Community Land Trusts are an effective tool for preventing the spread of gentrification in communities vulnerable to displacement. As a preventative measure they can strengthen community bonds, stabilize communities suffering from disinvestment, and maintain racial/cultural diversity in each area. Without specific tools and municipal support though, they can fail to grow to the extent needed for staving off gentrification.
Communities across the United States have been faced with the looming threat of gentrification’s seemingly unstoppable power. The omen of displacement that is the local coffee shop or craft brewery has increasingly become a real threat to disinvested communities. As these neighborhoods grow increasingly needy of a way to fight back against the gentrification that can so rapidly consume their communities.