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Get a Sneak Peek at What's Ahead for the Muskoka Community Land Trust in 2025
Community insight survey, 2024 annual report, new board member, and more.
Your voice matters. Help us create a home grown solution to the housing crisis in Muskoka by taking this short survey.
New and returning board members, Florence Street Micro-Community updates, and grant news.
We are delighted to welcome Chris Jordan-Stevens back to the board of directors from his leave of absence, and Kathleen May and Jennifer Alexis as new directors.
Even as we gather the resources needed for eco-affordable construction, we’re looking ahead to a time when the buildings are ready for occupancy, and the community we hope to nurture and grow in partnership with residents, neighbours, and local organizations already at work building a healthy, compassionate, and just Muskoka.
It is with gratitude for their years of service to the Muskoka Community Land Trust that we announce the departure of Suzanne Martineau and Christopher Jordan-Stevens from the board of directors.
An update on the evolving plans for Florence Street, Muskoka Housing Task Force 2.0, MCLT’s new podcast, and more.
Since the initial offer of land from the Town of Huntsville, the development concept has changed numerous times, from the first draft of 40 affordable homes for purchase alongside a single G.R.E.A.T. sixplex, to a much more ambitious plan on a larger property with room for with room for at least two G.R.E.A.T. sixplexes plus another 149 units, many of them purpose-built rental housing.
Meet Melinda Zytaruk, board director for the Muskoka Community Land Trust, General Manager of Fourth Pig Green & Natural Construction, and CEO of TookeTree Passive Homes
During the 2023 Rethink Poverty event, organized by United Way Simcoe-Muskoka, Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, Simcoe-Muskoka Skill Force, and Simcoe County Poverty Reduction Task Group, community organizations including the Muskoka Community Land Trust, Elizabeth Fry Society, Living Wage Ontario, and Information Orillia came together under the theme of “taking the work from talk to action”.
Councillors for the Town of Huntsville voted unanimously on October 25th to review potential development options and the process for transfer of lands to the Muskoka Community Land Trust for the purpose of building an attainable, affordable housing community .
Meet Tatiana Sutherland, board director for the Muskoka Community Land Trust and District and Town Councillor for Bracebridge.
Suzanne Martineau was interviewed for a Global News Story about Community Land Trusts across the country.
The revitalized and relaunched Muskoka Housing Task Force 2.0 kicked off its inaugural meeting on September 28th, and the Muskoka Community Land Trust is proud to be a member of this energized working group.
It will take a “wartime effort” involving everyone at every level to create enough affordable housing for Muskoka
The Muskoka Community Land Trust is seeking people passionate about creating affordable housing solutions for our community.
We are pleased to announce that the District Municipality of Muskoka has provided seed funding to the MCLT to develop the operational capacity necessary to become self-funding within the next two years.
If we don't start thinking about housing as a social good first and foremost, we are right to anticipate gentrification and displacement with new development; we are right to expect opposition to affordable housing and growth; and we are prudent to prepare to live in an increasingly unaffordable and exclusionary Canada.
Rural communities from coast to coast to coast are realizing that they need to embrace innovation or embrace obsolescence
Suzanne Martineau, Christopher Jordan-Stevens, Ben Jardin, and Sandi Martin made a presentation to Bracebridge Town Council’s General Planning Committee about the MCLT’s alignment with the District of Muskoka housing and homelessness plan and the Town of Bracebridge Downtown Master Plan.
The Muskoka Community Land Trust has received $45,060 in funding to prepare the Florence Street Micro-Community in Huntsville for social impact investing.
Could land trusts help solve Ontario housing-affordability crisis?
The province is currently home to at least 13 community land trusts — and they’ve already scored some major early wins.
A non-profit agency in Muskoka is taking a different route to build affordable housing. We spoke to Suzanne Martineau, the President of the Muskoka Community Land Trust, on how the organization works and why it could be the future of affordable housing.
Affordable housing can take many forms, but for the team at the Muskoka Community Land Trust (MCLT), the hope is to build high-quality communities that people can afford to live in.
Muskoka Community Land Trust (MCLT) will be reaching out to stakeholders while also requesting the public to provide their input into the development of their strategic plan.