At home on the land

Community land trusts primarily focus on land for affordable housing while conservation land trusts focus on using land for ecological purposes. In 2022, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy brought representatives from conservation and community land trusts together to explore collaboration.

The intersection between affordable housing and land conservation is an important and rapidly emerging topic. The purpose of this report is to provide a strong foundation for land trusts to gain literacy in the world of affordable housing, while encouraging cross-movement collaboration.

Join Forrest King-Cortes, Land Trust Alliance, Colin Custer and Raffa Saposhnik, Yale School of the Environment, as they lay out what land trusts need to know about affordable housing and how land trusts can contribute solutions.

Discover where land banks, land banking programs, and CLTs (both community land trusts and conservation land trusts) are located across the U.S. and where they may have shared service areas for potential partnership opportunities.

The summer 2022 issue features stories of how the Alliance has helped land trusts transform over the past 40 years, ways land trusts are facing the challenges of natural disasters and new resources to help land trusts take the plunge into water quality protection projects.

The summer 2014 issue of Saving Land highlights the role of relationships in saving land, features land trusts protecting land through conservation development and explains the power of advocacy.

This issues of Saving Land features how land trusts are cultivating millennial leaders, how land trusts are making the effort to get to know their communities form strong, lasting relationships and more.

Results from the nation's longest-running survey of private land conservation are in. The numbers, and the stories of individual land trusts, show the collective impact of land trusts across the country to protect land and address the needs of their communities.

The fall 2009 issue of Saving Land highlights how tax incentive benefits the entire land trust community, decodes the Farm Bill funding programs and explains how three land trusts are finding out if the land conservation movement could use a major influx of new supporters.

The summer 2007 issue of Exchange (now Saving Land) highlights how New York land trusts quadrupled state funding for themselves, explains what community land trusts are and how they work and features the power of effective communications.