Resources

What is Community Led Housing?

Co-ops:

A History of Co-operatives in the UK by the Rochdale Pioneers Museum

Community Land Trusts:

Community Land Trusts – Briefing Paper by the House of Commons Library

Co-housing:

What is Cohousing? by Community Led Homes 

Co-operative Councillors Briefing on Community-Led Housing by the Co-operative Party 

Practical Resources for Co-ops

Model Rules for a Housing Co-op by CDS Co-operatives, the Confederation of Co-operative Housing and Co-operatives UK (2014) (please not, CDS are no longer responsible for sponsoring these rules)

GDPR Guidance for housing organisations by National Housing Federation (2018)

Value for Money (VfM) Self-Assessment Hints & Tips by National Housing Federation (2016)

Building Safety Post-Grenfell: A Briefing on proposals for reform of the building safety regulatory system by National Housing Federation (2019)

A Guide to Mutual Home Ownership by CDS Co-operatives (2011)

Longer Reads on Community-Led Housing in the UK

A History of Community Asset Ownership by Steve Wyler, DTA (2009)

Where Will We Live? by James Meek, London Review of Books (2014)

Property, Justice and Reason: Reconnecting the Citizen and State through Community Land Trusts and land reform by Stephen Hill (Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, 2015)

Community Land Trusts in England: The Study of an Emerging Typology by Dave Smith (The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, 2017)

From Co-Ops to Community Land Trusts: Tracing the Historical Evolution and Policy Mobilities of Collaborative Housing Movements by Matthew Thompson (University of Liverpool, 2018)