Read & Watch KMCLT
Here is some of the news media that KMCLT has been featured in:
This iconic Kensington Market mural is finally complete — 43 years after it was painted on a dare (October 4, 2025, Toronto Star)
Inside the movement keeping Toronto rent cheap for locals (October 2, 2025, Toronto Today)
Kensington Market non-profit buys second building, reduces rent for tenants (May 26, 2025, City News)
Kensington Market parking lot being converted into 78 affordable housing units (August 12, 2024, City News)
Community group selling bonds so people can invest in the neighbourhood (April 30, 2024, CBC Metro Morning)
Amid little short-term rental enorcement, Toronto community group books room for evidence (December 18, 2023, CTV News)
This Airbnb alternative won’t destroy Canada’s housing market (October 26, 2023, The Breach)
Community Land Trusts: Can they be an answer to the housing crisis? (October 14, 2023, Global News)
‘It’s got grit, it’s got life’: Kensington Market land trust steps up to rescue affordable housing in the heart of the market (March 30, 2021, Toronto Star)
We worked with the University of Toronto to create this docuseries telling the story of how the KMCLT came to be through the University of Toronto’s School of Cities. The first part can be watched below, and the full playlist can be watched on YouTube here︎︎︎
We partnered with About Here Productions Inc. and Tapestry Community Capital to create a video explaining what Land Trusts are, and how they can be financed through Community Bonds. Watch the video below, and check out About Here︎︎︎ and Tapestry︎︎︎ as well!
Our Co-Chair Dominique Russell gave a presentation on the history of the KMCLT from the initial stages to its acquisition of 54-56 Kensington Avenue, focusing specifically on the community activism from which it originates.
Land AcknowledgementWe, as members of the Kensington Market Community Land Trust, are aware that we are a settler organization. Kensington Market sits in the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit (an Anishnaabe people), the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Wendat and Petun Nations, land which is now home to many First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
This land is covered by the Dish With One Spoon wampum belt covenant, an agreement by the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee to share resources equally and peaceably. It is also covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit. As a settler organization concerned with land ownership, we acknowledge that we have broken the treaties. Our work for the well-being of this land must include accountability to our relatives.
More Community Groups
Kensington-Bellwoods Legal Clinic
https://www.kbcls.org/
Toronto Chinatown Land Trust
https://chinatownlandtrust.ca/
Friends of Chinatown Toronto
www.instagram.com/friendsofchinatownto
Our Contact
Mailing Address:
103 Bellevue Avenue,
Toronto, ON, Canada
Email:
info@kmclt.ca
Mailing Address:
103 Bellevue Avenue,
Toronto, ON, Canada
Email:
info@kmclt.ca