Discover How CLTs Can Transform Housing in Australia
Curious about how Community Land Trusts (CLTs) work in Australia and globally? Ready to take the first steps in starting one? Explore our collection of local resources, including global and Australian CLT resources, networks, insightful reports and links to must-read articles. Also Grounded’s reports, research, submissions, and webinars
We will continue to build our resource hub to include the best in Australian and International CLT research alongside the necessary tools to help you get your project mobilised and approved.
Your journey to affordable, community-driven housing starts here.
Grounded in Affordability: The Economic Case for Community Land Trusts
This is the first report to demonstrate what would be possible if we had a decent system to deter speculators, deliver affordable housing and create a self funding affordable housing vehicle. This results in an improved ROI on wasteful government interventions such as Help to Buy and First Home Buyers Grants – by 450%.
Grounded Resources
REPORTS & RESEARCH
- Grounded in Affordability: The Economic Case for Community Land Trusts, April 2025. This is the first report in Australia to demonstrate what would be possible if we had a decent system to deter speculators, deliver affordable housing and create a self funding affordable housing vehicle. This results in an improved ROI on wasteful government interventions such as Help to Buy and First Home Buyers Grants – by 450%.
- Airbnb: From a Housing Problem to Solution, June 2024. The report looks at the rising concern that Short Term Rentals (STRs) are causing detrimental harm to local communities. The report includes independent analysis of 13 tourism markets across Australia. These are markets where the growth in STRs has had significant local impacts.
- Exposing Airbnb’s Impact on Global Cities, August 2024. Follow up research for the Airbnb: From a Housing Problem to Solution report and media.
SUBMISSIONS
2025
- Help to Buy Regulations
- Productivity submission
- Grounded Submission: Regional Affordable Innovation in Victoria
- Engage Planning Submission
2024
- Build to Rent Inquiry
- Short Term Lets Inquiry – NSW Government
- Help to Buy Inquiry
- SA Budget submission
- Vic Budget submission
- Greater Adelaide Regional Plan submission
- Housing & Homelessness Inquiry
- Hepburn Structure plan submission
- Hepburn Budget submission
- The Worsening Rental Crisis in Australia
MEDIA
- OpEd for Australasian Housing Institute (AHI) – Best Practices in Shared Equity: Community Land Trusts. Read here.
- ABC News: Britons warn of dangers of shared home ownership scheme as Australian government mulls Help to Buy plan
- The Room X-change podcast: Community Land Trusts – A Grounded Approach to Housing
- Land Cycle Investor: Australia’s Renegade Economist! Karl Fitzgerald
Media on Airbnb: From a Housing Problem to Solution report, June – August 2024
- Radio National: Could a cap and trade system help fix part of the housing crisis?
- Dan Ziffer, ABC News: Cap and trade’ for Airbnb rentals proposed to win housing back for living and save tourist towns at the same time
- The Business | ABC News, Is an Airbnb cap the solution to the housing crisis?
- Alan Kohler, The Daily News: We need an AEMO for housing to match supply with demand
- Nine News: Property owners making 80 per cent more renting on Airbnb than to tenants
- Nine News: Airbnb returns taking from housing supply – Nine News
- Mornings with Raf Epstein: On an Airbnb cap n trade system
- Oped in The Fifth Estate: The Airbnb fiasco and the fightback
- Oped in The Wombat Post: How Do We Go From Airbnbs to Affordable Housing?
- Smart Property Investment: The long-term rental markets hardest hit by Airbnb
Additionally, the research was discussed in radio interviews on Sydney’s Eastside FM, Mackay ABC, 6PR, and 3CR.
EVENTS & WEBINARS
- Grounded in Affordability: The Economic Case for Community Land Trusts, April 2024
- DIY Affordable Housing, Sep 2024
- Surveillance Pricing Concerns – Build to Rent Inquiry
- Airbnb’s Inactive Stock = Affordability, July 2024
- Community Land Trusts the gold standard in Shared Equity, March 2024, presentation to Senate inquiry into the Help to Buy legislation
- Reclaim Your Housing Future, Nov 2023
- Make Your Own Rules: Explorations in Governance, March 2023
- Grounded Launch, Nov 2022
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GROUNDED ENEWS ARCHIVE
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Australian Community Land Trust Resources
AUSTRALIAN CLT RESOURCES
Thanks to Louise Crabtree-Hayes for her body of work featured here:
- Australian CLT Start Up Manual
- CLT Start Up Primer – Crabtree et al.
- Community Land Trusts and Indigenous Housing – Crabtree et al.
- An evidence base for the up-take and interest in CLT’s in Australia – Crabtree et al.
- CLTs and Indigenous Communities – Crabtree et al.
- CLTs – Embracing Relationality – Crabtree et al.
- Principles and Practices of an Affordable Housing CLT model – Crabtree et al.
- CLT Decision Making Toolkit – Crabtree et al.
- CLT Decision Making Toolkit – Existing Community Housing Provider – Crabtree et al.
- CLT Decision Making Tool for Startups – Crabtree et al.
CLTs and Indigenous Housing
- Community Land Trusts and Indigenous Housing Options (AHURI Report 2012)
- Community Land Trusts and Indigenous Housing: from Strategies to Outcomes (AHURI Report 2015)
- CLT Start-up Kit for Aboriginal Community Housing Providers in NSW [2013]
Toolkits
- CLT Decision Making Toolkit for Start-Ups [2013]
- CLT Decision Making Toolkit – Existing Community Housing Provider [2017]
Books and Reports
- Enabling Community Land Trusts in Australia (2019)
- NSW Mid North Coast Proof of Concept Report (2022)
Other Resources
- A Social Foundation for Material Impact: Community Land Trusts as drivers of circularity for a just transition
- Social & Environmental sustainability of CLT’s
- Urban Community Land Trusts in Europe
- CLT Financing: Understanding the diversity of models in Europe
AUSTRALIAN CLTs & NETWORKS
Networks
Victoria
New South Wales
- Waterfall Way Community Land Trust
- Byron Shire Community Land Trust (BSCLT)
- Byron Shire Council Led CLT
- Blue Mountains Community Land Trust
Queensland
- Southern Moreton Bay Islands CLT
- SE Qld CLT working group – looking into a CLT model to enable First Peoples stewardship and holistic development.
Northern Territory
Western Australia
Map by ACLTN
International Resources & Networks
INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS & CLTs
GLOBAL
FIRST NATIONS CLTs
EUROPE
UNITED KINGDOM
- UK Community Land Trust Network
- CLTN CLT Handbook Essentials – 2021 PDF Manual
- UK State of the Community Land Trust Sector – 2023 PDF Report
- Grandby Four Streets CLT – Liverpool
- London CLT
- Oxfordshire Community Land Trust
- Communities Housing Trust – Inverness, Scotland
- The Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust
FRANCE
CANADA
UNITED STATES
- Grounded Solutions Network
- Burlington Associates in Community Development
- Champlain Housing Trust – Burlington, Vermont
- Dudley Neighbours Incorporated CLT – Roxbury, Massachusetts
- Homestead Seattle CLT – Seattle, Washington
- Kulshan CLT – Bellingham, Washington
- Lopez Community Land Trust – Washington
BRAZIL