Greg Rosenberg

Apr 3 2017

Announcing a Pair of March 2017 Publications by John Emmeus Davis

This extended meditation on the economic, political, and operational advantages of the CLT builds upon a concept paper about community-led development on community-owned land that was posted on Roots & Branches a couple of years ago.

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May 1 2015

Troy Gardens Archive: CLT Development Documents

The Troy Gardens archive contains all development documents relating to the Troy Gardens project of the Madison Area Community Land Trust (MACLT).  Based on the complexity of the project and the variety of uses on the site (mixed-income cohousing, a CSA farm, community gardens, and a restored prairie), MACLT encountered nearly every issue a CLT […]

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Aug 19 2013

Toward A Loud and Proud CLT Movement

BY GREG ROSENBERG: This morning I taught what was probably my millionth class on community land trusts—but this one was different. This was a course for the Democracy Convention, the second national gathering of the U.S. democracy movement in Madison, Wis. For a change, the audience was way more radical than I was. And as I worked my way through a presentation on the division of property ownership, housing subsidies, and methods to minimize foreclosure rates, it dawned on me how much the language I used had changed over the years.

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Jun 28 2012

Too Much Measurement

BY GREG ROSENBERG: I remember a point I reached in my work a year and a half ago where I felt like I was spending just as much time measuring my performance as I was actually performing. I was filling out elaborately detailed tree structures with measurable performance targets. I was splitting each 15 minutes of my time into 16 different program categories.

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