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Promoting Community-Led Housing… 

At people’s assemblies across London throughout 2006/07, London CITIZENS’ membership unanimously voted to make affordable housing – through the ‘Our Homes, Our London’ campaign – a chief focus of our community organising efforts through the 2012 Olympics and beyond. 

Following on from the success of our negociations with the London 2012 bid team back in 2004, London CITIZENS’ our leading housing campaign - for the first ever urban Community Land Trust in the UK - was told that ”a working pilot scheme” somewhere in London before the Games would be crucial to the success of getting land for a CLT on the Olympics site. 

However, London CITIZENS and Citizens:UK’s goal is to build the power of communities who work together for the common good.  Its focus is the development of leadership within our social institutions, and within our local communities.  In accordance with this, our housing campaign is one that agitates for social reform and seeks to create circumstances conducive to community led-developments across the city.  But our city-wide campaign does not seek to directly undertake housing development itself. 

So what do we do…?   We actively support and promote Community-Led Housing wherever we can, and make available to all developers and all interested parties our ideas and our input so that we can help build the homes we deserve.