Resources Archive

Nic Bliss:  2017

Mutuality and accountability in the housing association sector is a report on the Mutual Governance – Mutual Outcomes project – a research review working with 7 mutual housing associations and the University of Birmingham.   Download report here.

Nic Bliss:  2017

CCH has worked with communities, local authorities and housing associations to develop new co-operative and community-led housing schemes. This basic guide for those interested in exploring development of new co‑operative and community-led homes (eg. communities, local authorities, housing associations, housing co-ops and others) is available for download here.

The evidence base for this document can be found here.

Nic Bliss:  2017

Examples of co-operative and community-led housing schemes in England and Wales.

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Blase Lambert: 2016

The aim of this guidance is to give committees, co-op members and service providers an understanding of long term finance, including planning, the regulators expectations, long term asset management, and the assumptions co-ops may need to make in planning long term finance. For those co-ops who are Registered Providers, it is a regulatory requirement that co-op’s approve a financial framework, reviewing it periodically.

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Nic Bliss and Blase Lambert: 2016

Investing in Involvement provides an accessible framework for tenants and employees in landlords to identify the benefits deriving from involving tenants, service users and other stakeholders. It is about tenants and employees in landlords producing Investing in Involvement Statements that state the resources used and outcomes generated from involvement activities.

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Blase Lambert: circa 2010

The Commission’s final report on Cooperative and Mutual Housing (Bringing Democracy Home) highlighted the need for consideration of the role that cooperative and mutual housing could play in the national housing strategy. The Finance Group was established to analyse existing financial models for developing cooperative and mutual housing and identify routes and models for financing future schemes. Financing Co-operative and Mutual Housing sets out that analysis before introducing potential warehousing solutions to deliver volume development of new co-operative and mutual housing schemes through partnership working with local authorities and developer housing associations.

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Commission on Co-operative and Mutual Housing: 2009

In 2009, the independent Commission for Co-operative and Mutual Housing, set up to analyse the sector and make recommendations for its expansion, concluded that “The UK needs to bring co-operative housing options into our national housing policies”. With research carried out by the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Urban and Regional Studies and the Human City Institute, the Commission found that Co-operative and Mutual Housing provided an alternative not just to state provision of housing but also to market provision. The report calls for existing funding streams to be realigned to support the expansion of the co-operative and mutual housing sector, and makes suggestions for actions by local councils to initiate a co-operative and mutual housing sector in their areas, and how housing associations can offer ongoing support.

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David Rodgers: 2009 Published by The Co-operative Party

Amid the credit crunch and ensuing housing crisis, New Foundations outlines a new model of mutual home ownership that can create permanently affordable intermediate market homes.  This new model separates the cost of the land from the purchase price, by taking it out of the marketplace through a Community Land Trust. It ensures affordability through flexible monthly payments that are based on an affordable percentage of income. Any public subsidy is locked in and preserved for future generations through the structure of equity arrangements.

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David Rodgers – published by The Co-operative Party:  January 1999

Produced as a series of New Mutualism pamphlets, this paper looks at co-operative housing in the UK and globally. It shows why mutualism in housing, particularly through the development and support of housing co-operatives in publicly subsidised housing, should be an essential part of the government’s agenda. The pamphlet looks at the origins of mutualism in ethics and evolution, feudal dependency, and how we can go from feudal dependency to control.

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