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Community land trusts in England: from movement to model
17 October 2024, 6:00 pm鈥�9:00 pm
Join Tom Moore in our first instalment of our Bartlett School of Planning Public Lecture Series.
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Prof Nick Gallent
The role of community land trusts (CLTs) in providing affordable housing has grown in the last decade. Originating in the USA, CLTs respond to problems of housing shortage, affordability, and community disempowerment. CLTs hold land in trust and apply restrictions to resale values and rents that challenge transactional, market-based logics that characterise private housing markets. This paper will assess the growth and development of CLTs in England, reflecting on processes of institutionalisation, the formation and sustainability of enabling policy and support mechanisms, and challenges of embedding alternative approaches to housing production and consumption. This analysis will reveal the significant potential of this activity to empower under-served communities and resolve housing issues, but will highlight its fragility and the constraints that communities and advocacy organisations encounter when scaling up localised initiatives.
About the Speaker
Dr Tom Moore
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Planning at University of Liverpool
His research interests lie in two areas: citizen and community participation in the planning and development of the built environment, and the relationship between housing and experiences of inequality and injustice. His work on community-led housing has brought these two areas together, exploring the growth and development of community-led housing through national studies and global comparisons, and use of theories of place attachment and citizen participation. In recent years, he has led research funded by the ESRC, Northern Ireland Housing Executive, World Habitat, the Nationwide Foundation, the Community Land Trust Network, and Natural England. Tom is an Editor-in-Chief of the聽Housing and Society聽journal and has published work on community land trusts in the Journal of Rural Studies, the聽International Journal of Housing Policy聽补苍诲听Housing Studies.听