Webinar – Held Together: Research Perspectives on CLTs Around the World

Around the world, communities are pushing back against housing systems that treat homes as financial assets rather than places to live. From Canada to the UK and Brazil, Community Land Trusts as strategies for care, resistance, and possibility.

Held Together: Research Perspectives on Community Land Trusts Around the World brings together researchers and practitioners from Canada, the UK, and Brazil to explore how Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are helping keep housing affordable, land protected, and communities intact.

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This 90-minute conversation asks a simple but powerful question: what changes when housing is something we hold together, rather than something to be bought, sold, and exploited?

As global housing markets grow increasingly speculative, the impacts are felt close to home: rising rents, displacement, and the slow erosion of community life. Yet across different regions and political contexts, communities are organizing collective responses that put long-term care, stewardship, and belonging at the centre.

This webinar brings together perspectives from:

• Indigenous-led planning on the west coast of Canada
• Black-led community housing movements in the UK
• CLT initiatives from Brazil responding to financialized urban development

Together, our speakers (Maggie Low, Tarcyla Fidalgo and Claude Hendrickson) will explore how Community Land Trusts function not just as policy tools, but as living infrastructure: models that protect land from speculation and support housing as a shared social good.

Designed for researchers, students, housing practitioners, organizers, and policymakers, this conversation balances critical research with grounded, real-world experience. Expect a thoughtful, accessible discussion that looks beyond Western silos and invites learning across borders.