Somerville Community Land Trust

12/16/2025

The word is out in Winter Hill! Join us on Thursday at .at.bow in Union Sq! Please RSVP at the link in our bio!

12/02/2025

As 2025 closes out, there is no better way to wrap up the year than by celebrating community! Mark your calendar for December 18, 6pm-9pm, when Somerville CLT hosts our End of Year Celebration at Upstairs at Bow Market Union Square. This is more than a party, it’s a chance for the SCLT community to connect with each other and celebrate our victories.

The event includes:

Food and drink (cash bar)
Socializing
Live music
Raffle
Acknowledgments and thank yous!
Please RSVP to let us know you are going by clicking the link in our Bio!!

¡Confirme su asistencia a la celebración de fin de año de Somerville Community Land Trust!

Convite para a Celebração de fim de ano da Somerville Community Land Trust!

Konfime patisipasyon w pou fèt fen ane Somerville Community Land Trust!

सोमरभिल कम्युनिटी ल्याण्ड ट्रस्टको वर्षअन्त्य उत्सवमा सहभागी हुन दर्ता गर्नुहोस्!

立即回复 出席萨默维尔 社区土地信托基金会 的年终庆祝会活动

11/03/2025

Community Land Trust Day/Día de Fideicomisos Comunitarios/社区土地信托日/Jounen konfyans nan tè kominote a!

Save the date, Saturday December 6 9:30am-3pm for a day of learning, connection, and fun focused on community land trusts. All are welcome, from established to emerging to hypothetical CLTs! Register at the link in our bio!

10/20/2025

We marched for affordable housing (or, honking 🎷) at the 20th Annual HONK! festival.

Many thanks to all of the volunteers, membership and their families, as well as the Cambridge CLT, for showing up to make some noise with us. It’s this energy and enthusiasm for our mission that drives our collective work!

See you same time next year.

09/03/2025

BIG NEWS!

Somerville CLT is thrilled to announce that we've acquired, in partnership with Just A Start , 297 Medford St. in Gilman Sq!

This is MORE than just a building acquisition - this is community power and action! Thank you to everyone who helped make this project happen by supporting our zoning map amendment.

What's coming: A brand-new 100% affordable apartment building with ~50 homes for our neighbors.

What this means: Somerville residents will have stable, affordable housing that stays affordable FOREVER. No gentrification, no out of control rents, just community-controlled housing!

Want to learn more? Find us at Gilman Sq. Arts and Music Festival in 9/13, right where this project is happening! Well be there to celebrate this success, answer your questions and learn about your housing values and interests!

Ready to be part of our vision for housing justice? Your support makes projects like this possible! Help us continue building community power and permanently affordable housing by donating out our "Lift Together, Build Forever" campaign - link in bio!

Together, were building a future where everyone belongs!

08/20/2025

The post says it all! Come celebrate Somerville CLT’s acquisition of 14 Sewall Street in Winter Hill! We look forward to building permanently affordable housing with our partners at and with support from the . Join the photo op at 6pm sharp!

05/13/2025

05/08/2025

Groove with Beft this Porchfest at 53 Paulina St., Somerville from 12pm-2pm AND
learn how CAAS & SCLT are promoting neighborhood stability in Somerville!

04/29/2025

Local artists 🤝 community land trusts

Somerville Open Studios is this weekend! May 3+4 from 12-6pm. We are partnering with local artists to rep SCLT at their studios— come check out their work & grab some SCLT swag while you’re at it.

🗺️ Snag the SCLT map at tinyurl.com/scltSOS2025 or click the link in our bio 🔗

03/07/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended SCLT's and Just A Start's community meeting about 297 Medford Street last night and for making this a successful event!

Thank you City Councillors Kristen Strezo , Will Mbah and and Jake Wilson for coming out!

We are excited to keep the momentum going for an upcoming Land Use Committee meeting on Thursday March 20 at 6:30pm to present our zoning map amendment, which will include public comments.

Please join and speak in favor of this project and zoning amendment. You can also sign an online letter of support which has 200+ signatures by visiting bit.ly/support297medford.

Learn more about this project, the proposed amendment, and how to join the next meeting by visiting:

www.somervillecommunitylandtrust.org/our-properties

02/14/2025

So Cambridge just eliminated single family zoning and now allows up to six story residential buildings across the city when 20% of units are affordable.

What could affordable housing look like here? 👀

01/29/2025

Somerville CLT is excited to welcome Hannah Carrillo to our Board of Directors as a Somerville resident representative!

Hannah has lived in East Somerville for the past 10 years and is excited to join the Somerville Community Land Trust board after years of volunteering.

Thank you for your continued involvement and dedication to SCLT!