New Economics Foundation
Funding at a glance
Programme: Backing Community-Led Housing
Amount: £83,590 grant
Approved: 2017
Timescale: One year
Status: Funding complete
Research exploring the lack of access to and availability of public land for the development of affordable housing.
Why we funded this project
To understand ways to increase access to and availability of public land for the development of affordable housing and to provide knowledge of where there is land which could be made available for affordable homes.
Strategic purpose
Increased access to land and properties currently not used as homes.
Project description
New Economics Foundation (Nef) researched how the land market provides opportunities for affordable housing. Nef believes that selling off public land is fuelling the affordability crisis and that inflated land values are incentivising the development of poor quality, unaffordable homes. Nef wants to make the case for ways that land can be put to better public use.
Nef explored the lack of access to and availability of public land for the development of affordable housing. This supported Nef’s ambition to instigate up to five new medium or large scale community-led housing developments, providing 5,000 new affordable homes on public land sites due for private sale within five years.
As part of this work Nef launched an interactive website highlighting where public land is available and has also written this easy to follow community guide to help groups to acquire land.
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