Policy Brief: Developing community-led housing
A new policy brief explores the impact local and combined authorities can have in helping to accelerate and enable community-led housing project development.
York researchers and PhD candidates Dr. Graham Gill, Cindy Leung, Rosario Neyra and Izzie Salter have produced a new policy brief "Developing community-led housing" which presents policy implications for local and combined authorities under devolution.
Policy Brief Summary
Driven by non-profit organisations and managed by residents themselves, the development and continuation of community-led housing (CLH) require intensive input of land, financial, intellectual, social, and human resources.
Land acquisition, access to financial support, and residents’ knowledge and skill set for managing a housing project are prerequisites, but also ongoing challenges, for creating and sustaining CLH projects.
Local authorities and umbrella organisations such as housing associations can enable access to the resources required for CLH development through catalysing land policy changes, facilitating networking and knowledge exchange opportunities between stakeholders, and encouraging banks to make favourable loan offers.