156. Symposia - The Georgist roots of the community land trust model

Today's discussion is hosted by Ibrahima Drame,  our Director of Education, who is joined by Oriane Roty. Our conversation was recorded on April of 2025.Ms. Roty is a Ph.D candidate at the Cultural and Discursive Interactions department of the University of Tours in France. She is part of a French Research agency-funded project called the Trust Issues Project, which brings together a multidisciplinary group of researchers to study community land trusts (CLTs) and how they can be adopted in France. Much of her research analyzes the evolution of law around CLTs in response to housing crises. Her research homes in on CLT frameworks in the context of social, historical, and legal events going on at the time. Oriane received her bachelor’s degree from Maastricht University in European Law and the University of Paris Sorbonne in Law, her master’s in Philosophy and Society Research from the University of Paris Sorbonne, and is currently completing her Ph.D at the University of Tours in France.Together, we discussed the origins of community land trusts, compared the French and American land-trust systems, and the causes and impacts of the housing crisis in the western world.To check out more of our content, including our research and policy tools, visit our website: https://www.hgsss.org/