Allison Needles: What is a Community Land Trust? And could one help with Tacoma's homelessness crisis? News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 12/18/2020 Allison Needles, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.) Dec. 18—When Tacoma Housing Now took over vacant Gault Middle School in November to shelter unhoused people, the action came with a list of demands. The most prominent of them insisted on making Gault, which has sat vacant for a decade, part of a Community Land Trust, also called a CLT. That same demand fueled the housing advocacy group to block traffic and pitch a tent in the middle of the intersection on Pacific Avenue and 15th Street on Dec. 8.