European Community Land Trust Network

Some good news to end the week! Delighted that the South of Scotland Community Housing team won the "Outstanding Contribution" award at this year's Scottish Empty Homes Awards. Working in support of community organisations, the team has shown great commitment to prioritising the retrofit and reuse of long-term empty homes and buildings to provide much needed locally affordable homes in community ownership. Thanks to everyone who has worked in partnership with SOSCH to help enable delivery and Scottish Empty Homes Partnership. Evie Copland CIHCM Annabel Pidgeon Jennifer Challinor Jamie Little Donna Bogdanovic CIHCM Jane Morrison-Ross Garry Legg Dumfries and Galloway Council Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway Borders Community Action Gary Hartin Sam Stewart Brian Robson lisa Bullen Paul McLennan European Community Land Trust Network Community Land Scotland John Gilbert Architects Collective Architecture Hazel Smith Midsteeple Quarter Chris Dalglish Morgan Eller M.Sc. Caroline Part Madhu Satsangi Tahmina Nizam Homes for Good Susan Aktemel Oak Foundation Nationwide Foundation

🟢 Hastings Commons wins Gold at the World Habitat Awards further strengthening recognition for Community Land Trusts Hastings Commons’ Gold World Habitat Award builds on much recent recognition of the impact of Community Land Trusts. From UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) to the European Union, CLTs are gaining prominence, featured in global reports, highlighted as best practice, and endorsed by key institutions. Policymakers across Europe - take note! CLTs offer a community-led approach to deliver much needed housing supply whilst prioritising long-term affordability and sustainability. “Ensuring access to social and affordable housing for vulnerable people is a priority. Community-based innovative initiatives, like the Brussels Community Land Trust Calico project, are an example of how to achieve this while strengthening local communities. ” Director-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion at the European Commission, following his recent visit the Calico CLT project in Brussels. 🏡 Read more about the visit here: https://lnkd.in/eWD69wJm 📖 Find out more in ECLTN’s News & Insights: https://lnkd.in/eDuFQfTA

🎬Bravo to our Irish member Self Organised Architecture for their film -Reimagining Elderhood - diving into ageing, architecture and community. - What kind of places do we need to live well as we age, and how can our neighbourhoods be adapted to support ageing well? - Can we take steps in mid-life to imagine the places we’d like to live in as we age, and to work together to create them? - How can architects be ‘agents of change’ and facilitators of new approaches and thinking about how we live? ▶️ Watch the full film now on their website now: https://lnkd.in/eAAytxyX

Through the Upcycling Trust project, European CLTs are working together to support energy renovation while safeguarding access to affordable housing. Attend the project's conference to discover the Upcycling Trust model and learn how policymakers and practitioners can scale up innovative local solutions for housing affordability and energy poverty. More information and registration below!

Community-led housing is part of the solution to the housing crisis. Ireland is currently looking at different models, including #CommunityLandTrusts, to promote permanent affordability in housing. Cork Community Land Trust is pioneering this model and will become an inspiration to other community-led initiatives across Europe. European Community Land Trust Network International Center for Community Land Trusts Housing Europe

[Conference] Upcycling Trust - an innovative solution to support energy renovation while safeguarding access to affordable housing 1st April, 14:00-17:00 Ghent, City Hall  Full speaker lineup to be announced soon! 📅 Registrations: https://lnkd.in/ejDnygbY 👉 More infos: https://lnkd.in/e2pfNuuG Upcycling Trust partners: Community Land Trust CLT Gent, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Self Organised Architecture, Cork Community Land Trust, Cork City Council - Comhairle Cathrach Chorcaí, Rennes Ville et Métropole, HABITER2030, Ville de Lille, Lille Métropole Habitat, Métropole Européenne de Lille (MEL) The Upcycling Trust project is financed by the Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) programme of the European Union.

Last Thursday we held a session exploring Community-led housing and placemaking in New Towns alongside UK Cohousing Network and Nationwide Foundation. This brought together a cross-sector group of community housing enablers, developers, planners, designers, Homes England and government officials to craft a clear vision and actionable recommendations for the New Towns Taskforce, ensuring community-led housing plays a central role in national policy. This session and its recommendations will feed into a paper that we will publish in the spring all about Community-led Stewardship in New Towns. In the meantime, read our recent research about Community-led place stewardship on large development sites (with Dark Matter Labs and European Community Land Trust Network) https://lnkd.in/eZXziCkH This event runs alongside our continual lobbying and policy work to make sure that CLTs and other kinds of community-led development and stewardship projects have the support, funding, planning and regulatory reforms needed to significantly contribute to our government's ambitious housing targets. Take a look at our proposals here: https://lnkd.in/eK23VBPu Thank you to everyone who joined us, and especially to our partners who co-organised this event with us including Owen Jarvis and Steve Lee, Coin Street for hosting us in their iconic community space, all our speakers, and Nationwide Foundation for their continued support and generosity. Considerate Urbanism JTP LLP THE URBED Trust Urban&Civic Summix Vistry Group Welbeck Land Limited Stories Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Legal & General Resonance Investments, LLC Local Trust Locality Plunkett UK Power to Change Wrigleys Solicitors Anthony Collins community led housing london Community Stewardship Solutions Middlemarch Community Led Housing CIC Chichester Community Development Trust

📃 In the latest #BuildBetterLives blog, the spotlight is on the Upcycling Trust - a solution to both Europe's housing affordability AND climate challenges. By applying the Community Land Trust model to existing buildings, this initiative is helping vulnerable homeowners meet new EU energy requirements while maintaining housing security. The project is already making waves in Cork, Ghent, Lille, Rennes, and Brussels, targeting support for 150 families. It's not just about renovation – it's about creating permanently affordable housing without new construction. The CLT model provides comprehensive support throughout the renovation process while protecting residents from "renoviction." Check it out here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eVyR4VA4

🤔🏘️ How to house Europe? In our existing buildings! Sign the European Citizens Initiative now! 👇 🎯🏙️ Over and over our research shows that Europe needs to focus on revitalizing existing building stocks to enable meeting climate targets. We need to see a shift of resources away from new construction, which often does not meet the needs of the people but serves economic interests of financial players. If YOU want to see strong measures to activate and revitalize existing buildings, then sign this new European Citizens Initiative now! I just signed. It only takes a passport and 2 minutes - do it now! 🏗️👷♀️ HouseEurope! wants to create incentives that make the renovation and transformation of existing buildings the new norm and a common path. This will boost the renovation market and give new value to what is already there. The goal is to preserve homes and communities, ensure a fairer and more local building industry, save energy and resources, and preserve our memories and stories. Because the demolition of existing buildings is as outdated as food waste, animal testing, fast fashion and single-use plastics. In order to achieve these objectives, we demand a right to reuse for existing buildings based on three key pillars: (I) tax reductions for renovation works and reused materials, (II) fair rules to assess both potentials and risks of existing buildings, and (III) new values for the embedded CO2 in existing structures. ‼️👉 Sign now via https://lnkd.in/di-3YFCp And learn more via the official website of the initiative: https://lnkd.in/dW2ejeBw #HouseEurope #RetrofitFirst #SustainableConstruction #WholeLifeCarbon

Delivering permanently affordable and sustainable housing to those most in need through deep renovation is an essential part of addressing Europe's housing and climate crises. Using the CLT approach to deliver affordable energy renovation shows what can be done with the right principles that support a #JustTransition. Stay tuned for more on that soon!⏳👀 The European CLT Network hopes the new European Parliament Special Committee on #Housing agrees that Europe needs to strengthen its commitments to #BuildBetterLives using renovation in response to Europe's Housing Crisis.