Community-led housing schemes can and do involve a range of tenures that meet different local housing needs and affordability targets. These can include:
- Renting, including social rent and affordable rent, let at between Local Housing Allowance (LHA) levels and 80% of a market rent
- Mutual home ownership and co-operative ownership and rental
- Intermediate housing, including shared ownership, shared equity and discounted market sale
- Market homes, for example to increase the options for older people downsizing
Many community-led schemes contain a mix of tenures, ensuring that they benefit a range of community housing needs. These include:
- Households on local authority housing registers and in housing need
- Households that cannot afford open market home ownership
- Children of local residents who want to stay in their home town
- Older people wanting to move nearer to support networks, downsizing or living in communities that provide mutual support
- Younger people and care leavers
- Unemployed people getting training opportunities as well as housing
- Vulnerable people needing support or who might find holding down a tenancy challenging
- People on low incomes but also people who have assets to contribute to development costs
Case study examples of community-led schemes that meet one or more of these housing needs can be found throughout the Toolkit. A full list can be found in About the Toolkit
Last updated in April 2018
