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Introduction to community-led housing models

Introduction to community-led housing models. Jo Gooding, National Coordinator, UK Cohousing Network, and Catherine Harrington, National Coordinator, National CLT Network Getting it Built, Newcastle, 18 th October 2013. What is Community-led housing??. Cohousing. Community Land Trust.

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Introduction to community-led housing models

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  1. Introduction to community-led housing models Jo Gooding, National Coordinator, UK Cohousing Network, and Catherine Harrington, National Coordinator, National CLT Network Getting it Built, Newcastle, 18th October 2013

  2. What is Community-led housing?? Cohousing Community Land Trust Development Trust Group self-build Cooperative Tenant Management Organisation Community Gateway Self-help housing

  3. What is community-led housing? • ….it’s about people coming together to find a solution to a housing problem in their area…

  4. What is community-led housing? Not for profit Democratic and open membership structure For community or member benefit Community-led and controlled

  5. What is it about?

  6. What is it about?

  7. What is it about?

  8. The community-led housing sector

  9. Huge potential

  10. Policy levers

  11. Policy levers

  12. Funding available • Start-up funding • Community Led Project Support Fund • Capital funding • Community-led affordable homes programme 2011-2015 • Affordable Homes Guarantee Fund – now open to community-led housing groups • Empty Property Fund • Custom Build Loan Fund

  13. Local authority support

  14. Form Follows Function

  15. Cohousing: Similarities with cooperative housing and Eco-villages • Private homes supplemented by lots of communal facilities • Can be for rent, part ownership , private ownership or MHOS. • Distinct design influences – but no template • Self managed by people who live there • People agree to set of values and aim to live by them • 10 – 40 households, common house and other communal facilities • Mainly CLG, some IPS

  16. Community Land Trusts:Similarities with Development Trusts. Can also be mixed with cohousing and group custom build • Independent community orgs • Open membership people live & work • Permanently affordable housing • Average 10 units • For rent or for sale (mainly leasehold) • Can include other types of asset – shops, pubs, community centres • Mainly CLG, some IPS & Community Interest Company (CIC)

  17. Development TrustsSimilarities with Self Help Housing, Community Land Trusts and Group Custom Build . • Community anchor orgs • Projects span econ, environment & social concerns. • Urban & Rural • Defined local area • From 2 to 230 homes • Mainly for rent! • Mainly CLG, some IPS & Community Interest Company (CIC)

  18. Self Help Housing: Similarities with Development Trusts, CLTs & Homesteading • Local people renovating empty property • long & short term tenancies • 2 to 50 homes • Tenants often people excluded from housing market • IPS, CLG

  19. Cooperative HousingSimilarities with Cohousing, Tenant Management Organisations (TMOs) Self-Build Co-operatives • Members (tenants) democratically manage homes • Some coops own homes, some manage for landlords • Range from 2 to 100’s units • (community Gateway’s 1000’s) • Mainly IPS

  20. Also…… • Eco-villages • Homesteading • Almshouses • Community housing associations • Group self build • Tennant Management Organisations • Tennant Gateways

  21. LILAC – a bespoke approach

  22. What are the limits to these models? • Mainly our lack of confidence • Prescriptive application • Living rent • Compulsory purchase orders

  23. We’re here to help….

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