European Community Land Trust Network’s Post

The European CLT Network is pleased to announce that we are now an official signatory of the #BuildBetterLives campaign. As reforms in buildings policies are undertaken across Europe following the recent EPBD revision and as the EU seeks to take action on the pan-European housing crisis, now is the time for Europe to adopt a holistic approach. Policymakers now need to underpin climate and environment measures with appropriate social and economic policies that enable communities and citizens across Europe to thrive! European CLT Network members are continuing to roll out CLT projects across Europe and our network stands ready to cooperate with policymakers and the sector to implement community oriented solutions for a Just Transition to a sustainable built environment. https://lnkd.in/e9AMcsFU

Another 16 permanently affordable and sustainable (Passivhaus standard) homes in Greenwich, South London. Congratulations to all involved! Read more below on the project below 👇🏻 ECLTN are working with our members to ensure forerunner projects like this given the full support of EU policies and funding programmes in the near future. #CLT #CommunityLandTrust #NewHousingParadigm

Join us if you can at Halles Saint-Gery, Brussels on 3 September at the 'New Ways of living' exposition for a public debate (FR) on alternative, affordable, accessible and unconventional housing involving our member Community Land Trust Brussels! Reserve your seat via the link below 👇

Ellen MacArthur Foundation recent report ‘Building Prosperity – Unlocking the potential of a nature-positive circular economy for Europe’ highlights that #CommunityLandTrusts (CLT) are a key solution for overcoming market, system, and policy barriers that hinder system wide transformation and an untapped resource for realising a Just Transition. To realise a Just Transition, the report highlights the importance of working towards a circular economy, and focuses on the built environment as the cornerstone of such dynamics. In this context, Community Land Trusts principles of collective land ownership, permanent affordability, and democratic governance, make them effective vehicles for driving the transition to regenerative built environments and neighbourhoods. Thank you to EMF for highlighting the role of CLTs in the #JustTransition. Read more about the report right here: https://lnkd.in/ddnK9RRU

Today, Ursula von der Leyen was confirmed for her second term at the head of the European Commission. With her appointment now confirmed by a strong majority vote, affordable and sustainable housing is well and truly on the European political agenda for the next five years. Earlier today, the now re-elected President pitched as part of her Vision for Europe to the European Parliament that EU policymakers urgently need to address Europe’s housing crisis. To do so, von der Leyen announced the first-ever European Affordable Housing Plan. The action plan will aim to address housing construction, offer technical assistance to cities, and focus on driving public and private investment. A new investment platform, strengthening of cohesion policy to focus on affordable housing, and a change to state aid rules were the key measures of the action plan already disclosed, with more expected later this year. Leading the work will be a yet-to-be-announced Commissioner with a dedicated competency on housing. In addition to the President’s proposals, the Social and Democrats Group at the European Parliament also called for the creation of a specific parliamentary committee dedicated to housing. The European Community Land Trust Network welcomes the clear political commitments to address housing needs sustainably in Europe, as well as a commitment to mobilise reforms and investments to help build what a community needs to thrive. In delivering on these political commitments, the European CLT Network urges Ursula Von der Leyen, the future Commissioner responsible for housing, and the European Parliament, to recognise and integrate community-led development and address inflationary market practices in all forthcoming affordable housing initiatives. https://lnkd.in/eBsp8JP3 #CommunityLandTrust #NewHousingParadigm

Last May, our General Assembly of members elected 4 new Trustees to the European CLT Network Board, joining 3 existing Trustees. Agnieszka (Aga) Biedalak, Sustainability consultant Juliet Can, resident and board member, London CLT Tom Chance, England & Wales Community Land Trust Network Hannah Emery-Wright, Consultant, community-Led Housing practitioner Adrià Garcia i Mateu, XES, Barcelona Tom O'Donnell, Self-Organised Architecture, Ireland Hannelore Verstreken, Van Grond Los - Community Land Trust Leuven This renewed board reflects the evolution and growth in support for the European CLT Network to achieve our collective goals for the future. From all over Europe and with a diverse range of CLT histories as founders, designers, residents, and supporters, our new expanded board will provide strong leadership for the next two years.

Turin leads the way in Italy, with the country's first plans for a Community Land Trust. The European CLT Network is excited to see how this will be progressing!

✅ Putting people first is the key to unlocking and accelerating a just transition in the built environment. Read the Institute for Human Rights and Business’s timely report 'Advancing Just Transitions in the Built Environment'. The report sheds light on examples of positive and negative social impacts of climate action in eight cities from around the world to provide a solid foundation on which decision-makers and investors in particular can apply rights-respecting approaches to the green transition. The green transition cannot happen without a fair and equitable society with human rights at its core. Community Land Trusts all over Europe are working to ensure people in need can more easily exercise the right to affordable and sustainable housing. In the framework of this absolutely necessary green transition, the report highlights both the effects decarbonisation is having on the inequality crisis, as well as the enormous opportunity for social and economic innovation in the form of climate action as a solution for people and planet. 📚 Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/dxRKfyKF

🎂Today, the European CLT Network is celebrating its first anniversary! 🥇 🌐 Our network now represents 15 members and over 350 CLTs from across Europe, and is continuing to grow as we support more and more diverse community-led initiatives! 🌿🏆 These green shoots of growth for community led development in Europe is down to the hard work of CLT trailblazers. Our first year of successes include an increase in delivery of inclusive, affordable, and sustainable homes for communities that need them; new types of project relating to gender inclusivity and rurality; a first successful all-member, in-person general meeting in Berlin; and vocal EU-level support for community-led responses to the housing crisis. 📣 Our network is positive for the year ahead as we continue to continue to take action to scale-up CLTs is new and existing locations through participation, partnership, projects, and advocacy to policymakers at levels. 🏡 Following the 🇪🇺 elections, our network is optimistic for the year ahead with affordable and sustainable housing a key topic to find constructive EU-level consensus on in this new political term. We hope to see a clear majority that chooses to #VoteNewHousingParadigm and to embrace community-led housing as part of the backbone of national housing systems moving forward. 📃 Our mission continues to be to enable the growth of CLTs across Europe and support them to maximise their long-term social and environmental impact. The European CLT Network and its members will continue to work hard to help realise this vision. 🤩 ✏️ Please reach out if you are a CLT initiative or wish to support or cooperate with our network towards this goal! 🤝 https://www.clteurope.org/ Our thanks go to the Laudes Foundation for their support and belief in our network. Alice Haugh James Drinkwater