1. Community-led housing: What are your options?
Tom Chance, Head of Grants and Development
National CLT Network

2. What’s community-led housing?
This
Not this!

3. What’s community-led housing?
Community integrally involved throughout the process.
Community owns, manages and/or stewards homes for the long term.
Benefits to the community are defined and protected in perpetuity.

4. So-called models Cohousing Community Land Trusts Cooperatives
Cohousing communities are created and run by their residents. Each household has a self-contained, private home but residents come together to manage their community and share activities. Cohousing is a way of combating the alienation and isolation many experience today, recreating the neighbourly support of the past.
Cohousing
Community Land Trusts
Cooperatives
Self/custom build
Self-help

5. More models Cohousing Community Land Trusts Cooperatives
Community Land Trusts (CLTs) enable ordinary people to develop and manage homes as well as other assets important to that community, like community enterprises, food growing or workspaces. The CLT’s main task is to make sure these homes are genuinely affordable, based on what people actually earn in their area, not just for now but for every future occupier.
Cohousing
Community Land Trusts
Cooperatives
Self/custom build
Self-help

6. We don’t like “models” Cohousing Community Land Trusts Cooperatives
Cooperative and mutual housing has a community membership comprising the residents and sometimes other local community members. They democratically control the housing organisation which can result in benefits for members such as a better service and new skills.
Cohousing
Community Land Trusts
Cooperatives
Self/custom build
Self-help

7. Maybe components Cohousing Community Land Trusts Cooperatives
All local authorities have a duty to maintain a register of individuals and groups interested in building or commissioning their own homes, and to provide enough permissioned plots to meet that demand. Forming people into CLH groups can help to organise and develop their projects.
Cohousing
Community Land Trusts
Cooperatives
Self/custom build
Self-help

8. Or approaches Cohousing Community Land Trusts Cooperatives
“Self-Help Housing” involves groups of local people bringing back into use empty properties. Groups often involve people who can’t afford to buy or rent their own home, and who are unlikely to get a tenancy from a local authority or a housing association.
Cohousing
Community Land Trusts
Cooperatives
Self/custom build
Self-help

9. Not to mention “products”
Social rent
Affordable rent
Living rent
Private rent
Other rent policies
Shared ownership
Discount market sale
Resale price covenant
Shared equity
Mutual home ownership

10. A bit of everything Bridport Cohousing CLT (Incorporated as a co-op)
Planning permission granted last Feb, on site this spring.

11. What else can you aim for?
“permanently affordable homes”
"high environmental standards"
"green spaces, allotments and orchards"
"renewable energy supplies"
"a more sustainable future for our community"

12. Routes to CLH delivery
Who starts it?
Who builds it?
Who manages it?

13. Routes to CLH delivery - 1
Who starts it? A new group
An existing community organisation
Your council, a housing association or a developer

14. Routes to CLH delivery - 2
Who builds it? Self-build/renovation
Self finish
Custom build
Contractor
Developer

15. Routes to CLH delivery - 3
Who manages it? Residents (e.g. as a co-op)
A secondary co-op / community organisation
A managing agent
A local housing association

16. What do you want to do?

17. Making it happen
Group
Plan
Site
Live
Build

18. Thanks. Get in touch. National CLT Network
Web:
Twitter: @community_land
Facebook: Community Land Trusts – National CLT Network
Tom Chance
Head of Grants and Development