Affordable Housing Campaign

At peoples assemblies across London throughout 2006/07, our membership unanimously voted to make affordable housing – through the ‘Our Homes, Our London’ campaign – a chief focus of community organising efforts through the 2012 Olympics and beyond. As such, in May 2007, London CITIZENS established the East London Citizens Community Land Trust as an Industrial/Provident Society regulated by the Financial Services Authority. We are now campaigning to establish the capital’s first Community Land Trust and to set a precedent for community-owned, community-orientated, perpetually affordable housing across the capital. The project is part of a pioneering new effort in Britain to provide genuinely innovative, affordable, sustainable, co-operative housing through the model of At peoples assemblies across London throughout 2006/07, our membership unanimously voted to make affordable housing – through the ‘Our Homes, Our London’ campaign – a chief focus of community organising efforts through the 2012 Olympics and beyond. As such, in May 2007, London CITIZENS established the East London Citizens Community Land Trust as an Industrial/Provident Society regulated by the Financial Services Authority. We are now campaigning to establish the capital’s first Community Land Trust and to set a precedent for community-owned, community-orientated, perpetually affordable housing across the capital.