Advancing housing as a human right by creating permanently affordable, resident-controlled housing cooperatives in the East Bay. The Bay Area Community Land Trust is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing affordable, sustainable, resident-controlled cooperative housing. We are a membership organization whose board is elected by and accountable to its membership. Bay Area Community Land Trust is a social justice organization that converts for-profit rental properties to permanently affordable, democratically run, cooperative housing for lower income households in order to foster economic and racial equity.