Community led housing groups and hubs; Middlemarch CLH co-founder; interested in all things to do with community led housing alison.ward@middlemarchclh.co.uk
Exeter, England
Joined July 2020
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Very pleased to have secured a commitment from @michaelgove to scale up the role of @CommLandTrusts (and@commledhousing). We're working with @luhc, @UKCohousing & @CoopHousingUK on how to achieve that. For a glimpse of what that might look like, read communitylandtrusts.org.uk/n…
Devon people! Pls take a few mins to complete the Devon Housing Commission survey on housing challenges you face and your ideas on solutions. The year long study into Devon's housing markets aims to identify the issues, effects & what can be done to help exeter.ac.uk/business/southw…
There's an article on the Devon Housing Commission on the BBC news website bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-de…
The latest Middlemarch podcast is out: middlemarchclh.co.uk/podcast… Colin is in conversation with Peter from Appledore CLT and Karl from Aster Housing. Appledore CLT and Aster Housing collaborated recently to deliver 9 affordable homes for local people on a challenging site in Devon.
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#CitizensHouse in all it’s glory! 11 genuinely and permanently affordable homes. 🎉🍾🥳👏 full thread below 👇
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Fantastic to hear an MP @danny__kruger speak so passionately about #communityledhousing As @Tom_Chance explains the latest report from @CommLandTrusts shows that if community have agency you get better designs, more sustainability, more community facilities, stronger communities – at London, England
This is a great opportunity within an amazing organisation - have a look if you are interested in a new challenge in project management
Join the team supporting the inspiring #communitylandtrust movement in England and Wales!
We're recruiting for an imaginative 4 days/week project manager based from home.
Please share and apply by 9 October.
All details here >> communitylandtrusts.org.uk/w…
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Pls RT
Need to earn some money this summer & do good at the same time?
@OxfordshireCLT need someone to help with their social media for a new #communitusharesoffer
So if you love SM and want to help drop them a DM now!
BBC reports holiday-let homes in Eng up 40% in 3 years. This will surprise exactly no-one in the places that I visit each week where local people are trying to do something for locals needing a home by setting up a community land trust. CLTs need support bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-6…
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City held back by unaffordable #ukhousing, low graduate retention and economically inactive over 50's exeterobserver.org/2022/06/2… #socialhousing
This is problem for community led housing and a drag on the pipeline of CLH homes to the frustration of lots of community groups, making smaller schemes that some communities want unviable too
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Bunker housing are planning amazing things! 👇
Watch our video to find out what being in Bunker Housing Co-op means to us ... youtu.be/Xc_6xbHKnlw via @YouTube
Could you invest to help us build more homes like this?
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@CommLedHousing #communityhousingfund #coops
Amazing work Khaled! If you can support this brilliant local enterprise please do consider it 👇😊
Enjoy reading and support us with even £1 it will make a huge difference in the society. 🙏☺️🎁
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Alison Ward retweeted
So great to hear from @MatthewBrownLab about #communitywealthbuilding and how supporting #communityled is supporting a new #economicmodel.
Its #peoplepoweredchange in action.
Thanks Matthew. Great work.
#communityledhousing @AlisonWardx @PaulKelly1000
Wondering what a community land trust is? Very simple explainer in the CLT network’s new video 👇 youtu.be/7GvdjlrPtDk
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This is always popular on Reddit, so...
Here are all the laws MPs are voting on this week, explained in plain English:
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@nxcare my Ukrainian friend is arriving as a refugee tomorrow Mon 11 April and has tried to book the free seats for her + son from Stansted to Exeter (10.35 Stansted to Victoria, then 1.30 Victoria to Exeter). She’s sent the info but not received the ticket, cld u please check?
Some sobering stats here about overseas ownership of housing in my city. Individual overseas ownership of property in Exeter has risen by more than 350% over the past decade, with the number of titles registered in Jersey increasing nearly tenfold 1/
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No wonder home ownership is out of the question for so many people in the South West. How can people compete? Housing is a human right and should be homes not assets on a balance sheet.