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Resources

Welcome to Cooperative Housing International’s resources section. In this section you will find up-to-date information from around the world. We aim to give housing coops tools and resources required for their work and to keep you informed on issues affecting housing.

If you have a resource to share please email info@chi.coop.
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Community Land Trusts in England: A Study of an Emerging Typology

The aim of this masters thesis by Dave Smith is to establish an emerging, consistent typology that could be termed an ‘English Community Land Trust’ – one distinct from that of other affordable housing providers; … Read More

Research United Kingdom
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How Scottish Housing Coops Build Communities

A Scottish study, published in 2019, contains case studies demonstrating how housing co-ops in Glasgow and Edinburgh have delivered benefits for Scottish communities and calls on the Scottish government to encourage more of them.  The sector is still very limited, with just 11 registered and several more unregistered housing co-ops in Scotland, compared with 685 across the UK.

Financing and Development United Kingdom
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Rochdale Pioneers and the Coop Principles

This essay does not pretend to be a work of original research or even of comprehensive synthesis and interpretation. It does aim to pull together selected points of view about Rochdale to give readers a convenient point of entry into some complex issues.

Governance Canada
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Co-operative councils share best practices of working with local communities

Find out how local councils in the UK are co-operating with communities to generate more affordable housing and make use of government funding for community-led housing in these various case studies. 

Community United Kingdom
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Building homes, creating communities, changing lives: A strategy for scaling up and maximising impact 2017-2021

Wales needs more homes, particularly homes that are affordable for people on low to middle incomes. Welsh Government has committed to delivering 20,000 affordable homes during the current Welsh Government term. Building … Read More

Financing and Development United Kingdom
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Community-led Housing: a Key Role for Local Authorities

The ‘Community-led Housing: a key Role for Local Authorities’ report gives an introduction to community-led housing in the UK and how it comes into being, including the different types of funding available. It sets out how CLH can help local authorities achieve their strategic priorities and gives examples of how authorities can enable or support it. It also provides sources of further guidance and good practice.  The report is supported by 12 case studies from England, Scotland and Wales.

Financing and Development United Kingdom Report
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Mutuality & accountability in the housing association sector

Mutuality & accountability in the housing association sector is the report of the Mutual Governance:Mutual Outcomes project, set up to explore the value of mutuality in mutual housing associations in the UK. … Read More

Management United Kingdom
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Best Practices and Strategies among the Leading Affordable Housing Developers and Owners

British-American Peer-to-Peer Exchange: Sharing Best Practices and Strategies among the Leading Affordable Housing Developers and Owners The exchange, which was sponsored by the Housing Partnership Network (US) and the National Housing Federation … Read More

Financing and Development United Kingdom
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TEDx – Ecological Co-housing at LILAC Leeds, UK by Paul Chatterton

 Paul Chatterton teaches in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, with interests in campaigning techniques, urban social movements, urban development and how city centres are being privatised and corporatised, … Read More

Financing and Development United Kingdom
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