The Cambridge Community Land Trust seeks to create and maintain permanently affordable community run housing and community-determined spaces. The Cambridge Community Land Trust takes property out of the speculative market and keeps it a collectively controlled community asset for affordable housing and other uses such as community spaces, green space and gardens. There are currently 7 Community Land Trusts in the Greater Boston area, and Cambridge is joining this expanding Network!
The Cambridge Community Land Trust operates within the present day political boundary called Cambridge, Massachusetts, known in the Algonquin language as Anmoughcawgen. Many indigenous peoples preceded occupation by European settlers including the Massachusett people who established villages in Anmouchcawgen, the Nipmuc, and Wampanoag tribes. The land remains unceded.