Transcript What is community-led housing?

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
What is Community-led housing??
Cohousing
Community
Land Trust
Development
Trust
Group selfbuild
Cooperative
Tenant
Management
Organisation
Self-help
housing
Community
Gateway
What is community-led housing?
….it’s about people coming together to find a
solution to a housing problem in their area…
What is community-led housing?
Not for profit
Democratic and open
membership structure
For community or member
benefit
Community-led and
controlled
What is it about?
What is it about?
What is it about?
The community-led housing sector
Huge potential
Policy levers
Policy levers
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
Local authority support
Form Follows Function
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
Community Land Trusts:
Similarities with Development Trusts. Can also be mixed with
cohousing and group custom build
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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)
Development Trusts
Similarities with Self Help Housing, Community Land Trusts and Group
Custom Build
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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)
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
Cooperative Housing
Similarities 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
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Eco-villages
Homesteading
Almshouses
Community housing associations
Group self build
Tennant Management Organisations
Tennant Gateways
LILAC – a bespoke approach
What are the limits to these models?
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Mainly our lack of confidence
Prescriptive application
Living rent
Compulsory purchase orders
We’re here to help….