Property News · October 26, 2016

Our society has lost control of housing – here's how to get it back


The housing market works for neither renters nor homeowners, but community-led schemes and keeping land public could helpWhen community action is matched with local democratic powers we can halt big developers building second homes for wealthy visitors – as the resident-led St Ives neighbourhood plan has shown – and boost affordable developments that meet the needs of local people – as proposed by the StartHaringey group in north London.At the New Economics Foundation we’re working on scaling up the possibilities for community-led housing. We are furthering the case for large scale, democratically run social housing models, such as renters cooperatives, and the rolling out of ownership models that offer long term security but with less debt, such as community land trust homes and mutual home ownership schemes. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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