In a joint effort to foster stronger, more resilient communities, the Center for Community Progress and the Land Trust Alliance are pleased to announce the launch of a new interactive map for leaders in community revitalization. The National Land Bank and CLT Map identifies shared service areas between land banks, conservation land trusts and community land trusts to promote collaboration between these entities and maximize their unique but complimentary skillsets.

The National Land Bank and CLT Map offers a comprehensive overview of areas where the work of land banks, conservation land trusts and community land trusts may intersect. By identifying these potential areas of shared services, the map aims to encourage collaboration, allowing these organizations to leverage each other’s strengths to achieve common goals.

Land banks can use their unique powers to acquire, stabilize and transfer vacant properties to a land trust. Community land trusts can use those properties to create lasting affordable homeownership opportunities, while conservation land trusts can restore vacant land parcels to provide clean water, protect habitat for wildlife and plants, and help fight the impacts of climate change. Working together, these entities can help communities reactivate vacant, abandoned and deteriorated properties, protect natural resources, and provide quality affordable housing for current and future generations.

Today, there are few examples of effective, sustained partnerships between land banks and land trusts. However, these partnerships hold great potential, and together, land banks and land trusts can leverage each other’s strengths to support a more resilient and equitable future in neighborhoods across the United States.

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