More than 1.2 billion people currently live in informal settlements worldwide, and that number is projected to grow to three billion by 2050. Conventional responses too often deliver public investment straight into the hands of speculators, displacing the very residents they were meant to help. The International Center for Community Land Trusts, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), and World Habitat invite you to a conversation on the community land trust as a tool for transforming self-built informal settlements without displacing the people who live there. The session previews the upcoming policy brief, “CLTs: A Tool to Transform Informal Settlements to the Benefit of Resident Communities.” Drawing on the Caño Martín Peña CLT in Puerto Rico and emerging initiatives elsewhere in the Global South, this policy brief provides an overview of how CLTs can secure tenure and enable upgrading of informal settlements, and describes both the benefits to and challenges of implementation. The discussion is designed for public officials, CLT practitioners, community activists, and researchers working on land tenure and informal settlements around the world. The event will be conducted in English, with live captions available in 60+ languages.