This webinar was hosted by the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts on August 6 2020.

This webinar explores the Origins and Evolution of Urban Community Land Trusts in Canada, through the stories of community leaders across the country.

This webinar was organized by the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts as the Canadian Book Launch of On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust, a collection of twenty-six original essays, written by forty-two scholars and practitioners from a dozen countries, tracing the growth and diversification of the international community land trust movement. This exciting new international reader, includes an essay on the Origins and Evolution of Urban Community Land Trusts in Canada, co-written by Susannah Bunce and Joshua Barndt.

This will tell the story of the evolution of Community Land Trust development in Canada through presentations by key CLT leaders from across Canada.

Speakers:

  • Tiffany Duzita – The Community Land Trust (Vancouver)
  • Stephanie Allen – Hogans Alley Society (Vancouver)
  • Dimitri Roussopoulos – La Communauté Milton Parc (Montreal)
  • Tom Clement – Cooperative Housing Federation of Toronto & Cooperative Housing Land Trusts (Toronto)
  • Teresa Portillo – Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust (Toronto)
  • Melissa Estable – Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada International Guest
  • John Emmeus Davis – Centre for Community Land Innovation (Burlington Vermont, US)

Hosts:

  • Joshua Barndt – Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust (Toronto)
  • Susannah Bunce – University of Toronto