Community Land Trusts: Can they be an answer to the housing crisis?
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2023
- Conversations about how to fix Canada's housing crisis often focus on one idea: the accelerated building of more affordable units.
But, in the absence of a coordinated response to housing shortages and rising rents, communities - big and small - are taking matters into their own hands. Local organizers have created Community Land Trusts (CLTs), non-profits that buy up land within a given neighbourhood and keep it affordable and accessible for everyone in the community - indefinitely.
This model gives stability to longtime renters, especially in areas facing the threat of displacement, gentrification and “renoviction.”
For The New Reality, Krista Hessey introduces us to the people leading the charge on CLTs in Canada - both inside and outside of big cities.
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During covid, all news channels in the west coast perpetuated racial tensions and advertising against a certain ethnicity as a scapegoat for all government made problems. To the lady advocating at 8:49, personally I can understand your real passion for community, however if you talk to anyone off the record in finance or law, the government and the bank system in Canada are built to generate profit and taxes legally regardless of the virtuous national image being projected. Please be careful when speaking to news outlets as you may one day wake up to be villainized due to misinformation and identity politics, if you don’t believe me, look at 14:37 in this video. From newcomers paying government taxes, to citizens paying high mortgages, to lawyers suing those speaking their mind, the system is designed this way. The key solution to housing needs to come from major reforms by the profit seeking government itself, while broadening financial literacy to the public, something that runs against mainstream media and special interest giants & conglomerates. With the current trend, social tensions and wealth inequality are projected to rise, self-educate in financial literacy asap!
There is something wrong with Canada, so much land and wealth should be enough to provide homes to everyone.
Just like their socialist medical systems?
It’s climate change man.
What's wrong is Trudeau is destroying Canada
Settlements are established where there exists the means (economy or economic potential) to sustain them, and Canadians are a soft ppl who are, more or less, totally reliant on modern supply chains and logistics.
We can’t just put up a bunch of houses in the middle of nowhere, inevitably for those on lower incomes, and then expect them to waste half their income on fuel, commuting 2-4 hours each day.
Maybe we can solve a tiny fraction of the problem w far-flung boutique communities for the well-to-do remote ‘workers’ w StarLink and such, but we wouldn’t even feel the difference.
Because the property value is over $1 million dollars, all houses are over 1 million dollars now and most people can't amass 1 million in their entire lifetime. I make $50k a year if I work every day until I die I still won't be able to come up with $1 million dollars even for the crappiest and smallest house on the market!
Look at a map of Canada, then tell me there is no cheap land available. Most of it is called Crown Land, it belongs to the Government.
Yea, sure, pave over the places where so many of us go to get away. Pave over our hunting and camping spots. Sounds like progress to me.
@@firstandforemost87 Calm down, Canada is 10 million SqKM....
@@ReXox35I know, and I have worked in Diamonds, from the North, Forests from Vancouver Island , Potash from Saskatchewan, Nickel from Ontario, Gas from BC, I could go on. I have worked on all these projects across Canada. As an Engineer I have travelled to 23 Countries in developing resources around the world. Oh, and my ancestors are Vikings, who travelled extensively, rape , pillaging and plundering, I had good schooling
@@ReXox35
Then do a little experiment for me and go establish a town in the middle of nowhere. Let me know how easy it is to just centrally plan some thriving towns and villages everywhere.
@@TheRealCartman1
So many ppl repeat the ‘buts lots of land’ argument that I worry we could have some inevitably botched massive federal housing scheme that tries to do something just like this.
socialism or barbarism
Socialism = barbarism.
When a community land trust gets big enough, there will be corruption and politics with in the trust itself. It’s just a different name for organizing ownership of land. The fundamental problems of supply and demand is not addressed with a rebranding.
and likely the same issue of nimbyism, which is where half of the problem lies. government funded co-ops are a much better theoretical solution to creating more housing stock where capitalists won't or can't. the best part about co-ops is they don't even have to be government subsidized once they're built, with a small fee of a few hundred from each tenant, they cover the cost of maintenance themselves. the government could also collect rent from tenants in co-ops to fund more co-op projects.
You bring up a good point, i only just heard of this "community trust" concept and have no idea how it works. But i defiantly can imagine charismatic leaders/ investors crowd funding from poorer residence with a personal goal of enrichment. Not for profit does not mean pro-bono, the organizers pay them selves. How are decisions made with everyone's money? and how are these organizers qualified to lead large construction projects? How is this different from an HOA?
Stopping new construction is not the way to provide affordable housing
stopping new construction where people feel it shouldn't be happening, creates the needed incentive to push the construction to where it should be happening. CLTs also do allow for the creation of new construction if they decide to initiate it themselves within the organization. Private firms can approach them at any time and offer ideas, and work with them to meet the CLT demands as to what the community accepts.
@@ryanfitzalan8634 still not helping, build more houses period.
Cool… more gate keepers
That's the core of Canadas power structure.
@@FreshLyte
Inherited from the UK.
The journalist(s) who made this did an excellent job. Thank you!
This seems like the total opposite of the way that Tokyo has managed to make housing affordable. There you can build just about anything anywhere, and buildings are often taken down and replaced after only a handful of decades. Of course, in Japan you don't see the same desire to stop demographic change in an area.
I wonder what will happen in these communities as they age. Will there be enough money to maintain the properties? With low rents and reliance on donations, it could be hard to keep these places safe and livable after a couple decades. What if the group of people you are preserving the neighborhood for starts to leave? Conversely, will you end up with enough economic integration between social classes? Zurich has a ton of social housing, but it is open to people of all income levels, keeping neighborhoods from becoming islands of poverty.
Why the hell is this show being cancelled? This is very important reporting.
Money 💴
It's made by Communists.
CLTs for the win! Power to the people! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
This is what the Bolsheviks and Maoist said too.....that went well.🤨
CLTs do not create more housing (increasing supply, lowering prices) simply because there’s no money in it. It merely provides a lottery ticket for those already living in the buildings.
Forget about increasing supply, what about having enough money to maintain the buildings they buy? With stagnant revenue not able to keep up with increasing costs, how can’t they keep up with maintenance (and deferred maintenance)?
And how would u like to be part of the solution instead of the problem?
This has been a big thing before... not really a "new idea"...But funding from Gov't has been cut..
There needs to be a progressive model of CLT and residential ownership. CLT buys and portion of rent payments goes toward ownership and equity and the loan repayment.
Canadian citizens live in tents in parks, while illegal aliens live in hotel rooms in Niagara Falls, paid for by the taxpayer. Why Canadians simply sit back and tolerate this situation boggles the mind.
Was it always like this? Seriosuly this is getting worse like every day
They are guests of Trudeau
Because we have no time to listen to Americans advising us what to do? You literally have what 20M undocumented immigrants? Please start fixing your own country first.We're at least aware if our problems.
@@dvsmapple
Yet you have no problem advising Americans what to do. Hypocritical much?
Eby of the NDP wants Municipalities to Fast track Building lots more homes and bypass the Public Hearing process, which can only on occasions be slow. He has set Quotas they must follow. A new bill was introduced you must follow.
They want to increase the Density of how you live, More Apartments, Houses stuck close to each other, and no idea of what extra schools or Hospitals, Doctors and Nurses required., and what supporting infrastructure required. He is a Lawyer I’m a an Engineer and a Senior Planner/ Cost Controller.
Who has more experience, a blood sucking Lawyer or Someone with more than 30 years of experience..
No. Community Land Trust is all over Vancouver and most their neighbours get frustrated with the tenants because there are no proper expectations management, by-laws and rules are not followed and even disrespect to the property in the neighbourhood because they are not vested and pay property taxes. CLT is not experienced with managing these buildings. I understand the tenants don’t pay strata fees so it is difficult to raise funds to properly maintain the buildings. Too much politics involved and building eventually deteriorates. The answer is to have tenants vested somehow (rent to own) and care about the building instead of a set a mind that they don’t own so they don’t care but expects a lot from renting, low rent but high expectations. That said, there are real people that need help but what I observed are the opportunists who don’t need help play the game to rent these buildings. My friend went to use a co-op car and in the CLT buildings are new cars and even Mercedes Benz. I own a property because I don’t buy expensive things, I drive an old car. PRIORITIES PRIORITIES! Why should the working class property owners pay for CLT or donate? Then there are people that should be in hospital because they are dangerous to the community- open up the hospital. There have been so many random stabbings in Vancouver it doesn’t not feel like a safe place. A seal was brutally dragged out last week from False Creek and brutally killed, geese were beheaded and seagulls were killed. My family are immigrants from a war 40 years ago and we worked 3 jobs and never complained, got us out of poverty. So NO to CLT as a solution because they do not know to how manage who really needs the low rent or not and weed out the opportunists who don’t really need help. Yes to a strategy where tenants to eventually own something even a % of something so are vested and be accountable.
Problems:
1. Immigration
2. Short term rentals
3. Investors
4. The Governments
5. Corruption
Problems Solve:
Get Rid of them all at one
Short term- rentals are the consequence of government making long-term rentals unviable.
100 %
This affordable housing issue needs the Federal, Provincal and City work together to sole it permanently. Like in Singapore and Hong Kong, a large portion of the population live in government organized, financially assisted housing model that city/government work with private developers to build apartments/condos which offers rental units and units sold for substantial lower than privately build buildings. But I guess no politicians are interested in this. We got to think outside the box and learn from cities that had successfully employed this model for the past 50 years to solve this affordable issue for the mass!?$
Bad comparison as Singapore and Hong Kong are city-states with no more land to build on while Canada has plenty despite 89% of it being Crown-owned. Plus, Hong Kong has the world's highest rent.
@@shauncameron8390 why waste arable land on sprawling suburbs? build up.
So the government supplies the funds to purchase these properties. Does the government get to place mandates on the residents ? Once the government backed land trusts own all the properties won't it just be another form of public housing ? Do these residents have the option to purchase their home or are they expected to own nothing and be happy ?
There is a great issue in Canada and its the slowly dismantling of Canadian missing middle housing and affordable home that once many of its thriving communities once had. This has been replaced with horrible American suburbian ideas that have not only abolished missing middle housing for the middle class but practically made Canadian housing unaffordable for many, and small business don't have that mix retail formula that was available. This need to come back to bring back thriving communities. Community land trust are a good way to do this but more needs to be done
What's being dismantled is the Canadian middle class.
There are three groups of people now in Canadian society: poor renters, wealthy land owners, and the homeless.
WHY ?
#1
"We know the private market is not providing housing to everyone" aaaaand you've already lost me.
Government intervention in the form of zoning and property taxation is not providing housing to everyone. This problem is due to the LACK of a free market for developing housing stock.
We all know it you can see all the young homeless people coming around
No, those are young homeless drug addicts.
This is sad
This is basically another name for Public Housing
It is not. Community Land Trusts are specifically private non-profit corporations that are run democratically by the people who choose to become members. The housing a CLT may or may not own is more analogous to non-market housing than it is to public housing. It is NOT owned by non-members of the CLT. The CLT can also choose to use the land it owns for anything that benefits the community, like gardens, commercial buildings, etc.
3:52 the question is where does the money come from to buy these properties, the answer is very interesting. He states the first place they look for funding is the community residents that want to support the work, and since this typically takes place in poorer areas i would guess there isnt much money to go around. Then the foundations come in and aren't named which is concerning. then he clearly states government funding and what is government funding? Public funding. And if the Public is Funding the building of housing then it becomes Public Housing. This is in no way Private and will never work because in Private owner ship if you buy a house and your neighbours despise you too bad for them they cant vote you out of your home or evict you. In Community Housing/ Public Housing you have no say. @@aspenshadow7920
When I become homeless in Edmonton I will organize the dispossessed and we will occupy the Legislature. Just as I did as a child farm laborer working for my father who was an NFU Farmer. I remember drinking hot chocolate in a large tent on the Legislature Gardens in the middle of winter. There were Ukrainian Canadian Communist farmers amongst them..Not one single Nazi that I know of.. The Nazis were busting unions and preparing their children take power in Ottawa and elsewhere.
Government can still do Eminent Domain 🤣🥃🔥
Great documentary! Good job. Is the interviewer, Sarah Polley’s daughter? Spitting image.
Sounds like socialism
Just look at the guy they're interviewing.
This is what years of failed government policies get you.
how can it be socialism? Government isnt even involved
CLTs are great ideas, but it should be noted that they are an indicator species. The fact that our already democratic governments, with already different levels of governance, cannot function to accomplish regulation to properly defend in some places while incentivizing in others, just shows how dysfunctional our present state systems currently are. That should be concerning to us.
Canadians first.
Well you could buy a used RV camper or trailer for less than a months rent then buy an acre of land in the country to live on ....... Just an option
This is what Canada under liberal-NDP coalition looks like. Hippy communes....
Sounds like nimbiasm to me
Nope it's pushing back Communism.
If we want affordable housing, we need MORE housing. I understand the need to protect certain areas of historical importance, but this approach won't fix the broader problem of housing affordability. I could see the value if a CLT finances the development of a multi-storey apartment building that is designed in a way that benefits the community, and not just a developer.
I don't think people want more "rental" solutions. People want ownership solutions. CLT just seems like a not for profit developer. And as anyone who looks into "not for profit" organizations... they very much make profit. Canada needs starter homes. Like we had post WW2. Work, earn, save, deploy those earnings into real estate. Have a property that is yours and grow from there or stay as is. Choice is yours. But at least you own something and are truly part of the community. No ownership... no community.
You could always house more people on the Native reservations. I'm sure they'll LOVE that.... O_o
*You will own NOTHING.. and you WONT be happy.*
Thought of and treated like a passive nation, things are just so incredibly unbalanced due to greed, profit, , it’s mind boggling. Thankfully they can’t hide it for long. Embarrassing to watch Canada try to maintain its facade.
Great work!
What's your real problem?
What more did you expect from a country that was all too happy to live off of Britain and American largesse?
I'm profoundly touched by your video! _ "Success is the outcome of unceasing effort."
One lesson in life: NEVER listen to a guy wearing an adjustable beanie. Your welcome.
You still sitting outside playgrounds with binoculars, huh?
@@verbalspaghettigaming7570 you would know all about that scenario. Does it remind you of how you lost your virginity or something?
we have to be brutally honest, the flood of people coming from Indian is a disaster for the Canadian rental market. It has to stop, fully stop, we cannot support all these new people. A crisis will turn into a national issue soon, too many new people are coming.
You are absolutely right!
Down Valley Community rent bank is a jock. They caused I loos my apartment because they are not competent and they don't tell you the truth.
33 Davisville RPMS manegment, Miss Nina lies that reply to community rent bank. The RPMS head office, who responded over the phone to my situation; Mr Mohammed or Masoad said, "we paid a lot to a lawform. I am sorry we can not make financial planning."
Down Valley legal aid in response to my situation that I was lied and fooled by Nina and rent bank said, " Now you learn you can not trust them."
👀 what Trudeau has done to Canada. and 👀 what he does about it. Revolution is coming to 🇨🇦.
A right wing religious revolution? 😂
Doesn't matter Trudeau or whatever, all politicians are corrupt and they all make false promises
@@driftmaniac689
Because corrupt and ignorant people happily believe and vote for them.
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4:08 Goodluck to that, government support? hahahaha especially now that Conservative is leading the election poll. hahahaha
As a transgendered woman I need an affordable home for myself and the five tots I have adopted. We're a family too!
One step closer to a Chinese system
We know about this long time ago, just let you guys know. It's really want to house, you have to have nice money or turn. Immigrant, come on down by a nice house in Canada. Cause that's all it is you go to Toronto. What are you, even Canadians London pockets like literally Ingersoll bro lingersoll bro, let get out of here Canada, get out of Canada, Woodstock, you guys have your own separate town for you guys like your stores, don't speak any English in Canada, like not even French.