The CLT Files

Dans cet épisode on discute avec Samuel Gervais, co-fondateur et co-directeur général de Territoires Solidaires, pour mieux comprendre comment les fiducies foncières communautaires se situent dans le contexte du logement communautaire québécois. Cet épisode est animé par Dominique Russell, co-directrice du Kensington Market Community Land Trust (KMCLT) à Toronto/Tkaronto.

Notes:

Samuel est le co-créateur du documentaire Le dernier flip : démarchandiser l’immobilier, à ne pas manquer. Vous pouvez le visionner ici.

Vous trouverez plus d’informations sur Territoires solidaires ici.

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À propos de la série:

Le concept des fiducies foncières communautaires est assez simple : il s'agit de retirer des terres du marché spéculatif et de les confier à la communauté. Mais ces trois mots – communauté, terre et fiducie – sont compliqués. 

Retrouvez-nous pour les « CLT Files », le balado qui propose de sonder les enjeux auxquels sont confrontées les fiducies foncières communautaires. Comment définir la communauté? Comment acquérir des terres (volées)? À qui faire confiance? Si vous êtes curieux de connaître la théorie et la pratique des fiducies foncières communautaires, vous allez vouloir ouvrir les dossiers FFC.

Produit par: Le Réseau Canadien des Fiducies Foncières Communautaires (RCFFC)

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This time we talk to organizations that have achieved major policy changes that have slowed  development, laying the ground work for acquisition and community stewardship of their  neighbourhoods. 

With Adriana Abizadeh, Executive Director of the Kensington Corridor Trust; Wendy Pedersen, Executive Director of the SRO-collective and Jessica Chen, Executive Director and Board Liaison of the Jia Foundation. 

Notes:  

Wendy discusses Jane McAlevey, an American union organizer, political commentator and  author, who died in July 2024. You can find more about her work and her books here.

Find out more about the Kensington Corridor Trust here. To learn about the campaign for  vacancy control, check out the DTES SRO-C’s website here. Check out the Jia Foundation’s  work here.

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Grassroots CLTs spill about the joys and complications of community, from defining their project to nurturing tenant communities in buildings they own.

With Chiyi Tam, Managing director of the Toronto Chinatown Community Land Trust; Anita Prasad, previous chair and board member of the Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust and Curtis Wiley, chair of the Upper Hammonds Plains Community Land Trust.

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In this episode, we discuss Canada’s new Federal Acquisition Fund: what it is in theory, what we need in practice, and the years of advocacy that got us to this announcement. Given the housing emergency, how do we effectively advocate for policies that allow us to acquire at-risk buildings and keep our neighbors housed?

With Joshua Barndt, Executive Director of the Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust; Thom Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer at Co-operative Housing Federation of BC; Mike Bulthuis, Executive Director of the Ottawa Community Land Trust; and Shekara Grant, founder of the Weymouth Falls Community Land Trust and Program Manager, Community Housing Transformation Centre.

Notes:

In April 2024, the federal government announced a new fund to protect existing affordable units across Canada, providing $1 billion in loans and $470 million in contributions to non-profit organizations and other partners to acquire and protect affordable units across Canada.

Three additional acquisition programs are referenced in the podcast:

British Columbia’s $500 million Rental Protection Fund, which provides one-time capital grants to non-profits and co-ops so they can buy existing rental buildings; Toronto’s MURA (Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition) Program; and Nova Scotia’s Community Housing Acquisition Program, which provides low-interest mortgages for acquisition of existing housing.

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