John Emmeus Davis
Background
John Emmeus Davis is a city planner whose scholarly writing and professional practice has focused on community land trusts and other models of community-led development on community-owned land. He is a founding partner of Burlington Associates in Community Development, a national consulting cooperative that has assisted over 120 CLTs since 1993. He is currently president of the Center for Community Land Trust Innovation, a nonprofit organization supporting the growth of CLTs internationally. He also serves as editor-in-chief of the Center’s imprint, Terra Nostra Press.
Davis holds a BA from Vanderbilt University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has taught housing policy and neighborhood planning at New Hampshire College, the University of Vermont, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in Burlington, Vermont, where he served for ten years as the city’s housing director under Mayors Bernie Sanders and Peter Clavelle.
Publications
His publications include Community Matters (2022), On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust (2020), Affordable for Good: Building Inclusive Communities through Homes that Last (2017), Manuel d’antispeculation immobilière (2014), The Community Land Trust Reader (2010), The Affordable City: Toward a Third Sector Housing Policy (1994), Contested Ground: Collective Action and the Urban Neighborhood (1991), and The Community Land Trust Handbook (1982). He also co-produced the documentary film Arc of Justice: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of a Beloved Community (2016).
Collection
The John Emmeus Davis Collection consists of articles, papers, notes, booklets, audiovisual materials, and correspondences from John Emmeus Davis’s work. Topics include community land trusts, shared equity housing, community development, urban planning, housing policy, neighborhoods, social theory, Marxist theory, and community organization.
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