Consultation on community ownership

摘要

The government is considering the use of an experimental form of community ownership to deliver more affordable housing, writes Joey Gardiner. Iain Wright, junior housing minister (pictured), announced that the communities department would issue a consultation document in the summer on options for developing community land trusts (CLTs). CLTs are intended to make housing more affordable by -subtracting the land values from the cost of homes. The government in committed to building 70,000 affordable homes a year by 2011.