Collective Ownership has a brand new website. Go to www.collectiveownership.co.uk and explore a fairer housing future, with stable, affordable home controlled by residents.

#CollectiveOwnership has been braving the January weather and visiting properties suggested by member co-ops. This one had 3 self-contained flats in one sale. Perfect for a small housing co-op where residents control their own homes together. www.collectiveownership.co.uk

CDS Co-operatives marks 50 years of innovation in #coop and #communityledhousing! The ongoing stability of CDS shows that with the right support and mentoring, residents can control what matters most about their homes and neighbourhoods. Read history here: www.cds.coop/2025/12/15/5...

Catch up on our occasional updates, check out back issues, subscribe for more: mailchi.mp/eb662cfb2d8a...

Check out the programme for Cooperation Day 2025 - Sunday 13 July, 12-6pm at Cooperation Town Hub, London NW5 4RA. A full day of workshops on housing and all kinds of other co-ops, including the Collective Ownership Society and Gida Housing Co-op Book free here: lu.ma/tj0f030u

The latest Urban Design Group Journal has a piece on giving people control and belonging, without the challenges encountered in traditional approaches to #communityledhousing. We're discussing our new approaches on 14 July here: www.udg.org.uk/events/2025/...

We’re proud to support #CommunityLandTrusts on #WorldCLTDay2025. Now with #CDS as a Registered Provider and the experience offering management services to #housingcoops we help enable communities like #RUSS and #NW3CLT achieve their ambitions for mixed neighbourhoods. www.cds.coop/community-le...

Trellis House Co-op is a newly forming #housingcoop looking for members to live in a beautiful shared house in the West London suburbs. Check out www.collectiveownership.co.uk/become-a-res... if you’d like to join the co-op and for more information. Share with anyone who might be interested!

Mariposa Grove Cohousing is a democratically-governed community in North Oakland including renters and homeowners... A brief note on learnings from the States: www.communityledhousing.london/mariposa-gro...

lovely piece about Hazelmead Cohousing, Bridport by @rowanmoore.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/arch...

The national bodies for CLH worked together to respond to the Government Spending Review consultation in Feb. We're encouraging CLH groups of all kinds to contact their MPs in April, adapting these templates to their group structure and priorities: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...

We have been hosted by CDS Co-operatives www.cds.coop over the past seven years, and from April we will become an integral part of CDS' mission to make community led housing more widespread.

We've been working with CDS to bring together stakeholders from across the social housing sector to explore how co-operation and power sharing between providers and resident communities can work to address key issues the sector is facing.

New Towns need #communityled housing, management, and stewardship! Great work by #CommunityLandTrust Network and UK #Cohousing Network sourcing ideas from a range of experts last week. Different approaches can be nested for maximum impact.

Great to see #RUSS in the Guardian's top 3 architectural highlights for 2024. Well deserved way to wrap up a successful year. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/dec/18/the-best-art-and-architecture-of-2024 #communitylandtrust #cohousing #ukhousing

Great to check the #NPPF and find our comments taken on board! The new definition works for a range of #communityledhousing. Although wordy, it helps LPAs "seek opportunities through policies and decisions, to support small sites to come forward for community-led development for housing" (para 73)

We are because they were. They will be because we are. #cooperatives Ana Aguirre #coophousing

Great news for #E16 #CLT as Newham Cabinet approve the transfer of a small site in Canning Town. Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz described it as "another housing milestone in Newham". It has been a long road! Well done to all for not giving up hope. #thirdtimelucky

London #CommunityLandTrust AGM visiting their Cable Street site, and remembering the famous Battle at one of the great murals of London (up there with Sanford #HousingCoop)

Over 10 million users! We were #2,382,852. Hope to see many more #communityledhousing groups, bodies, advisers, and supporters on here soon.

Looks like a great event by Gida #HousingCoop opposite St Ann's in #Tottenham get on board if you're nearby: www.gidahousing.coop

So nice to speak at the Rural Urban Synthesis Society's completed Church Grove #CommunityLandTrust scheme in Ladywell yesterday.