Who We Are

The East New York Community Land Trust (ENYCLT) is a membership organization that stewards the built, social and natural environment through community organizing, planning, education, and democratic control of community-owned land. Our mission is to protect, stabilize and expand the stock of affordable homes, locally-owned small businesses, worker co-ops and green spaces in East New York and Brownsville for the benefit of longtime low-income and working class Black, Latine, Asian and other communities of color. We use direct action organizing to disrupt profit-driven real estate speculation in our communities and build resident leadership and community power. We build members’ capacity to collectively own and democratically manage their homes and buildings.