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A Community Land Trust (CLT) is a nonprofit organization that acquires and holds land for the benefit of the community. It separates the ownership of land from the ownership of buildings on the land, ensuring that the land remains a shared community resource forever.

We host biweekly Saturday meetings.  Anyone is welcome to come by and get involved!  You can also sign up to volunteer online here.

W. Gertrude Brown was the first director of the Phyllis Wheatley House, which opened in 1924 as the first settlement house to serve Black people in Minneapolis.  A Black woman from Dayton, Ohio, who 

The Gertrude Brown CLT is a community land trust formed by  community members, mutual aid organizations, unhoused individuals  seeking autonomous housing, and small local businesses. Our mission is  to help people who are unhoused and housing insecure in the Twin Cities  secure housing, self-determination, and a center of mutual aid by  acquiring land in Minneapolis and supporting the capacity to building an  intentional community with radically affordable legal dwellings.  

We undertake this endeavor in response to the violent evictions  conducted by the city of Minneapolis. In particular, unhoused people had  built strong communities on unused public land listed as property of the  “Office of Community Planning and Economic Development”, and  rather than negotiate to do either of those things CPED led the city-wide  policy of destruction. 

Our community will be self-sustaining with ongoing mutual aid support,  including but not limited to; a community garden facilitated by residents,  educational workshops to promote autonomous self-defense and  deescalation training, wound care kit distribution and medic care,  resource-share workshops, food-share, and most importantly, ensuring  no monetary barriers to living on the land.

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We will help people who are unhoused and housing insecure in the Twin Cities to secure housing, self-determination, and a center of mutual aid by forming a community land trust (CLT) to acquire land in Minneapolis and support the capacity to build radically affordable legal dwellings.