facilitation and stewardship

of:

  • Intersectional organizing

  • Political education

  • Coalition building

  • Leadership development

  • Policy interventions

to protect communities at risk of displacement and to catalyze sustainable, community-led stabilization, reclamation, and development without displacement, prioritizing the leadership of historically marginalized residents.

CLP is currently developing public political education events and will help guide the formation of neighborhood councils, under the leadership of deeply rooted orgs and residents, that have the power to actualize transformative, sustainable, permanently affordable, reparative spatial justice projects across Durham and beyond. Given housing is the largest expense for most U.S. households, with Black and Brown residents suffering disproportionate burdens, this project will build collective power to engender political realignment with the working class.

Community Ecosystem development and knowledge sharing

Bringing together people with lived and learned expertise, we will build out projects that protect neighborhoods and others that redistribute, enable access to, and decommodify land and housing through community land trusts, cultural, environmental or agricultural easements, or land and housing co-operatives. These projects can also be set up as climate resiliency hubs – spaces residents can invest in and turn to in times of escalating climate disasters – as well as hubs supporting and generating local solidarity economies.

There is a space and place for everyone to build our collective futures –community members, organizer, lawyers, artists, researchers, teachers, radical real estate experts, … everyone!

Each initiative will have open access plans, strategies and trainings to inspire organizing for future community hubs.

Land, housing and Environmental justice platform

We are convening a coalition to co-create a visionary platform that bridges siloed organizing across the city and across issues as they intersect with land, housing and environmental justice

With community orgs, tenant unions, and mutual aid groups, as well as legal, policy, and arts practitioners working together, we can advance local solutions like land banking and developing city-owned land as permanently affordable housing, develop shared strategies to tackle state preemption laws that ban tenant protections (with legal assistance from Local Solutions Support Center), and collectively vision for a future where everyone has the truly affordable, dignified housing they need.