Canmoreland’s mission is community conservation: to acquire, hold, and steward space of all kinds ensuring its highest and best use for the community, now and into the future.
Belonging is community. Everyone has an intrinsic need to be valued, respected, and have access to inclusive and welcoming spaces within a community. A sense of place provides a shared identity and well-being crucial to feeling at home within the community.
Connection strengthens community. We are committed to create opportunities for meaningful connections within community, recognizing that strong relationships and networks are the foundation of a thriving and mutually supportive environment.
Consideration shapes community. We respect and honour both the history and the future of the land. Creating spaces that are based on fairness, cooperation, reciprocity, and trust builds a healthy community and a thriving circular economy.
Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are community-led, non-profit organizations that acquire and hold property in the interest of their local community. CLTs are long-term stewards of affordability, which work to ensure perpetually affordable space for high social benefit BY REMOVING PROPERTY FROM THE SPECULATIVE MARKET. CLTs are a relatively new mechanism used to preserve all kinds of space and real estate in some of the country’s most desirable, and most expensive communities.
Canmoreland’s mission is community conservation: to acquire, hold, and steward space of all kinds ensuring its highest and best use for the community, now and into the future.
A group of local residents interested in helping shape the future of the Bow Valley. We are community advocates and connectors who are looking for real estate solutions that benefit the local community in perpetuity.
From Mini Thni to Lake Louise, the area known as the Bow Valley can benefit from the community land trust.
Community conservation is the idea of removing space from future speculation on the public market and preserving it as permanently accessible, affordable, and sustainable space for those who live, work, and raise their families in the Bow Valley.
In order to preserve our vibrant community, we need to create economic equity in relation to real estate and space for the community’s best use. We must lead by example, setting a new benchmark for a prosperous, balanced, and sustainable community. A community keeping the local people, environment, and Indigenous history and presence at its core.
Indigenous Peoples presence in the Americas reaches back to time immemorial. We recognize that Indigenous Peoples are the keepers and defenders of the land, animals and water. We acknowledge the historical oppression of lands, cultures and the original Peoples in what we now know as Canada. We believe that Arts and Culture contribute to the healing and decolonizing journey we all share.
In the spirit of reconciliation, we gratefully acknowledge that we live, work and play on the traditional territories of Indigenous Peoples. This includes the Iyarhe Nakoda Nations (Bearspaw, Goodstoney, Chiniki), the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika,Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina in Treaty 7 region, also traditionally, spirituality and culturally shared with Ktunaxa, Secwépemc, Mountain Cree and the Rocky View Métis District 4 within the Battle River Territory River Territory.
Financial donations are one way to support the community land trust, and of course, are always welcome - but there are other ways to help too - as a real estate focused non-profit we have a long list of ways you can donate and contribute, including unique opportunities for social impact investors.
In the world of creative real estate solutions there are all sorts of ways you can support Canmoreland CLT. From being passionate about the cause and volunteering, to social impact investing and loan terms, we want to connect and collaborate with like-minded people, like you.
If you're interested in learning about specific social impact real estate opportunities and other ways to participate, please start by submitting the form below.
The CNCLT supports the growth of community land trusts with the primary purpose of acquiring, developing and stewarding permanently affordable housing, land and other assets that contribute to a thriving community.
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