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ICYMI 2020: Land Edition
Follow along this thread for a list of stories from 2020 covering #landinequity, the housing crisis, and the forces working to address both.
And reply with your own favorite articles from this past year on land and housing!
Follow along this thread for a list of stories from 2020 covering #landinequity, the housing crisis, and the forces working to address both.
And reply with your own favorite articles from this past year on land and housing!
February 19, 2020: "How to Democratize Housing"
@schlovefest @yesmagazine https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/world-we-want/2020/02/19/affordable-housing-gentrification/
@schlovefest @yesmagazine https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/world-we-want/2020/02/19/affordable-housing-gentrification/
February 24, 2020: "An Enormous Land Transition is Underway. Here’s How to Make it Just."
@NeilThapar @CivilEats @TheSELC https://civileats.com/2020/02/24/an-enormous-land-transition-is-underway-heres-how-to-make-it-just/
@NeilThapar @CivilEats @TheSELC https://civileats.com/2020/02/24/an-enormous-land-transition-is-underway-heres-how-to-make-it-just/
February 26, 2020: "How Community Land Trusts Can Advance Racial and Economic Justice: An Expert Q&A"
@grvelasco_ @Housing360 @Tonypmc @GroundedNetwork https://housingmatters.urban.org/articles/how-community-land-trusts-can-advance-racial-and-economic-justice
@grvelasco_ @Housing360 @Tonypmc @GroundedNetwork https://housingmatters.urban.org/articles/how-community-land-trusts-can-advance-racial-and-economic-justice
April 7, 2020: "BUILDING TRUST: As Texans face the skyrocketing cost of housing, community land trusts offer the promise of permanent affordability. You just have to give up ownership of your land."
@megankimble @TexasObserver https://www.texasobserver.org/community-land-trust-texas/
@megankimble @TexasObserver https://www.texasobserver.org/community-land-trust-texas/
June 3, 2020: "Preparing for the Post-COVID-19 Land Grab"
@Nikishka @NextCityOrg https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/preparing-for-the-post-covid-19-land-grab
@Nikishka @NextCityOrg https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/preparing-for-the-post-covid-19-land-grab
June 21, 2020: "A New Land Contract"
@AlastairParvin https://alastairparvin.medium.com/a-new-land-contract-684c3ba1f1b3
@AlastairParvin https://alastairparvin.medium.com/a-new-land-contract-684c3ba1f1b3
June 26, 2020: "How a Black Commons Could Help Build Communal Wealth"
@julianagyeman @KBbop @yesmagazine https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2020/06/26/black-wealth-land-ownership/
@julianagyeman @KBbop @yesmagazine https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2020/06/26/black-wealth-land-ownership/
June 30, 2020: "White people own 98% of rural land. Young Black farmers want to reclaim their share"
@tomphilpott @grist https://grist.org/justice/white-people-own-98-of-rural-land-young-black-farmers-want-to-reclaim-their-share/?utm_content=buffer685f4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
@tomphilpott @grist https://grist.org/justice/white-people-own-98-of-rural-land-young-black-farmers-want-to-reclaim-their-share/?utm_content=buffer685f4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
https://grist.org/justice/white-people-own-98-of-rural-land-young-black-farmers-want-to-reclaim-their-share/?utm_content=buffer685f4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
July 2020: "We Shall Not Be Moved: Collective ownership gives power back to poor farmers"
@Audromatic3000 @Harpers https://harpers.org/archive/2020/07/we-shall-not-be-moved-collective-ownership-black-farmers/
@Audromatic3000 @Harpers https://harpers.org/archive/2020/07/we-shall-not-be-moved-collective-ownership-black-farmers/
July 6, 2020: "Could Putting Farmland in the Commons Support Land Justice and Sustainability?"
@daniellebeurt @CivilEats @AgrarianTrust https://civileats.com/2020/07/06/could-putting-farmland-in-the-commons-support-land-justice-and-sustainability/
@daniellebeurt @CivilEats @AgrarianTrust https://civileats.com/2020/07/06/could-putting-farmland-in-the-commons-support-land-justice-and-sustainability/
July 31, 2020: "The End of Housing as We Know It: In the face of compounding crises, tenants and housing organizers see an opportunity to pry open the real estate industry's grip on our cities."
@Lfelizleon @platanomics @newrepublic https://newrepublic.com/article/158717/end-housing-know
@Lfelizleon @platanomics @newrepublic https://newrepublic.com/article/158717/end-housing-know
September 14, 2020: "How Community Land Trusts Can Help Heal Segregated Cities"
@MarkRoseland @cgboone @NextCityOrg https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/how-community-land-trusts-can-help-heal-segregated-cities
@MarkRoseland @cgboone @NextCityOrg https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/how-community-land-trusts-can-help-heal-segregated-cities
September 28, 2020: "It took a group of Black farmers to start fixing Detroit’s land ownership problem: For farmers to tackle food security, they need land equity."
@RhonJSmith @Detour_Detroit https://detourdetroiter.com/detroit-black-farmer-land-fund-fighting-inequity/
@RhonJSmith @Detour_Detroit https://detourdetroiter.com/detroit-black-farmer-land-fund-fighting-inequity/
November 24, 2020: "1% of Farms Operate 70% of World's Farmland: Researchers warn land inequality is rising with farmland increasingly dominated by a few major companies."
@jonathanwatts @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/24/farmland-inequality-is-rising-around-the-world-finds-report
@jonathanwatts @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/24/farmland-inequality-is-rising-around-the-world-finds-report
