Boost For Community Led Housing Schemes

A scheme is underway to give community led housing schemes a boost in an effort to demonstrate how this can become a viable means of delivering more homes. Locality has selected 22 community groups around England for specialist help to start up their own community-led housing projects as part of a new programme to encourage communities to build housing for themselves.  All over the country communities are quietly “rebelling” against the housing crisis by building their own, Locality says. Through the new Early Stage Support programme, the organisation hopes to show that communities building their own housing is a viable, mainstream option to help beat the housing crisis and provide much-needed quality, affordable housing for neighbourhoods in need. Read more on the Housing Excellence website.