The Lopez Community Land Trust is a 501(c)3 non-profit, community-based organization whose purpose is to:

A. Acquire and hold land in trust in order to provide for permanently affordable housing. Homes shall be built and lands shall be used in an environmentally sensitive and socially responsible manner.
B. Provide permanently affordable access to land for such purposes as quality housing, sustainable agriculture and forestry, cottage industries and co-operatives by forever removing the land from the speculative market.
C. Develop and exercise responsible and ecological practices, which preserve, protect and enhance the land’s natural attributes.
D. Serve as a model in land stewardship and community development by providing information, resources and expertise.

The two main programs through which the LCLT is acting to fulfill our purpose are the Affordable Housing and the Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (SARD) programs.

Through these programs we are building a sustainable island community.

LCLT has been featured in the New York Times (May 2, 1993), Jim Tolpin’s The New Cottage Home (1998), Washington: Renewing the Countryside (2005), The Wall Street Journal (September 5, 2008), and Smart by Nature by the Center for Ecoliteracy (2009).