• Justin Rose, Loraine Arikat, Geoff Gusoff, and Craig Evan Pollack.
• Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD, USA. jrose39@jh.edu.
• J Urban Health. 2023 Apr 1; 100 (2): 389397389-397.

AbstractCommunity land trusts (CLTs) provide long-term affordable housing and offer a range of mechanisms that may improve the health and well-being of low-income households. We sought to elucidate these mechanisms through thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with a diverse sample of CLT staff and residents across the USA. Stakeholders most frequently identified improvements in mental health that come through increased housing stability and affordability. Other factors-including the ways that CLTs promote wealth generation, improvements in housing quality and neighborhood amenities, services and partnerships with healthcare organizations, and democratic governance-were raised by respondents though less frequently tied to health benefits. CLTs represent a promising area for future research on housing's impact on health.© 2023. The New York Academy of Medicine.

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