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Cohousing Exeter

July 13, 2025

Cohousing Exeter is a newly forming group, looking for people interested in neighbourly living and active aging with some shared spaces, alongside individual homes.

Cohousing Exeter has a developer and a site for around 30 homes.

It is the first project we’re working on, using our Build Belonging methodology, which we’ve been developing and refining for the past couple of years.

Unlike traditional approaches to cohousing which start with a group, we’re starting with an enabling developer and a clear site, and acting as facilitators to convene a group of future residents around the project, and working with them to form a community and shape decisions. Our approach works across the physical, social, and organisational aspects of community led housing to create mutually supportive cultures in any new housing development, addressing isolation, raising well-being and quality of life.

Cohousing Exeter will focus on active aging. If you’re interested in living in Exeter with community baked into the foundations, or know someone who might be, we are seeking interest to attend future talks and meetings.

We are also exploring possibilities with developers in London, and would love to discuss any opportunities at an early stage.

 

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Intergenerational communal housing

July 11, 2025

We are helping to host the launch of some interesting work by Savannah Fishel drawing lessons from intergenerational cohousing communities in the USA and Australia. Her observations reflect our experience in the UK, and help deepen our approach to Build Belonging, where we turn developments into strong communities with a sense of belonging and neighbourly living.

The launch on 16 July includes a brief exhibition of case studies. The report will draw out the conditions that contribute to social cohesion between generations, and the strategies, interventions or designs that are effective in mitigating friction and helping a community to thrive.

 

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Urban Design Group

July 7, 2025

The Summer 2025 edition of the Urban Design Journal focuses on the increasing influence of community-led organisations in delivering new neighbourhoods.

We have a piece on giving people control and belonging, without the challenges encountered in traditional approaches to community led housing. Collective Ownership offers control and security for private renters with increasing affordability over time. Build Belonging is a form of custom built cohousing where we help developers incorporate the social and design principles of CLH into their developments, and forge communities around these projects.

We also reference RUSS and NW3 CLT, and other articles consider projects we’ve supported such as Squeezed London and Surge Co-operative.

On Monday 14 July, our director, Levent Kerimol, will take part in a discussion on Community Led Urbanism to explain how we’re taking forward these approaches to a wider number of people, chaired by Paul Reynolds, UDG Chair and Topic Editor for this latest edition of the Journal.

 

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London Assembly backs community led housing

April 28, 2025

The recent report from the London Assembly Housing Committee shines a light on Housing Co-ops and Community Land Trusts. It’s encouraging to see community-led housing being taken seriously at this level. We appreciate the positive recognition our work has received from the Assembly and the groups we work with.

The full report recommends the Mayor should advocate for and allocate more funding as well as land for CLH projects. It also emphasizes the need to ensure that more Black and minoritised people can bring forward community-led homes.

We welcome the recommendations for funding. Land is essential for groups pursuing development, although we know this a complex, risky, and lengthy path for communities to achieve control over their housing, and even more so for marginalised communities with limited time and resources.

To see real growth in community led housing, we believe new approaches such as Collective Ownership are essential. We are working to establish the Collective Ownership Society as a scalable vehicle for long-term investment focusing on acquisitions to address the instability and disempowerment faced by private renters.

We encourage the Mayor and Assembly, as well as third-sector funders and investors, to get behind Collective Ownership as a way of making the day-to-day control and security offered by community led housing, quicker and easier to access by London’s diverse communities.

 

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Property Development Book Club podcast

April 12, 2025

Our director, Levent Kerimol joined Hanna Afolabi from Mood & Space and Selasi Setufe MBE to talk about community led housing for the Property Development Book Club podcast.

The conversation covered what community led housing is, what makes it unique, how it addresses affordability, misconceptions, barriers, and how it could scale without loosing the diverse resident control that makes community led housing so powerful.
The discussion touches on Collective Ownership as a way to achieve this, as well as our work to Build Belonging, convening a community group around a professional development scheme.

 

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