communities of Practice' 🔗 sbee.link/6apcvdwu8x
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
💚 Senator Bernie Sanders is a long-time supporter of #communitylandtrusts (CLT) and shares this message to kick off World CLT Day Week! 🫶 Join us this week in celebrating 🥳 #WorldCLTDay2025 #BernieSanders 🔗 sbee.link/x8fwgyqnvr
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently.” - David Graeber. Property Collectives article discusses the need for more community led, for-purpose housing 🔗 sbee.link/pdy8nu9grb
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🎉 Celebrate #WorldCLTDay2025 celebrating Community Land Trusts (CLTs) with us on 16 May 🌱 CLTs are more than just housing—they're about cultivating vibrant, stable communities 🏘️ Want to know more 👉 Find out more worldcltday.org/
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
At Grounded we are elated to see a Dutton-free government 👏👏👏👏👏👏 ... however, our advocacy continues as we continue to pressure the ‘new’ ALP government in delivering on REAL affordable housing 🏘️ sbee.link/w8mkda4rq9
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What is a CLT? - Grounded
What is a CLT? Community Land Trusts are a for-purpose development model focussed on key community needs. A CLT embeds perpetual affordability, sustainability and land stewardship into its core purpose. The CLT uses a carefully-calculated, capped res
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🏡 Regional Vic needs more than empty promises! #CommunityLandTrusts = ✅ 60% lower deposits ✅ 39% lifetime savings, Communities NOT land bankers 🏘️ Let's flip the housing game - read the Grounded submission 🔗 sbee.link/3byt6rucge #RegionalHousing #ForPurposeHousing
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Grounded Submission: Regional Affordable Innovation in Victoria - Grounded
Submission: Inquiry into the supply of homes in regional Victoria  We understand the Victorian government’s preference for township development, but we are concerned that this rewards land bankers sur...
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A Community Land Trust (CLTs) resident can save ⭐ $153,000 over 12 years ⭐ compared to the market. ✅ That’s money for education, health, and security—not lost to inflated mortgages and land speculation. Ready for a better way? 🔗 sbee.link/c9vn3bwe6a #housing #affordablehousing
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🚨 Public land is being sold to the highest bidder. What if we used it for public good instead? We’re calling on government to allocate surplus public land to #CommunityLandTrusts (CLTs) to grow 🌱#affordablehousing that lasts. Let’s build homes, not portfolios! #auspol
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Federal housing policy needs a serious renovation 🏘️ Check out our top-line federal recommendations to build a legacy of perpetual affordability 🔗 sbee.link/xydw3mvkun #CommunityLandTrusts #Housing #AffordableHousing #AusPol
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
✨ #CommunityLandTrusts reduce deposit barriers by up to 60% for a typical home ✨ Want to know more⁉️ Check our new report on Community Land Trusts 🔗 sbee.link/9a6vcrgedt #Housing #AffordableHousing
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Download Grounded in Affordability Report - Grounded
Join us on Wednesday 2 April 2025 for the launch of our new report 'Grounded in Affordability: The Economic Case for Community Land Trusts'.
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
That chocolate bunny 🍫🐇 might not last the weekend—but #CommunityLandTrust (CLTs) affordability–that’s forever 💸 🏘️ This #Easter 🐣 learn how CLTs offer lasting solutions, not sugar-hit policies. Dive into the data (no sugar crash) 👉 sbee.link/6qmkbjw9ch
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A 20-home #CommunityLandTrust development can pump $308,000 a year into the local economy. That’s money that goes back into the local economy 🌱🏘️ Affordable housing = thriving community. 📘 Read the full report 👉 sbee.link/9m3xjubw67 #Housing #AffordableHousing
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
✨ What if we told you there’s a model that can cut housing costs by up to 39% - and it already exists? 🧠 Dive into the economics of #CommunityLandTrusts (CLTs) that saves buyers & communities 📖 Read the report 🔗 sbee.link/jhdgrxb49u #Housing #AffordableHousing
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Across Hawai‘i, #CommunityLandTrusts (CLTs) are reclaiming land and shifting the narrative—from housing as a commodity to housing as care @overstoryhawaii.bsky.social 👉 sbee.link/mrkacxjuv7 #HousingJustice #CLTs #Hawaii #Lahaina #CollectiveStewardship
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Community Land Trusts Are on the Rise in Hawai‘i - Overstory
The growing network of community land trusts seek to provide permanently affordable homes for Hawai‘i’s people—and redefine the narrative on housing in paradise to emphasize collective, rather than individual, wellbeing.
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If instead of Help to Buy, the Albanese Government channelled the $6.3 billion towards Community Land Trusts, it could provide the land and development funding for 18,000 homes. This would deliver $91 million in revenue by the fourth year sbee.link/4pubneg9dw
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Housing reform that pays for itself – and helps future generations
Tinkering around the edges isn’t helping. We need to reverse the commodification of housing with a model that puts people first.
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Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy @groundedclt.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
🟢 #CommunityLandTrusts are a solution to affordable housing 🟢 #ChangeMyMind 😏 We’re done pretending the market will fix itself. CLTs keep homes affordable forever, not just for the first buyer. 📢 Read the Grounded in Affordability report 🔗 sbee.link/fmvcahewux
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