Friends of GBCLT

Gertrude Brown Community Land Trust is a collective of housed and unhoused folks seeking to build housing and own it collectively to end displacement, ensure stability, and allow for community oriented wrap-around services. 

A Community Land Trust (CLT) is a nonprofit organization that acquires and holds land for the benefit of the community. It separates the ownership of land from the ownership of buildings on the land, ensuring that the land remains a shared community resource forever. This approach enables communities to have a say in how the land is used and to create long-term solutions for affordable housing, sustainable development, and community initiatives.

The community will be self-sustaining with ongoing mutual aid support, including but not limited to; a community garden facilitated by residents, educational workshops to promote autonomous self-defense and de-escalation training hosted by Atlas Defense, wound care kit distribution and medic care facilitated by Freedom Street Health, consistent laundry service provided by The People’s Laundry, resource-share workshops, food-share, and most importantly, no cost of living on the land.