Thriving Communities

The “Envisioning Community Land Trust” series reflects a collaboration between students of CSD’s Dr. Molly Metzger and two community partners: elected officials and community organizations in Webster Groves, Missouri, and the Green City Coalition in the City of St. Louis, MO. The intention of this series is to make scholarship on CLTs more accessible to the public, in order to foster robust community engagement concerning new possibilities for this model in the St. Louis region.

This initiative investigates what social conditions and policy supports can make life with a low or moderate income stable, secure, satisfying and successful.

We designed an initiative to develop an integrated “equity” framework for community development to inform constituencies about effective redevelopment of a neighborhood.

The Policy and Housing Opportunity initiative is a collaboration between students of CSD’s Dr. Molly Metzger and community partners in the St. Louis region. The initiative is designed to broaden housing opportunity in metropolitan St. Louis and particularly in the region's majority-white, inner-ring suburbs.