Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1992. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Master of Regional and Community Planning / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / Larry L. Lawhon / This report examines the Town of Frisco, Colorado development process utilized to implement an attainable housing development within a resort style community. This report begins with the review of historic trends in affordable housing initiatives in American culture that has led to the importance of creating a diverse housing stock. The report was conducted by review of articles, government records, private and public reports, and research on the housing demand and analysis in the regional area. This report was conducted to provide resort style communities, similar to the Town of Frisco, a clear process of implementing an attainable housing development through the use of private/public partnerships. Frisco’s private/public partnership with the development team of Ten Mile Partners serves as a plausible process a community can undertake to increase a community’s housing stock diversity and affordability for long term residents.

Indigenous populations in Canadian urban centres have grown tremendously in recent years. One of the biggest challenges when Indigenous peoples move to urban centres is finding safe, affordable housing. The research focuses on the need to increase urban affordable housing options and highlights the community land trust as a model for providing perpetually affordable housing for urban Indigenous populations. A documentary analysis was completed to determine the housing needs and potential options for Indigenous peoples in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The second part examines the Little Earth of United Tribes Homeownership Initiative located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Homeownership Initiative, which partners with the City of Lakes Community Land Trust, was chosen because it specifically targets Indigenous peoples. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to further inform the case study and to provide greater background information. The two parts were brought together to determine how a community land trust might complement the range of Indigenous housing options currently available in Winnipeg. / October 2016

Since Hurricane Katrina, targeting redevelopment has become the dominant municipal strategy for neighborhood and city-wide revitalization. Since 2009, this strategy has been adopted and is currently being implemented by the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority in several New Orleans neighborhoods. One such area includes the commercial corridor of the Central City neighborhood, Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard (OC Haley). This thesis describes and assesses NORA‘s strategy for revitalizing OC Haley with regards to impacts on Central City‘s economic development and affordable housing—two of the area‘s greatest challenges. Although NORA‘s targeting strategy is proving effective in many respects, it is not without its limitations including creating a gentrifying environment. To address this foreseeable impact, this thesis recommends the incorporation of a Community Land Trust (CLT) into NORA‘s Central City Strategy to aid in effectively revitalizing the neighborhood without compromising affordability.

As the community land trust (CLT) movement in the United States approaches its 50th anniversary, CLT members, practitioners and researchers are exploring and pushing the boundaries of the model. CLTs offer an alternative model of land use tenure that permanently removes properties from the speculative market for the ongoing common good of the community. Most frequently associated with the provision of affordable housing in strong real estate markets, several CLTs across the country are now expanding into the commercial realm. This thesis compares the incipient commercial development efforts underway in St. Paul, Minnesota and New Orleans, Louisiana in order to better understand the potential role of CLTs in helping communities preserve and create commercial assets under a wide range of market forces.

Public and private actors have suggested using the community land trust (CLT) model as a remedy for a number of housing related issues. This is based primarily upon the documented successes of CLT homeownership programs. Some caution that the growth of CLTs and the increased use of the CLT model beyond homeownership may stretch organizations beyond their capacity or force them to consider how to provide stewardship and community control. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) has been used by a handful of CLTs and there are reasons to believe that more CLTs may utilize it in the future. This thesis explores the opportunities and challenges that using LIHTC may present for CLTs through case studies with two different types of organizations--a grassroots CLT in Athens, GA and a nonprofit housing developer with a CLT program in Park City, UT--that have used it as a funding source.

En samfällighet kan enligt dagens lagstiftning inte vara delägare i en gemensamhetsanläggning. Det är däremot ibland önskvärt att en samfällighet kan delta i en gemensamhetsanläggning, framförallt vid användning av vägar. Problematik uppstår då andelstal ska tilldelas när det gäller större marksamfälligheter med hundratals fastigheter som delägare. Praktiskt kan förrättningslantmätaren lösa hanteringen genom att ge ett gemensamt andelstal till de delägande fastigheterna i samfälligheten. Vidare kan registreringen av förrättningen förenklas genom att samfälligheten redovisas som delägare i fastighetsregistret istället för de delägande fastigheterna, detta har stöd i Lantmäteriets interna handböcker. Examensarbetets syfte är att utreda om tillämpningen som Lantmäteriet gör avseende andelstal är förenlig med anläggningslagens regler. Detta görs genom att beskriva den problematik som finns och redogöra för gällande rätt. Strukturen följer att definiera begreppet samfällighet och innebörden i denna uppsats, beskriva fastighetsregistret och vad gemensamhetsanläggningar är enligt anläggningslagen. Sedan analyseras relevanta rättsfall på området. Metoden avser huvudsakligen att studera relevant lagstiftning för ämnet, där inkluderat förarbeten. Uppsatsen skrivs i samarbete med Lantmäteriet och därmed har två förrättningsakter tilldelats vilka analyseras tillsammans med gällande lagstiftning. Utöver det studeras Lantmäteriets interna handböcker som en del i syftet. Slutligen ges ett annat perspektiv på rättsfallen från två aktiva domare i mark- och miljödomstolen. Gemensamma andelstal för samfälligheter är till största grad inte förenligt med anläggningslagen. Det undantagsfall, för brukningsenheter och möjligen även gemensamma ägovidder, då ett gemensamt andelstal är möjligt att tillämpa berörs inte i rättsfallen och är ytterst ovanligt förekommande. I det rättsfall där Lantmäteriets hantering av andelstal godkänts från domstolen, är det inte ett fall av gemensamt andelstal, trots att det vid en första anblick ser ut som det. Det förenklade registerförfarandet i Lantmäteriets interna handböcker är inte lika tydligt. De interna handböckerna tyder på att en samfällighet kan redovisas som delägare i en gemensamhetsanläggning. Det är dock mindre tydligt huruvida det är fullt förenligt med förordningen (2000:308) om fastighetsregister men det ser inte ut att finnas något som direkt strider mot lagen. Lantmäteriet verkar inte få tilldela gemensamma andelstal för de delägande fastigheterna i en gemensamhetsanläggning. En prejudicerande dom från mark- och miljööverdomstolen skulle ge ett starkare resultat. Den förenklade registerhanteringens tillämpning kan behöva utredas, trots att den verkar enig med lagen. / Under current laws, a joint property unit cannot be a part-owner in a joint facility. However, it may be desirable that it participate in a joint facility providing roads. A problem appears when determining the participatory shares for properties within a joint property unit that have hundreds of co-owners. The land surveyor can practically solve the handling by giving the co-owners in the joint property unit a shared participatory share. The purpose of this study is to determine whether Lantmäteriet’s handling of the participatory shares is compatible with the Joint Facilities Act (anläggningslag 1973:1149). This is done by explaining the current problem and presenting the law. Firstly, the term “joint property unit” is defined, followed by the property register and then what a joint facility is according to the law. Lastly, recent cases of the problem are presented before the final analysis. The method is mainly about reading laws relevant for the thesis, including preparatory work for the laws. The degree project is an assignment from Lantmäteriet. With that, two relevant administrative acts have been given to analyze against the law. Lantmäteriet’s internal guidelines are also studied as a part of the thesis. To give another perspective on the cases, two active judges within the Land- and Environment Court have been interviewed. The use of shared participatory shares is generally not considered to be legally approved. It does exist special cases where it is applicable, however, the analyzed cases are not as such. Those circumstances are exceedingly uncommon. In the case where Lantmäteriet’s handling of participatory shares has received approval is not, in fact, a shared number. The simplified register procedure in Lantmäteriet’s internal guidelines is not as clear. The internal guidelines indicate that a joint property unit can be registered as a part-owner in a joint facility. It is not as simple to determine the standing against the law, but it seems to be compatible with the Real Property Ordinance (förordning 2000:308 om fastighetsregister). Lantmäteriet are not allowed to assign these shared participatory numbers for participating properties in the joint facility. A prejudicial judgment from the Land- and Environment Court would give a more indicative result.

This thesis contends that; in mainstream rural residential development around the Australian Capital Territory, use of community title guidelines for sub-division should consider social processes and environmental considerations along-side economic imperatives and interactions. Community title is a form of land tenure that allows for private freehold ownership of land as well as community owned land within the one sub-division. In New South Wales, community title was introduced in 1990 under the Community Land Development Act 1989 (NSW) and the Community Land Management Act 1989 (NSW). Since the introduction of community title, upwards of one hundred and fifty developments, ranging from just a few blocks to the size of small suburbs, have been approved throughout the state. The original aim of community title was to provide a legal framework that underpinned theme-based broad-acre development. Themebased development could include a Permaculture© village, a rural retreat for likeminded equine enthusiasts, or even a medieval village. Community title is also seen as an expedient form of land tenure for both developers and shire councils. Under community title, a developer only has to submit a single development application for a multi-stage development. This can significantly reduce a developer's exposure to risk. From a shire council's perspective, common land and resources within a development, which would otherwise revert to council responsibility for management, becomes the collective responsibility of all the land owners within the development, effectively obviating council from any responsibility for management of that land. Community title is also being touted in planning and policy as a way of achieving 'sustainable' environmental management in new subdivisions. The apparent expediency of community title has meant that development under these guidelines has very quickly moved beyond theme-based development into mainstream rural residential development. Community title effectively provides a framework for participatory governance of these developments. The rules governing a community title development are set out in the management statement, which is submitted to the local council and the state government with the development application. A community association, which includes all lot owners, manages the development. Unless written into the original development application, the council has no role in the management of the common land and resources. This thesis looks at the peri-urban zone around one of Australia's fastest growing cities - Canberra, whose population growth and relative affluence is impacting on rural residential activity in the shires surrounding the Australian Capital Territory. Yarrowlumla Shire, immediately adjacent to the ACT, has experienced a 362 percent increase in population since 1971. Much of this growth has been in the form of rural residential or hobby farm development. Since 1990, about fifteen percent of the development in Yarrowlumla Shire has been community title. The Yass Shire, to the north of the ACT, has shown a forty five percent population increase since 1971. Community title in that shire has accounted for over fifty percent of development since 1990. The thesis case study is set in Yass Shire. The major research question addressed in the thesis is; does community title, within the context of rural residential development around the Australian Capital Territory, facilitate community-based environmental management and education? Subsidiary questions are; what are the issues in and around rural residential developments within the context of the study, who are the stakeholders and what role do they play and; what skills and support are required to facilitate community-based environmental management and education within the context of the study area? To answer the research questions I undertook an interpretive case study, using ethnographic methods, of rural residential development near the village of Murrumbateman in the Yass Shire, thirty kilometres north of Canberra. At the time of the study, which was undertaken in 1996, the developments involved had been established for about four years. The case study revealed that, as a result of stakeholders and residents not being prepared for the management implications of community title, un-necessary conflict was created between residents and between residents and stakeholders. Community-based environmental management issues were not considered until these issues of conflict were addressed and residents had spent enough time in the estates to familiarise themselves with their environment and with each other. Once residents realised that decisions made by the community association could affect them, there developed a desire to participate in the process of management. Eventually, earlier obstacles were overcome and a sense of community began to develop through involvement in the community association. As residents became more involved, the benefits of having ownership of the community association began to emerge. However, this research found that management of a broad acre rural residential development under community title was far more complicated than any of the stakeholders, or any but the most legally minded residents, were prepared for.

Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are an affordable housing model based in the principles of community control of land and housing, as well as the permanent affordability of home ownership. Because of their membership-based governance structure and limited-equity formula, they are uniquely positioned to target reinvestment in communities of color and low-income communities without perpetuating cycles of displacement. Though focused on home ownership, many CLTs have adapted the model to include rental housing. This addition has the potential to expand affordability and opportunities for community governance to lower-income renters; however, it also challenges CLTs as organizations with little experience developing or managing rental housing. CLTs interested in providing rental units also find limited sources of research guidance on the topic. This thesis intends to evaluate the reasons CLTs do or do not provide rental housing, the obstacles to providing rental housing, the strategies they use to overcome those obstacles, and the resources available to them. To achieve these objectives it assesses interviews with staff at 22 CLTs around the U.S. The research finds that CLTs begin providing rental units to meet the housing needs of low-income people who do not qualify for mortgages, and when the resources available to them supports this strategy. It also reveals that CLTs face significant challenges taking on large rental projects early in their rental careers, but may succeed with smaller-scale rental development and management. The findings suggest that CLTs require much more technical assistance in developing and managing rental properties. The modification of the CLT model to include renters also necessitates some re-thinking of how to provide the full benefits of the model to these new tenants, as well as how to best market the organizations to municipal officials. Lastly, this research aims to encourage planners to reevaluate housing policies biased toward home ownership, especially given the instability of the housing market and the increased demand for rental units. CLTs’ success with rental housing should also prompt these public officials to challenge the typical stereotypes of renters and understand the stability, flexibility, and sustainability that CLTs can bring to affordable rental housing.

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