National Land Bank and Land Trust Map

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.

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 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.

Land trusts across the U.S. are providing benefits to birds. The Cornell Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative Grant program is now accepting grant proposals through March for 14 land trust projects.

The federal government offers many programs that can provide financial resources to land trusts to conserve wildlife on the land that they steward. This tool helps land trusts identify federal programs to fund wildlife conservation based on their individual goals.