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Find out about community-led housing and how communities can get involved.
Community-led housing is where the local community takes the lead in developing, managing and/or owning affordable housing in their own area for the local community.
Community-led housing has five main features:
The Scarborough area has been allocated £1.86 million from the government to support the development of community-led housing. Work is ongoing with a number of local communities and other organisations to bring forward community-led housing initiatives.
There are three main ways in which community-led groups can become involved.
A local authority, landowner, housing association or local developer wants to provide housing that incorporates a community-led element. They access technical expertise to recruit founder members from within the community and support them to take over ownership and/or management of the homes. In this scenario, it is essential that all the community-led criteria are met to ensure genuine community benefit and involvement.
Existing community-based organisations with local roots decide to provide housing in addition to their current activities, accessing technical expertise to help them understand this new area of work.
New community-led groups form in response to local housing need, or to deliver their own homes. They sometimes emerge from existing networks such as neighbourhood forums and parish councils. They access technical expertise to support the development and realisation of their ideas.
The criteria for supporting community-led housing is based on the following basic principles:
We have published criteria for the allocation of funding to groups, which includes community development set-up funding, feasibility funding and development funding. You can see the criteria in our community housing fund grant policy (pdf / 73 KB).
We have supported a number of groups with community development set-up funding and feasibility funding to enable them to start working on the development of a community-led housing scheme.