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This page is an evolving space for the European Community Land Trust Network and its members to regularly add and update project opportunities. These are headlines intended to give our potential partnerships an idea of where we would like to take our work. Join us to scale up permanently-affordable housing across Europe! Get in touch at [email protected] for more detailed information and project concept notes.
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©CLT Gent
CLTs align incentives and drive more sustainable outcomes in both new build and renovation projects. Pilot projects from our Network are proving how the CLT model can be used to renovate vacant buildings and energy inefficient homes, delivering on climate objectives while safeguarding affordability and preventing displacement.
We are looking for partners to scale up the CLT renovation model beyond the pilot phase, especially to test how it can be combined with best practices in neighborhood and district-level renovation projects.
Join us in building a socially just European Renovation Wave.
Photo from CLT H-Buurt, the first CLT in the Netherlands. ©And The People
CLTs build wider community cohesion and wealth, having positive impacts far beyond their residents. They also provide tangible community assets, such as green spaces and social hubs.
An initial study in the UK found that every ÂŁ1 of public investment in community-led housing generates approximately ÂŁ3.10 in wider social benefit. We are looking for partners who will support us in building on this initial work to quantify this diverse social as a first step to strengthening our delivery of public value.
©Southbank CLT
To increase the delivery of affordable housing, CLTs need catalytic finance aligned with their needs and values. We are currently developing a CLT Financial Playbook in collaboration with the Green Finance Institute, articulating the financial mechanisms most appropriate for CLTs and how they can be implemented.
Now, we need project support to implement these mechanisms, as well as provide investment into them.
Castle Crescent, Closeburn ©Tom Manley Photography, shared with permission from John Gilbert Architects and South of Scotland Community Housing
Housing affects residents’ health and wellbeing, and healthy housing – like CLTs provide – reduces overall health inequalities.
We want to build on this work to conduct a network-wide study of the health and wellbeing benefits of CLT housing in particular, evidencing the impact CLTs have on residents’ health and further improving our practice.
CALICO, a CLT Project with two housing-first homes. ©CLT Brussels.
CLTs give agency to communities, countering the narrative that low-income and marginalized communities – including people experiencing or affected by homelessness – need to be saved by an outsider. Already, people who have recently experienced homelessness participate in and are leaders of CLTs, and CLTs provide housing-first homes. We are looking for support to better understand how CLTs currently empower and include people experiencing homelessness, and enable wider application of CLTs as a solution for those most vulnerable.
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