Protecting The North Gulfport Community From The Multi National Companies

There are over two hundred community land trusts in the USA and one of those is the North Gulfport Community Land Trust or NGCLT for short. When Hurricane Katrina devastated the area with flood waters it all but wiped out many family homes of people that were already struggling to make ends meet. This is where the community formed the Trust to help protect the local people from land developers coming into the area and help bring life back to the area for residents that were there before the disaster.

Instead of big companies coming in and building food and designer shoes stores on the land the idea is for this land to be protected on behalf of the people. Will the NGCLT succeed in doing this? We can only hope, but what we do know is the only way this will happen is through the support of members, sponsorships by small businesses and fund raising activities.

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