European Community Land Trust Network

Prepared by Maite Arrondo and our Head of Research & Innovation, Rylan Shewmaker, and published by La Dinamo with Coòpolis, the report offers an evidence-based toolkit drawn from comparable European experiences. Looking at five cases from London and Brussels to rural England, Leuven and Turin, it shows how all levels of governments have a role to play in supporting community land ownership and management.
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This report is one example of the advice and support we offer municipalities, foundations and enabling organisations. Exploring new ways to deliver affordable housing? Get in touch.

EACH met with the European Commission’s Housing Task Force in late February 2026 to provide input for the drafting of the European Affordable Housing Act. The document compiles insights from CLTs and cooperative housing providers across Europe, highlighting key barriers and bottlenecks as well as best-practice.
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This report reflects on the first convening of the European Alliance for Collaborative Housing, 24-26 February 2026, which led to the Alliance’s recognition on EU-level.
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The core barrier to collaborative housing is a lack of financial infrastructure. This document calls on the EIB to go beyond project-level lending and instead build an architecture for aggregating, de-risking, technically preparing, and refinancing these projects into long-term affordable debt. The MOBA Accelerator is suggested as a first pilot.
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This document sets out why collaborative housing should be recognised as a bankable, lower-risk asset class, and outlines concrete financing tools that can unlock institutional lending. It also shows, through case studies, how collaborative housing can de-risk and speed up brownfield redevelopment.

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The report aims to increase our understanding of CLT strategies, structures, and impact, as well as explore potential pathways for growth. This piece of evidence would have not been possible without our members and their important work on the ground.
This report has been produced for the European CLT Network by The Good Economy (TGE).
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This report is a complementary report to the 2025 Community Land Trusts in Europe: State of the Sector Report. Its purpose is to further investigate the impact of CLTs through two case studies: Community Land Trust Brussels and London CLT.
This report has been produced for the European CLT Network by The Good Economy (TGE).
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The decisions we make to build, use, demolish and invest in our housing must be guided by their potential impact on both human rights and our planet’s climate, as climate change can exacerbate existing inequalities. To ensure a just transition, decarbonization must also have the explicit aim of reducing inequality by prioritizing the needs of marginalized, low-income communities; this is a primary motive of Community Land Trusts.
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Along with supporting the growth of CLTs, we want to help them deepen their impact – supporting the delivery not just of community-led and affordable homes, but of circular homes and lifestyles, too. Our impact objective for this work is to enable and promote CLTs across Europe to become regional drivers in the transition to a circular built environment in terms of circular buildings and circular lifestyles.
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This collaborative work prepared by the SHICC partners traces the growth and dissemination of the CLT model across Europe over the past years. It sheds light on the most innovative projects, as well as recent milestones and achievements.
Please find here the consolidated report of ten case studies demonstrating the variety of CLT models in Europe.
This Action Plan presents a shared Financing Strategy for CLTs in Europe. Access the Action Plan here
FMDV has produced a guide (EN / FR) which explores the common problems faced by CLTs in Europe and key financial instruments to overcome challenges.
As part of the European SHICC program, and with the support of its six partners, FMDV has published a report on the Financial Models of the Community Land Trust or Solidarity Land Organizations (OFS) for its French equivalent in Europe. Through an in-depth analysis of six case studies covering the United Kingdom, Belgium, and France, this report highlights the diversity of financial models developed by the CLTs / OFSs to develop affordable housing.
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Learn more about the barriers and opportunities for CLTs’ growth in Europe.
Financial barriers to growth + opportunities
Policy barriers to growth + opportunities
Stewardship barriers to growth + opportunities
Please click here to find out more about the model and the key pathways to increase CLTs’ impact.