North Carolina Community Land Trust Coalition
By Kimberly Sanchez, CHT Executive Director
In April 2025, our newly-formed North Carolina Community Land Trust Coalition held its first in-person meeting, an all-day strategic planning retreat facilitated by Armstrong McGuire. We are a statewide network of community land trusts united to share resources, shape housing policy, and create homes that stay affordable for generations. We envision a state where neighbors unite to make housing more attainable, fueling local economies, and building more resilient communities. Community land trusts are a powerful solution for housing affordability that is permanently protected. This model stabilizes and uplifts low- to moderate-income residents and disenfranchised populations. Grants from the SECU Foundation and Z Smith Reynolds served as the seed funding to launch this new Coalition.
Current members of the Coalition include
- Asheville-Buncombe Community Land Trust
- Black Mountain CLT
- Burlington Community Land Trust
- Cape Fear Community Land Trust
- Community Home Trust
- Durham Community Land Trustees
- Raleigh Area Land Trust
- The Industrial Commons
- Watauga Community Housing Trust
- WeBuild Concord
- Western North Carolina CLT
We spent the day working on a shared mission, vision and values as a Coalition. We discussed ways we can work together to educate our communities, scale our impact, increase government and philanthropic support for our organizations, and support each other in providing more affordable housing opportunities for our neighbors.
The members of the Coalition represent a wealth of experience and impact in their communities. Collectively, Coalition members have already
- created 394 affordable homeownership units
- created 398 affordable rental units
- supported households with an average of 63% Area Median Income
Working together, we know that we can amplify our impact and expand our reach, creating new strategies for advocacy, funding, and partnerships to continue to develop the essential permanently affordable housing tool of community land trusts.
Visit our website — and check back often for updates! — at www.nccltc.org.
