Urban CLT Project - Part 1.pdf

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REVIEW OF THE URBAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTS PROJECT SURVEY REPORT

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REVIEW OF THE URBAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTS PROJECT

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SOURCES OF FINANCE

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CONCLUSIONS: SURVEY CONTRIBUTION TO REVIEW OF UCLT AIMS

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CONTENTS HEADLINE FINDINGS .................................................................................................................... 1

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Sources of Funding..................................................................................................................... 23 Revenue Grants.................................................................................................................................23 Capital Funding ................................................................................................................................. 24 Asset transfers .................................................................................................................................. 26

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Introduction

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The survey was administered on-line using the BOS survey package. Basic summary results reports were produced in October 2017 for NCLT and he research team involved in the case studies. This interpretive report is based on further analysis of numerical responses making reference to external and contextual sources and an analysis of write-in responses to identify themes and patterns.

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The UCLT Grant

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The grant was used for a variety of purposes. Respondents were asked to name up to 5 purposes. The most commonly mentioned purposes, (amongst the 39 named) were meetings, consultation and engagement, publicity and recruitment, legal expenses and operational costs. Several projects used some of the grant for project management activities either by employing coordinators or external consultants.

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Immediate Housing Impacts

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This total is significant given that the total existing CLT stock from mainly rural schemes is just over 700. The size of the ULCT proposed developments is generally larger than the rural CLTs with a range from between 10 and 50 homes proposed by each UCLTs in the programme, and an average size of around 27 homes (sometimes on more than one site). This compares with between 6 and 10 homes in a typical rural CLT. The UCLT programme is therefore making a very important contribution to the future growth of the CLT sector in England.

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Tenure mix

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Rents

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income limit of �70.000. Also in London Naked House was planning to apply a household income limit of �90,000 to properties for sale at �230,000.

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Definition of local area

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Is community contribution considered as well as residence?

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Immediate Wider Community Impacts

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The number of UCLTs generating jobs, apprenticeships and volunteering opportunities since June 2014

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Raising the question of gentrification and the idea that there is something we can do about it. Raising the question of why large swathes of the poorest neighbourhood in Hastings have been left derelict and hoarded up for nearly 40 years.(Heart of Hastings CLT)

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Longer Term Impacts Anticipated

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Longer term community impacts

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A final theme related to ambitions for organisational and sector developent and viable community led housing models for the future

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Sources of Funding

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Charitable foundations were easily the most significant source of grant funding accounting for 66% of the total and for most of the larger grants (e.g. �385,000 from Power to Change to Ganby 4 Streets). The largest foundation grant totals came from National Lottery (�828,000; �734,307 through Power to Change, �64,000 through Big Potential and �30,000 through Big Local), Nationwide Foundation (�145,000) and one unnamed Foundation who provided �370,000 to Granby 4 Streets. The next most impotant source was Central Government acounting for 27% of the total, much of this coming via local authorities through 5 grants from the Community Housing Fund (which was another souce of some of the larger grants e.g. �465,000 to Brighton and Hove CLT). �42,000 of the central government total came via the Homes and Communities Agency. Other local authority grants were relatively small scale, 4 were �10,000 of less, the fifth was for �50,000 to Ambition Lawrence Weston. Locality was the main umbrella organisation funder allocating a total of �45,000 between four projects. Citizens UK was another, allocating �17,000 to London CLT; while Coops UK granted �5000 to Heart of Hastings through its Community Economic Development Fund. There was no funding reported from CLT umbrellas and none from housing associations. The other reported sources included BLF Celebrate, `CLT start up (presumably a different source to UCLTP), a local community orgaisation and LUSH charity pot. This experience supports parallel research for Power to Change that argues for the need to streamline the existing unsystematic and fragmented revenue funding support for CLTs and other community�led housing projects (Archer, Harrington and Kear 2017).

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date. A total of just over �2.4million was reported by the 6 projects, with four of them raising in excess of �400,000 and 2 smaller amounts. There was a rather higher amount of capital finance (totalling to �3.7 million) revealed by the following questions which asked about each specific source of capital finance including, banks, building societies, social investors, local authorities, commuity share issues and other crowd funding.

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Leeds Community Homes reported that their community share issuehad been one of their most important impacts to date. The success of the community share offer offered a different vision of how we can create the homes we need in Leeds, through the creation of what we called People Powered Homes. They stated that without the UCLT Programme `It would have been difficult to prepare, launch and run a successful community share offer. They used their UCLT grant for `contribution to costs during 2016 - in particular legal costs, costs of producing share offer document and business plan, launch, promotion and administration of community share offer. When asked about how their wider membership was recruited they stated that the `vast majority are community share investors - who automatically become members.

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The value of supportive local policies cames through in responses from the two Liverpool UCLTs in the survey. Homebaked reported that the City Council `will transfer the freehold of the bakery building for �1 after completion of the shared 4 unit flat above in 2018. Granby 4 Streets reported that the Council had already `transferred 13 longterm empty homes to Granby 4 Streets for �1.00. While not responding to the survey it is known that Middlesbrough CLT also received asset transferred empty homes at �1 from Middlesbrough Council . https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-social-sciences/socialpolicy/SPSW/Housing/2016/P-Impact-Presentation-Asset-Based-Development-Middlesbrough-June9th-2016-dm-june-5.pdf The growing potential for asset transfers is illustrated by the 80% of 15 survey respondents who answered these questions who were expecting asset transfers in the future compared to the 30% with transfers to date.

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The next paragraph refers to the most valued benefits �scoring combines those answering very important and important to give a combined importance ranking).

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In general the greatest importance was placed in national lobbying and support and peer to peer learning. The position with local and regional support including from local authorties was seen as less important while support from housing associations was the weakest.

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in the programme. These write in responses captured more vividly some of the key benefits and types of support that were most effective and what this enabled the UCLTs to achieve:

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Governance

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(for example providing advice and support and housing management services). Two more were considering such a partnership

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surprising finding is that just one housing association representative was identifed across all the boards but it was noted in one other case that `two of our board have held senior positions in HAs.

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The Chairs of the ULCTs are particularly likely to be local residents. This seems important for the local accountability and legitimacy of CLTs and sets them apart from most social and commercial housing providers. 6 are residents of the wider local community, 2 are CLT residents or prospective residents, 2 are independent experts , 2 are local authority persons and there are 2 (unnamed) others.

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We asked respondents how they had managed to achieve such success in membership recruitment. The pie chart below shows the main memebership recruitment methods used across the sample. As locally based organisations we see a considerable emphasis on face to face methods such as holding local events and visting individuals and encouraging voluntary participation (for example through community share subscriptions). These methods account for nearly two thirds of those reported by respondents in an open ended question. The remaining third comprise more formal marketing and communcation strategies (such as newsletters, websites and media)

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while West Ken Gibbs Green Community Homes had secured 587 resident supporters for its antidemolition campaign by `visiting every household.

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predominatly from Charitable Foundations and from Central Government, including via local authorrties through the recent Community Housing Fund.. It is clear that the UCLTP grant provided CLTs with the capacity to pursue other funding opportunities.

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There is clear evidence of an increased community capacity among urban CLTs, including their campaigning capabilities and impact. The level of civil society participation in their membership and governance sets most UCLTs apart from other types of housing body. UCLTs are frequently described as building community understanding of housing issues and giving a sense of hope. Campaigning capabilities are apparent across the case studies but no more so than at West Ken Gibbs Green Community Homes which has seen remarkable success to date in resisting proposed demolitions of social housing. While again this survey is not a primary evidence source on public profile of UCLTs, there can be little doubt that slowly and surely the emergence of the UCLTs is increasing the public profile of the sector. CLTs are no longer likely to be seen as a small scale rural phenomenon but as part of a core civil society response to the dysfunctions of the housing system, successfully challenging destructive practices and actively modelling alternatives that meet community needs by drawing the boundaries well beyond housing production to include community assets and organisation.