Grassroots innovations in community-led housing in England: the role and evolution of intermediaries

Lang, Richard; Chatterton, Paul; Mullins, David

doi:10.1080/19463138.2019.1663525

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“…The belief that citizen-led, community-based approaches to community development will result in positive, sustainable development continues to dominate commu-nity planning literature (Dale et al, 2020;Hidalgo et al, 2021;Lang et al, 2020;Westoby et al, 2020). There is a very long history of support for this type of participatory method of development-starting in the 1960s with individuals such as Jacobs (1992) and Arnstein (1969) who argued that communities benefit when they have control over outcomes.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The belief that citizen-led, community-based approaches will result in positive developmental outcomes is persistent across disciplines and issue areas (Dale et al, 2020;Lang et al, 2020;Mathie & Cunningham, 2008;Westoby et al, 2020). Participatory theories and methods emerged in the 1960s in response to failed and/or contested projects undertaken worldwide in the post-World War II era of international development (Arnstein, 1969;Chambers, 1983).…”

Section: Participatory Development and The Right To The Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Creating the Conditions for Climate Resilience: A Community-Based Approach in Canumay East, Philippines

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2021

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People who reside in informal settlements in the Global South are most vulnerable to extreme weather events and their consequences, such as flooding, landslides, and fires. Those located in coastal areas face severe challenges from seasonal and typhoon-induced flooding. Research shows that uncertain land rights exacerbate community vulnerability because residents are under constant threat of eviction by private sector actors or the state. Individual and community upgrading is rarely possible in such a situation. This article focuses on the efforts to secure tenure and upgrade their community by the residents of Sitio Libis, located in Canumay East, City of Valenzuela, Philippines. The study demonstrates that while community-based approaches require skills and capacities of community members, enabling conditions created by government and/or NGOs are required for transformational outcomes. While the people of Sitio Libis did not conceptualize their efforts in terms of climate change adaptation, their success suggests the possibility for smart partnerships among state-civil society/private sector actors to emerge in support of small-scale climate action.

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Section: Participatory Development and The Right To The Citymentioning

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Creating the Conditions for Climate Resilience: A Community-Based Approach in Canumay East, Philippines

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2021

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“…In the absence of such public advisory structures in the Czech Republic, the Prague initiative depended on their social capital to solve specific legal affairs; e.g., the statutes for the Czech umbrella association could only be worked out as there was a specialist in cooperative law in the close relationship circle. By contrast, the more strongly upscaled CLTs in Great Britain additionally dispose of a national networking institution (Lang et al, 2020).…”

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Translocal Mobilization of Housing Commons. The Example of the German Mietshäuser Syndikat

Hölzl

2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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We are currently observing an international trend toward the establishment of non-profit-oriented, collaborative, and self-managed housing models. In this respect, knowledge concerning commoning has been circulating globally with initiatives mutually interacting. This is also true for the Mietshäuser Syndikat, which by now comprises some 171 permanently decommodified houses in Germany and has been transferred to the legal spaces of several neighboring states (Austria, France, Netherlands, and Czech Republic). Against this background, this paper addresses the question of how housing commons such as the Syndikat circulate translocally and what role spatial learning processes and network dynamics play in that regard. Conceptually, the study refers to the spatialities of social movements. Participatory observations at (inter-)national meetings as well as network graph-assisted interviews with key actors of the Syndikat model represent the central methods of the study. The findings illustrate that (1) solidary knowledge transfers via key actors who take on advisory and network functions, (2) open physical, and (3) virtual meeting points facilitate a moderate diffusion and permanent adaptations of the housing commons model. A process of “assembling, dis-assembling, re-assembling along the way” (McCann and Ward, 2012) thus unfolds. However, the findings illustrate that these mechanisms are not strong enough to compensate unequal relations of power and resources—among other in view of local pre-conditions.

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“…Commons" (Lang et al 2020). Dabei wird zwischen Bonding-, Bridging-und Linking-Kapital unterschieden (Putnam 2000).…”

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Netzwerkstrategien von „Housing Commons“ in der Gründungsphase – Das Beispiel der „habiTAT“-Hausprojekte „SchloR“ und „Bikes and Rails“ in Wien

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2022

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Potenziale und Grenzen diskutiert. Zu diesem Zweck nehmen wir den österreichischen Syndikatsverband "habiTAT" und die beiden ersten "habiTAT"-Projekte in Wien "SchloR" und "Bikes and Rails" in den Fokus. Die konzeptuelle Einbettung liefert der Sozialkapitalansatz, der um räumlichkeitsbezogene Elemente sozialer Bewegungen erweitert wird. Die Ergebnisse der Analyse zeigen, dass sich die Nutzung und Ausweitung translokaler Netzwerke als zentrale Praxis der Gemeinschaffenden in der Gründungsphase von "Housing Commons" identifizieren lässt. Damit tragen die Hausprojekte -weit über den eigenen Bedarf hinaus -zur Etablierung eines "commons"-übergreifenden, translokalen Wissens-und Expertennetzwerks bei und können langfristig Denkanstöße zur Repolitisierung der Gemeinnützigkeit in Wien und Österreich liefern.

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Grassroots innovations in community-led housing in England: the role and evolution of intermediaries

Cited by 15 publications

References 54 publications

Creating the Conditions for Climate Resilience: A Community-Based Approach in Canumay East, Philippines

Creating the Conditions for Climate Resilience: A Community-Based Approach in Canumay East, Philippines

Translocal Mobilization of Housing Commons. The Example of the German Mietshäuser Syndikat

Netzwerkstrategien von „Housing Commons“ in der Gründungsphase – Das Beispiel der „habiTAT“-Hausprojekte „SchloR“ und „Bikes and Rails“ in Wien

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