Finding Common Ground: Conservation Groups and Affordable Housing Advocates Explore New Collaborations

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.

The Winter 2024 issue of Saving Land discusses why land trusts are pivotal to natural climate solutions, highlights how land trusts and Indigenous peoples can be in better relationship with each other and introduces the new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Framework and Resources for Change.

This workshop will help Colorado land trusts explore tools for engaging diversity, equity, inclusion and justice principles in your conservation approach, including methods for building self-awareness by exploring your individual identity, culture and connections to land and community.

The prospects of the world staying below critical temperature thresholds are diminishing rapidly. It is time to aggressively implement an “all of the above” plan for mitigating climate change, and land trusts are leading the way on a critical strategy: natural climate solutions.

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.

The spring 2024 edition of Saving Land highlights programs for women in land conservation, features land trusts working for dark skies and gives advice for how land trusts can engage younger audiences.

This report details the results of a series of interviews, focus groups and surveys that tracked the experiences of the 12 land trusts in the Keep It Colorado grantee cohort as they acquired and implemented new remote monitoring technologies during the 2020 monitoring season.