Guide to the different approaches Jo Gooding National Coordinator, UK Cohousing Network
Dec 24, 2015
Cohousing: 17 built, 60 in development across UK
• Private homes & communal facilities• Any tenure (incl Mutual Home Ownership)• Can happen in existing streets, new build, property conversation• Design influences –no template• Self managed by residents• Sustainability key (takes lots different forms)• Typically 10 – 50 households
Cooperative Housing
• 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)
Development Trusts100 organisations managing community housing.
• Urban & Rural• Defined local area• From 2 to 230 homes• Mainly for rent!
Community Land Trusts:30 projects completed. 125 in development.
• Open membership people live & work • Permanently affordable housing • For rent or for sale (mainly leasehold)• Can include other types of asset – shops, pubs• Mainly CLG, some IPS & Community etc
Self Help Housing: Approximately 100 projects in England.
• Local people renovating empty property • long & short term tenancies• 2 to 50 homes• Tenants SHH excluded from housing market
Your CLH address book (1)
Community housing managed/owned by residents:• Confederation of Cooperative Housing www.cch.coop• UK Cohousing Network www.cohousing.org.uk• Community Gateway Association www.communitygateway.co.uk• Radical Routes www.radicalroutes.org.uk • National Federation of Tenant Management Organisations
www.nftmo.com• Eco Village Network – Europe www.gen-europe.org
Your CLH address book (2)
Housing owned/managed by the widercommunity:• Community Land Trust Network www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk• Locality www.locality.org.uk • Self Help Housing www.self-help-housing.org/
Self Build• National Self Build Association www.nasba.org.uk• Self Build Portal www.selfbuildportal.org.uk/• Community Self Build Agency www.communityselfbuildagency.org.uk