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Up one levelMinister’s visit to New Cut Housing Co-operative
Cabinet Minister, Tessa Jowell MP, visited New Cut Housing Co-operative in South London on 19 January.
Please keep in touch with neighbours during the cold weather
One of the good things about co-operative housing is the supportive communities which co-ops develop. This shows in the mutual help and support which neighbours give to each other. Keeping in touch with elderly, disabled or vulnerable neighbours during this cold weather, which looks as if it could be the harshest for over 20 years, is particularly important.
The international co-operative housing sector has a new President!
CDS Co-operatives is pleased to announce that our executive director, David Rodgers, has been elected as President of the Housing Sector of the International Co-operative Alliance.
Commission on Co-operative and Mutual Housing report – ‘Bringing Democracy Home’
The CCMH have launched their findings into the UK co-operative and mutual housing sector in their report ‘Bringing Democracy Home’ at an event at the House of Commons, sponsored by The Co-operative Bank, on the 24th of November.
Shelter promotes house building alternatives in its publication ‘Ground Breaking: New ideas on housing delivery’
David Rodgers, Executive Director of CDS Co-operatives, has contributed an article to a report published by the charity Shelter promoting different ways to increase the development of affordable housing.
Keeping control of our lives - Mutual retirement housing for older people
As we get older our homes are often no longer suitable i.e. too many stairs, expensive to heat etc. Loneliness and isolation can also be big problems. Dealing with repairs and maintenance can become a heavy burden. Mutual Retirement Housing would remove these worries and provide residents with a better quality of life.
Commission on Co-operative and Mutual Housing - call for evidence
Launched in 2008, the Commission on Co-operative & Mutual Housing will independently research the cooperative and mutual housing sector, exploring its potential benefits, shortcomings and models, drawing conclusions about any current relevance and applicability of the sector, and promoting and publicising workable and desirable models that fit the needs of current and future housing, community and third sector strategies’.
Co-operative Party releases new document on Mutual Home Ownership
The Co-operative Party have launched a major new policy document that could make a new form of home ownership available to thousands of people.
Independent commission to study housing co-operatives
The Commission on Co-operative and Mutual Housing was launched in June 2008 and will deliver its findings in November 2009
Camden scheme opened
Our latest development in West Hampstead, North London, celebrated its official opening in June 2008.
Lord Graham of Edmonton PC tables amendment to define a Community Land Trust
A senior Labour and Co-operative Peer, Lord Graham of Edmonton PC, has tabled an amendment to the Housing and Regeneration Bill that is currently before Parliament to legally define the nature of a community land trust.
Audit Commission gives CDS one star for service
CDS Co-operatives is providing a fair (one star) service with promising prospects for improvement. That is the conclusion of the Audit Commission following its inspection of our services in January 2006.
Common Ground - for Mutual Home Ownership
CDS Co-operatives and the New Economics Foundation have jointly published a report which recommends the establishment of shared equity co-operatives to solve the housing crisis faced by people on low to moderate incomes who are priced out of the housing market in London and other high cost housing areas.
Key report to the Mayor of London backs mutual solution for affordable housing
A major research report commissioned by the Mayor of London has recommended the adoption of a new mutual model to provide affordable housing in London. The report “Community Land Trusts and Mutual Housing Models” is a research report for Ken Livingstone, produced by the GLA Housing and Homelessness Unit