More about Community Land Trusts (CLT’s), Land, Race and Economics in US history.
CLTs as an affordable housing mechanism in Austin TX with history of movement from The Atlantic,
Dudley Street Boston coop (Yes Magazine), and here (Labgov).
History of Community Land Trusts: Civil Rights Movement www.cltroots.org
Narrated ppt on history and types of CLT’s.
Arc of Justice the movie trailer: about the first CLT in the US organized by civil rights pioneers in SW Georgia in 1970.
Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (clarifying how allowing the ability of private parties to own large amounts land and other natural resources is the main source of poverty-see below) , the “Corruption of Economics” by “robber barons” and the “dividing and conquering”/demonization of collective political organizing efforts of working people which defines our politics as vividly today at in late 19th Century. (Full history of populism: Jacobin interview with Thomas Frank).
Shawn Wallace reading Henry George on “The Crime of Poverty” 1885 : the poor are victims of a crime for which we are all responsible”
A great TED talk explaining land-housing connection.
An intro to Georgist Philosophy
Georgist economics and relevance: http://www.henrygeorge.org
Wikipedia on Georgism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Georgism applied to Boulder from Zane Selvans:
Density or Exclusion: The Perils of Local Zoning
