Book Talk | A Community Land Trust Digest: Legal and Social Commentaries
The Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP) at NYU Tandon and the International Center on Community Land Trusts invite you to join Community Land Trust (CLT) Digest contributors and editors Sheila Foster (Professor, Columbia Climate School), Manny Patole (Industry Asst. Professor, CUSP at NYU Tandon), and attorney Kristin King-Ries (Founder, King-Ries LLC) for a lively discussion on the kinds of information the book has to offer and ways the materials can support the CLTs in NYC. Share your input to a discussion on what comes next. What topics would you like to see explored that are not covered in the new volume?
Whether you’re a CLT resident or staff person, a policy maker, a law school clinical faculty member new to CLTs, or an attorney whose practice has centered on CLTs for years, there will be takeaways for everyone. Learn about resources on gentrification, affordable housing, public versus private versus community-control of land, and the challenges of asking low- and moderate-income homeowners to share the equity in their homes with future generations of homeowners, and help shape the future of legal research on CLTs.
This event will be held in Room 1201, located on the 12th Floor of 370 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY 11201.
About the Community Land Trust (CLT) Digest
If you have scoured the web for reliable legal information on community land trusts and come up empty, look no further. The Community Land Trust Digest is the first collection of articles on community land trusts with a legal focus. A joint publication of the American Bar Association and Terra Nostra Press, this volume was co-edited by Kristin King-Ries, Eliza Platts-Mills and John Emeus Davis with the help of an expert editorial board. With so many U.S. households struggling to find decent affordable housing, a growing number of individuals, communities, private developers, nonprofit organizations, and public officials at all levels of government are looking at the community land trust (CLT) model as part of the solution. There is a growing need for advocates, including lawyers, who are familiar with the model and share the vision of resident agency paired with permanently affordable home ownership opportunities.
About the Speakers
Sheila R. Foster is Professor of Climate at Columbia University and Affiliated Faculty at Columbia Law School. Foster is well known for her articles and books on environmental and climate justice, land use, local government, and urban policy. She co-directs LabGov, an international applied research and policy laboratory that pioneered the Co-City approach — a framework for collaborative, community-oriented urban governance now implemented across cities globally, set forth in her award-winning MIT Press book Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities (with Christian Iaione). She previously held endowed chairs in urban law and policy at Georgetown and Fordham Universities. Foster currently serves as Co-Chair of the NYC Panel on Climate Change, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Climate Resilience & Climate Justice, and directs LabGov US at Columbia Climate School.
Kristin King-Ries is an attorney whose practice is focused on creating and stewarding permanently affordable homes and farms for people priced out of the traditional real estate market. She represents CLTs in Washington, Montana and Oregon and serves as a legal consultant to nonprofits and municipalities throughout the U.S. She played the lead role in creating the US State Law Database in partnership with Greg Rosenberg and the International Center for CLTs. Currently she's collaborating with a team of policy researchers at the Florida CLT Institute to develop an open source legal hub for CLTs, limited equity cooperative housing and resident-owned communities. Kristin is co-author of a policy focus report for the Lincoln Institute of Land Use on City/CLT partnerships. Along with John Emeus Davis and Eliza Platts-Mills, she co-edited The CLT Digest, a collection of articles on legal aspects of CLTs for the American Bar Association. She is a frequent presenter on shared equity ownership models. This May she will be participating in a panel discussion at the annual conference of the ABA's Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development. Prior to starting her private practice, she served as general counsel for Trust Montana from 2017-2021. For a list of recent publications, presentations and interviews, go to the About page at kingriesllc.com.
Manny Patole is Industry Assistant Professor at New York University Center for Urban Science and Progress. His work examines urban livability through community, policy, and technology to advance equity, sustainability, and inclusion at the neighborhood scale. His current research explores the local impact of AI and data centers, shared equity models for urban affordability, and public interest technology. His current service includes Senior Fellow and Practitioner-in-Residence with NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology, board of Municipal Art Society of New York and the steering committee of American Planning Association’s Water and Planning Network.
Visitor Information
This event will be held in Room 1201 at 370 Jay St. Please visit the NYU Tandon website for directions and a campus map. Advance registration through Luma is required for campus access at NYU for external guests.