Social Sustainability through Community Land Trusts: A qualitative study on the impact of a CLT on the social sustainability of a neighbourhood.

The Community Land Trust (CLT) model is regarded by some as a possible solution to the current issues that European housing markets are facing, such as unaffordability and segregation. As this model is able to provide perpetual affordable housing through collaboration between local residents, local authorities and civil experts, the statement...

Bottom-Up | Top-Bottom: Comparing the current state of Community Land Trusts between Germany and England

The thesis concerns itself with a comparison of the state for Community Land Trusts between Germany and England. England has over 200 of such projects to present and Germany only one, founded in 2021. This leads to the question for reasoning. By contextualizing the current situation within the field of an historical derivation and an...

From waste to value: a toolbox and usecases for local circular waste processing

In the Bijlmer H-Buurt in Amsterdam, a new way of living is being developed, based on co-ownership of the property and collaboration with the neighborhood and municipality. It is called a Community Land Trust (CLT) and for the Netherlands it will be the first. The City of Amsterdam strives to be a fully circular city by 2050, so the CLT has to...

The Revival of the Social Housing Community: Providing security and shelter for the urban poor

Adequate housing has long been considered a basic human right. Trends of globalisation, financialisation and urbanisation are oppressing this right. Social housing is neglected by authorities and stigmatised by society. Local, low-income residents are dispossessed and displaced, and social housing is close to disappearance. London has become a...

A platform to facilitate the collaboration within CLT Amsterdam and connected CLT associations

The Netherlands is dealing with a housing crisis, which originates from the financial crisis of 2008 (Obbink, 2020). After the financial crisis, the population grew whereas construction declined. The current shortage of houses is around 330.000 (Obbink, 2020), to counter this issue an estimated 1 million new houses need to be built in the coming...

Organizing the Unorganized: Towards empowerment of the informal sector

Nalasopara East, a representative case of chaotic urban fabric in Mumbai, India, is comprised of densely packed mid-rise chawl developments which neglect the complex and unorganized network of informal economic activities of the low-income residents for the benefit of the private developers. This affordable housing project aims to embrace the...

All for one or ... one for all?

The housing estate of Nieuw Kattenburg is a Late-Modernist housing area consisting of many system-built slab buildings. This has been offering affordable housing and was built by the municipality of Amsterdam over fifty years ago. It is situated adjacent to the Amsterdam marine terrain which is now in the process of decommissioning and will be...