The Gertrude Brown CLT is a community land trust formed by

community members, including mutual aid organizations, unhoused individuals seeking autonomous housing, and small local businesses. Our mission is to help people who are unhoused and housing insecure in the Twin Cities secure housing, support their self-determination, and create a center of mutual aid by acquiring land in Minneapolis and supporting the building and maintenance of an intentional community with universally affordable legal dwellings. 

        We undertake this endeavor in response to the violent evictions conducted by the city of Minneapolis. In particular, unhoused people had built strong communities on unused public land listed as property of the “Office of Community Planning and Economic Development”, and rather than negotiate to do either of those things CPED led the city-wide policy of destruction.

        Our community will be sustained through services provided by mutual aid support from community members and organizations in collaboration with residents of the intentional community.

Support for the autonomous wellbeing of the community will include but is not limited to; a community garden, educational workshops, wound care kit distribution and medic care, food-share, support in navigating social services and most importantly, ensuring NO monetary barriers to living on the land.