Category: Blog
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Blog Series: Naked House CLT, London
Naked House’ is a non-profit London-bred solution to unaffordable housing. The concept ensures affordability through minimalism; the Naked House is essentially a well designed ‘shell’ structure built from durable, low cost materials without any of the cost-adding finishings that typically come with off -the-shelf ‘affordable’ housing making them unnecessarily expensive. Under this model the
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Blog Series: East London CLT – St Clement’s Hospital
St Clement’s Hospital is London’s first CLT site. The project will provide 252 new homes, 35% of which will be genuinely affordable homes and will include 58 for ‘social rent’ and 23 community land trust homes priced according to local wages. The project intends for these homes to be built sustainably, with good access to
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Blog Series: UK’s Urban CLT’s – Rural Urban Synthesis Society (Lewisham)
The Rural Urban Synthesis Society, a CLT based in Lewisham, was founded in 2009 and now has over 500 members. Its mission is to reduce its communities’ dependence on fossil fuels, increase food security, encourage biodiversity and provide affordable housing for Londoners through creating charming, low-energy, genuinely affordable homes in sustainable neighborhoods managed by residents.
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Blog Series: UK’s Urban Community Land Trusts.
An Introduction: Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are non-profit organisations established by communities to provide genuinely and permanently affordable, community-controlled housing and other assets such as social enterprises, bakeries and gardens; work or meeting spaces; and green spaces. CLTs provide an important social good in the context of and soaring property and private rental prices which are
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Sheffield CLT Working Group – Join Us!
The Sheffield CLT is a project aimed at working with local residents to turn vacant buildings and plots in the city into genuinely affordable housing for the Sheffield community. If being part of this project interests you or if you would like to learn more about social-enterprise housing models for Sheffield bring your lunch and
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Call for involvement: join Sheffield CLT!
As we are moving forward, we will be soon applying for the support offered by the CLT Network and to other grants available for projects aiming to deliver affordable houses to the community. In order to start this journey we will need to have a strong steering committee to start taking decisions, negotiate with the
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