Urban Land Committees (Spanish: Comités de Tierras Urbanas, CTUs) are Venezuelan local neighbourhood committees which, in conjunction with Venezuelan Communal Councils, develop land titling in urban areas.
Under a February 2002 decree, the CTUs can apply to a government office for the local "barrio" residents to be given property title for state-owned land they have informally occupied on a long-term basis.
On 4 February 2002 government issued Presidential Decree 1666, providing a legal basis for CTUs to be formed.
[citation needed] Eligibility was however restricted to cases of state-owned land with no competing private claims.
[5] In May 2008 the third national convention of CTUs took place in Maracaibo, with international observers from Argentina and Uruguay and several other organizations.