Sua Hernandez is the Director of Housing Resilience & Executive Administrator at El Sereno Community Land Trust. She’s been working in affordable housing since the late 90s and is an alumni of Occidental College, with a BA in urban and environmental policy. We talk about differences between co-ops, land trusts, and a community development corporation. Sua shares some of the questions ESCLT staff asks themselves to establish and maintain a culture of dignity and autonomy, and why that's important.

Learn more about Community Land Trusts:

https://www.shareable.net/infographic-the-why-how-of-community-land-trusts/

https://groundedsolutions.org/strengthening-neighborhoods/community-land-trusts

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Here’s some of the readings Sua mentioned, use these affiliate links that will support independent bookstores & this podcast:

Howards End: https://bookshop.org/a/9735/9780141182131

Kuxlejal Politics: Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities: https://bookshop.org/a/9735/9781477314470

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