Kristin King-Ries is an attorney whose practice centers on community land trusts (“CLT”) and other shared equity ownership models. Kristin represents CLTs and other nonprofits on a range of legal matters. She serves as a consultant to the International Center for Community Land Trusts (formerly the Center for CLT Innovation), Agrarian Trust, and the Vermont Law and Graduate School's Center for Agriculture and Food Systems. Kristin was general counsel for Trust Montana from 2017-2021 and she has sat on several nonprofit boards of directors, including the Northwest Community Land Trust Coalition. See below for a list of Kristin’s publications and presentations.

EDUCATION

Washington University Law School, J.D. 1994

• Law Review, Women’s Law Caucus President

Middlebury College, B.A. Cum Laude, Dean’s List, 1988

Licensed in the States of Montana and Washington

PUBLICATIONS

The Preservation Partnership: Municipal Support for CLT Programs Creating Homes That Last, co-author John Emmaus Davis, Policy Focus Report, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, forthcoming

Advocating for Community Land Trusts, https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/journal_of_affordable_housing/affordable-housing-v31no3.pdf

Community Land Trusts: Protecting Affordability and Promoting Equity In Homeownership, Introduction, The Forum in Conversation, 30 J. AFFORDABLE Hous.& CMTY. DEV. L. Comm. Dev. Law 3, p. 393 (2022).

Creative Ways to Finance Agriculture, 195 Shelterforce 20 (Summer 2019).

PRESENTATIONS

Community Land Trusts: Affordable Housing Strategies for Racial and Economic Justice,

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GOxRYzqNR5ja2obRF7PH5Kh60hOaPrpH/view?usp=drive_link, Panelist

American Planners’ Association Planning and Law Division Webinar

March 12, 2024

Rethinking Farmland and Housing Ownership Through An Equity and Justice Lens, Panelist

Annual Land Trust Rally, Portland, OR

September 9, 2023

Rally Panel

Emerging Land Ownership Models

USDA National Agricultural Library Panel, Virtual

September 22, 2022

Community Land Trusts and Housing Cooperatives

Co-operative Professionals Guild Webinar

March 17, 2022

Community Land Trusts: Protecting Affordability & Promoting Equity in Homeownership

ABA Forum on Afford. Housing and Community Development CLE, Virtual

September 15, 2021

Northwest CLT Coalition Annual Gathering, Chelan, WA

CLT Ground Lease 101, Co-Presenter, May 3, 2022

Lessons in Advocacy, Co-Presenter, May 4, 2022

CLTs in the Multifamily Context, Moderator, May 4, 2022

Ignite Advocacy

Northwest CLT Coalition 2021 Annual Gathering, Virtual

May 4, 2021

Innovative Solutions for Attainable Housing

Western Governors Association’s Rural West Initiative, Virtual

March 20, 2020

Legislative Strategies for CLTs

Northwest CLT Coalition Annual Gathering, Virtual

May 5, 2020

Permanent Affordability

Montana Housing Coalition Conference, Billings, MT

June 19, 2019

Mentorship Opportunities for New and Existing CLTs

Northwest CLT Coalition Annual Gathering, Mukilteo, WA

May, 2019

Starting a Statewide Community Land Trust

Northwest CLT Coalition, Bend, OR

May, 2018