With Rondo Community Land Trust and City of Lakes Community Land Trust

On the front lawn of the East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier St.

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Have you ever wondered what a community land trust is? What about if there are more affordable ways of accessing homeownership? Join Rondo Community Land Trust, City of Lakes Community Land Trust, and East Side Housing Justice for an evening of conversation and film to learn what land trusts are and how they help build community ownership. Community Land trusts have made accessible community stewardship over land and increased economic opportunities for years. Land trusts can help to ensure that land remains affordable.

(Following the conversation will be a screening of the short documentary film Arc of Justice)

“Arc of Justice traces the remarkable story of New Communities, Inc. (NCI), an inspiration for hundreds of community land trusts that have been created across the USA and around the globe. NCI was created in 1969 by leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in southwest Georgia to help secure economic independence for African American families. For fifteen years, NCI cooperatively farmed nearly 6000 acres of land in the face of attacks by local racists and refusals by federal agencies to provide grants or loans. Its land was lost to foreclosure in 1985, but 25 years later NCI was given new life as a result of a successful class action lawsuit brought by hundreds of African American farmers against the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”