Community Land Trusts
Subtitle: Building Affordable Housing and Community
By: Avery Dement
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2018
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.?]
Language: eng
Description: Community Land Trusts are a unique affordable housing model predicated on radical community participation and the separation land ownership from housing ownership. This thesis explores the model's applicability in a dense urban context through a case study of the Cooper Square Community Land Trust in New York City. Affordability and community participation are the two fundamental purposes of the model. Through a series of indicators and qualitative interviews, the results found that Cooper Square succeeded in maintaining affordability and including community in the governance structure, but did not succeed in creating a larger sense of community purpose.
Notes: Department: Urban Planning.

Thesis advisor: Kian Y. Tajbakhsh.

Thesis (M.S.)--Columbia University, 2018.