Empowering Local Communities? An International Review of Community Land Trusts

The Ownership of Assets by Place-Based Community Organisations: Political Rationales, Geographies of Social Impact and Future Research Agendas

“…This is particularly the case given the considerable evidence provided by analysis of distinct sub-sectors of asset ownership that highlight the important role of local and national governments in actively intervening and constructing an environment for community assets to be funded and acquired. This is evident in research on community ownership of land and affordable housing in England and Scotland, where there has been key investment in infrastructure bodies and provision of dedicated funding streams (Skerratt, 2011;Moore and McKee, 2012;Moore and Mullins, 2013), although there has been little comparative empirical research conducted on the relationship between community asset owners and different institutional and policy spaces in the context of devolution. Given the apparent divergence in policy trajectories in different countries, as well as geographical differences that may emerge within each jurisdiction of the UK as power is devolved and localist reforms are effected, there is a clear need to understand the different spatial contexts in which community asset ownership operates, particularly given the potential for different rationales, histories and trajectories in the acquisition and ownership of assets.…”

“…This eventually influenced the creation of a specialised Asset Transfer Unit to facilitate the dispersal of assets from the public sector to community organisations, while specialised funding streams from sources such as the Big Lottery Fund and ethical banks such as Triodos and Charity Bank aimed to support ownership agendas. The advent of the 'big society' and the Coalition Government's commitment to localism therefore continued the previous efforts of New Labour in mobilising communities, as reflected by the recent introduction of legislative community rights, including a 'community right to buy' public assets of community value (DCLG, 2011b), and support for greater replication of asset-owning bodies such as community land trusts (Moore and McKee, 2012).…”

Scaling-up or going viral? Comparing self-help housing and community land trust facilitation

“…This paper draws on two separate strands of work conducted on CLTs (Moore and Northcott 2010;Moore, 2012;Moore and McKee, 2012), and self-help housing (Mullins 2010;Mullins et al, 2011a and2011b;Teasdale et al, 2011), pulling together the findings of each to explore the importance and effect of intermediary organisations for forms of community-led housing. The material on self-help housing builds on a series of outputs from research conducted by the Third Sector Research Centre on self-help housing in partnership with Jon Fitzmaurice at Self-HelpHousing.Org and with the Building and Social Housing Foundation (Mullins, 2010;Teasdale et al, 2011;Mullins et al, 2011a).…”

“…Unlike conventional models of shared ownership, covenants are attached to the future use and resale of the home that allow CLTs to control and suppress resale prices in order to ensure individual properties remain affordable. CLTs offer a vehicle through which local people can become engaged in designing solutions to problems in local housing markets and neighbourhoods, and they typically afford prominent roles to local residents in democratic governance structures (Moore and McKee, 2012). Described as a 'largely theoretical model ' in 2006(HM Treasury, 2006, the number of CLTs has grown with more than 100 thought to be in existence and they are now recognised by government as a delivery vehicle not only for housing but for broader agendas of localism and community empowerment (Paterson and Dayson, 2011).…”

Polysemic, Polyvalent and Phatic: A Rough Evolution of Community With Reference to Low Carbon Transitions

“…Regularly, community is also associated with a more sustainable, just and enriched life (Agyeman, 2005;NEF, 2010;Bulkeley and Fuller, 2012). Low carbon communities are also linked to new or alternative collective living arrangements, such as co-housing (Chatterton, 2013(Chatterton, , 2014 or eco-building (Seyfang, 2009;Moore and McKee, 2012;Pickerill, 2016). Usefully, Walker (2011) clusters the various communities invoked in carbon governance as synonymous to: place, network, process, identity, actor or scale.…”