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Homes for Oxford - purpose

Homes for Oxford aims to develop community-owned, permanently affordable homes in the city, focusing on sustainability and community cohesion. The initiative brings together various groups and promotes world-class community-led housing developments. With a vision for Irving Project and other areas, it seeks support for financial, legal expertise, grant applications, communications, and community involvement.

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Homes for Oxford - purpose

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  1. Homes for Oxford - purpose • To create a sector of community-owned, genuinely and permanently affordable homes in Oxford. • To use examples of best practise to establish world-class community-led housing developments that address fundamental issues such as affordable housing, sustainability and community cohesion.

  2. Homes for Oxford • Formed in December 2015 to bring together groups trying to build/retrofit homes in city • Oxfordshire Community Land Trust • Oxford Cohousing • Kindling Housing Coop • Happy House • Care Coop (Wohn-pflege-gemeinschaft) • Hoverfly

  3. OCLT Dean Court Project

  4. OCH Stansfeld Proposal

  5. HfO Wolvercote Bid

  6. Kindling

  7. THE MODEL • Land Trust owns the land - has asset lock. • All homes leased: some long leases and some cooperative leases. • Mixed tenure but as many affordable as is viable. • Affordables will have no Right to Buy. • Eco-build; low car use; ‘intentional community’.

  8. Vision for Irving • Purchase by Land Trust for the benefit of local community in perpetuity • Mixed development • Housing and social enterprise space • At least half the homes permanently affordable • Office space more affordable than commercial • Less than 1 car per household • Community hub/hall

  9. Masterplan 2015 by TbD

  10. Our focus • Irving Project • Other land in city • Publicly/institutionally owned • Charity Land • Community-minded/philanthropic landowners • Local policy landscape: • Local Plan/self build • Flexibility around tenure mix and balance of dwellings

  11. How you can help…… • Facebook: Like us! • Just Giving……. aiming to raise £6.5K - give us a fiver! • Time…… we need help with: • Financial and legal expertise • Grant research and applications • Communications/community etc. • Later : community involvement through share offer and governance

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