A Community Land Trust is a form of ownership in which land is held and managed by a community rather than traded on the open market. Co-Operate examined the model for the H-Buurt neighbourhood: land is stewarded over the long term for affordability, community value and future generations. Area development shifts from rapid asset value towards lasting neighbourhood value.
The consequence lies in the financing. Land taken out of market logic does not need to generate a short-term return, which allows it to be matched with patient capital. Affordability then stops being a temporary measure and becomes a property of the ownership structure itself, one that still holds for residents arriving fifty years from now. Source: Co-Operate project dossier — A neighbourhood for seven generations, New Economy (2021).