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🍍 Great news!

Citizens House is shortlisted for The Pineapple for Healthy Homes at the 2026 Pineapples Awards.

Previous winner of a Pineapple Award for Community Engagement in 2023.

Designed by Archio Ltd.

Full shortlist:
www.thedeveloper.live/places/short...

#CommunityLedHousing #Housing

Thanks to @rcka.co.uk for the Small Sites London map: smallsites.london. Citizens House, Sydenham designed by Archio and delivered by London CLT. Get involved: www.londonclt.org/get-involved/

#LondonHousing #SmallSites #AffordableHousing #CommunityLedHousing #Additionality

Scylla Road / New James Court gets Cabinet approval 🎉

12 affordable homes + shared green space in Southwark, in long-term community ownership via London CLT. Thanks @helendennis.bsky.social.

Local? Join the Steering Group info@londonclt.org.

#AffordableHousing #Southwark #CommunityLandTrust

2025 in review - looking ahead to 2026
A big year for community-led housing in London, with progress across six boroughs and national recognition for completed homes.
Read our members’ update 👇
mailchi.mp/londonclt/20...

#AffordableHousing #CommunityLedHousing

The community has come too far — and achieved too much — to give up now.

This is a moment for London’s institutions to align and lead.

@london.gov.uk
#CommunityPower #LondonHousing #AffordableHousing

Stepping away now would mean losing homes London urgently needs, on land that has sat empty for decades.

The costs cited are marginal.
The cost of doing nothing is not.

@london.gov.uk
#AffordableHomes #PublicLand

This is public land. Land that already belongs to Londoners.

Using it for permanently affordable housing is one of the most direct ways to address the housing crisis.
#PublicValue #HousingCrisis
@london.gov.uk

The Cable Street project in Shadwell would turn land that’s been publicly owned and unused for over 50 years into 41 genuinely affordable homes.

Homes shaped with the local community, delivering long-term public benefit.
#CommunityLedHousing #PublicLand @london.gov.uk

London has a choice: 41 affordable homes — or another missed opportunity.

A fully affordable, community-led housing scheme on public land is now at risk. 🧵👇
#AffordableHousing #LondonHousing
@london.gov.uk

Reflecting on a big year at Citizens UK, one of our top highlights has been working on the Cable Street affordable housing development. We’re so grateful for the countless community champions who have led this work 🙌 @londonclt.bsky.social

We're grateful that @london.gov.uk & @tomcopley.bsky.social have been backing this project from the very start.

We're excited to keep working with the GLA, TfL, the local MP, the council & the community to get this underway in 2026 & bring more affordable homes to Londoners. @londonclt.bsky.social

Great progress on Cable Street, Shadwell at a tough time for housing.

🏘️London’s largest Community Land Trust: 🌱41 community-designed Passivhaus homes.

Planning aimed for early 2026. Thanks @london.gov.uk @tomcopley.bsky.social TFL @levittbernstein.bsky.social

#AffordableHousing #CommunityLed

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#CommunityLedHousing #AffordableHousing #CommunityDevelopment #HousingNews

Over 1,000 people gathered at St George’s Cathedral for the South London Citizens Health Justice Assembly – a powerful night of people power! 🙌

Oxleas NHS will work with @citizensuk.org on affordable homes with London CLT & community partners💪

#LondonCLT #CitizensUK #AffordableHousing #SouthLondon

Imagine if all 32 London Boroughs backed just two community-led housing projects and released unused land.

That could create 1,500 genuinely affordable homes - improving neighbourhoods, boosting wellbeing, and building lasting community wealth.

#AffordableHousing #LondonCLT

Lewisham has a proud history of community-led housing. With Citizens House, London CLT continues that legacy, creating affordable homes for local people. Imagine if every borough backed two such projects.

Thanks:

🏡 RUSS (Church Grove)
🏗️ Archio Ltd
🌆 Future of London

#AffordableHousing #LondonCLT

We did it! 🏆

Winner of Best Healthy Homes and Neighbourhoods at the Healthy City Design Awards 2025!

Proud to be recognised for building healthier, happier communities.

📸 from the ceremony below 👇

#HealthyCityDesign #Awards #HealthyHomes #AffordableHousing

70+ members, residents, partners & councillors joined our London CLT AGM + Scylla Rd site tour 🏡
Resident voices led the way 💬 + great presentations from @impurbanhealth.bsky.social @lb-southwark.bsky.social 🎤
Thanks The Green Nunhead for a super venue! 💚 #communitylandtrust #affordablehousing

Affordable housing part-funded by Big Issue up for prestigious architecture award Affordable housing project Citizens House in Lewisham, which is part-funded by Big Issue Invest, is up for RIBA's Neave Brown Award.

🏆 Citizens House by London CLT shortlisted for 2025 RIBA Neave Brown Award 💡

✔With communities.
✔By communities.
✔For communities.

Thanks to @bigissue.com for the feature:

🔗 bigissue.com/news/housing...

#LondonCLT #RIBA #NeaveBrownAward #CommunityLedHousing #AffordableHousing

Rethinking the London Plan: A Call for Affordable, Community-Led Housing

We were very pleased to convene a workshop with London CLT stakeholders to contribute to the Greater London Authority "Towards a New London Plan" consultation.

#communityledhousing #affordablehousing #londonclt #clt

Our latest Housing Outlook finds that more than 1 million children are pushed into poverty by high housing costs. Tackling this should be a central element of the Government’s upcoming Child Poverty Strategy.

Read the full report➡️https://buff.ly/3VnzDq8

Yes, the community land trust model creates genuinely and permanently affordable homes; the price of our homes is linked to average local incomes in perpetuity. A home not an asset.

This 'one-of-a-kind' charity shop offers tools to fix the housing crisis Habitat for Humanity GB's ReStore in Romford promises to be a charity shop version of B&Q offering cheap tools to fix the housing crisis.

This 'one-of-a-kind' charity shop offers tools to fix the housing crisis: 'It's a charity B&Q'

Campaigners and pupils of St Antony's primary school in Newham gather outside the London Legacy Development Corporation's offices in the Olympic Park.

Penny Bernstock & Paul Regan of TELCO make the case for a community-led Housing & Inclusion Zone at the heart of the Olympic Park development

Good to join East London Citizens/TELCO with @pennybernstock.bsky.social to mark planning powers moving from London Legacy Development Corp to host boroughs.
Positive meeting with @rokhsanafiaz.bsky.social re a Housing & Employment Inclusion Zone on the #OlympicPark ie genuinely #affordablehomes! 🏡

*𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆*, join us & East London Citizens to call for genuinely #affordablehomes & a community-led Housing & Inclusion Zone in the Olympic Park development. 🏡🏡🏡
📍2-3pm; Endeavour Square, London E20 1JN
Remember the Olympic "legacy"?!

A good home = foundation of health & a good life.
🏡 Our plans for 16 genuinely & permanently
#affordablehomes with Greenwich Citizens Housing, include a play street & #Passivhaus design by Archio architects.
Read more 👉 www.londonclt.org/susan-road-f...

#communitylandtrust #communityledhousing

Vital findings for community-led housing. Thanks @claudehendrickson.bsky.social @leedscommhomes.bsky.social @nationwidefdtn.bsky.social 👏👏👏

#communitylandtrust #affordablehomes #communityledhousing

‘They look like homes for rich people’: why Britain should look to Europe for its council housing revolution On the continent, stylish, sustainable, community-minded social housing is a given, and nowhere more so than in Spain

This piece reminds us of seeing game-changing municipal support for #affordablehomes in Barcelona.
@rowanmoore.bsky.social highlights Spanish social housing that puts community & climate first. Lessons for the UK!
@clhlondon.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Photo of people celebrating the opening of Citizens House, our affordable homes in Lewisham, in April 2023

Inspired to make change? To take action for genuinely & permanently #affordablehomes? We campaign with
@citizensuk.bsky.social for community-led homes like #CitizensHouse👇
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