CLTs in Great Britain

There is a growing CLT movement in Scotland and England. Britain's first national conference on Community Land Trusts was held in Coventry on March 17, 2005, with Mike Brown of Burlington Associates providing the keynote address and leading several workshops.

Two excellent reports on CLT development in Great Britain have recently been published:

Common Ground - for Mutual Home Ownership, published on May 13, 2004, sets out the findings of a fifteen month research project commissioned by CDS Co-operatives, the largest co-operative housing service agency in London and the South of England. The report, prepared by a team of researchers from the New Economics Foundation, concludes that combining a shared equity co-operative with a community land trust “is a robust model that is attractive and urgently needs to be applied to solve the dire lack of low-cost key worker housing.”
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Community Land Trusts and Mutual Housing Models is a major research report produced by the GLA Housing and Homelessness Unit for the Mayor of London. Published in January 19, 2005, this report recommends combining the CLT with limited equity cooperatives to provide affordable housing in London.
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