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Read our latest news - See how our community is shaping a fairer London.

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October 2025

Healthy City Design Awards 2025: Citizens House development in Lewisham has won Best Healthy Homes and Neighbourhoods

June 2025

Our Response to: Rethinking the London Plan - A Call for Affordable, Community-Led Housing

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Winter 2024

Building Societies Association, Society Matters Quarterly: Building genuinely and permanently affordable homes is part of the solution

13/10/2024

The Sunday Times: Building blocks of community – a growing movement of CLTs are capturing the 'YIMBY' spirit by building their own affordable homes [paywall]

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11/05/2024

Rio On Watch: Razia Khanom: ‘The community spirit of favelas should be implemented in the UK’

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29/02/2024

Architectural Research Quarterly: Co-producing affordable housing futures: tools for community participation

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15/10/2023

Big issue: Community Land Trusts are the next social housing revolution

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01/09/2023

FT Weekend: Community land trusts offer a fresh take on housing development

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15/05/2023

Global Design News: Involving future residents in the design process

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01/05/2023

BBC News: Where property prices are set by what local people earn

Watch the BBC video here; listen to the BBC Sounds radio spot here

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20/04/2023

The Guardian: ‘We made a nuisance of ourselves’: how Citizens House created real affordable housing – for ever!

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17/04/2023

Wallpaper: Is Citizens House a model for community housing of the future?

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06/04/2023

This is Local London: Londoners who couldn’t afford to buy get on ladder by designing homes

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04/04/2023

LSE iQ Podcast: How can we make homes more affordable?

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31/03/2023

MyLondon: South Londoner who feared they would have to buy in Croydon built their own homes to avoid it

30/03/2023

Big Issue: These south London homes are designed by the community and will always be affordable

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29/03/2023

Evening Standard: Community builders: south Londoners beat the housing crisis by co-building ‘genuinely affordable’ new homes

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29/03/2023

City Monitor (New Statesman): Lewisham opens community-designed affordable housing

17/01/2022

The Meteor: The Housing Crisis is a Land Crisis – says author Lily Gordon-Brown

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02/12/2020

The Conversation: Public housing needs radical reform: here’s how

28/05/2020

Economy: What is community-led housing and does it have a future?

30/04/2019

Building Design: Archio gets green light for Lewisham CLT homes

19/03/2019

Architects' Journal: Levitt Bernstein wins London housing scheme through public ballot

04/03/2019

Inside Housing: London Community Land Trust to boost development by 500%

25/07/2018

City Monitor (New Statesman): London needs community land trusts – and 2018 could be our year

05/04/2018

East London Advertiser: ‘Clocktower’ flats go on sale at St Clement’s site in Mile End next to East London Land Trust scheme

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13/12/2017

The Guardian: (Number 1 in) The top 10 architecture and design events of 2017

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15/05/2017

The Big Issue: Community land trusts: an answer to Britain’s housing crisis?

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16/01/2017

The Guardian: The radical model fighting the housing crisis: property prices based on income

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16/03/2016

BBC Sunday Politics: Feature on St Clements CLT

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25/06/2014

The Guardian: Could community land trusts offer a solution to the UK's housing crisis?

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04/08/25

Big Issue: Community housing project offering affordable homes forever up for a prestigious architecture award

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13/05/2025

Citizens House, Lewisham: Archio's elegant, affordable community-led housing scheme encourages social interaction and is flooded with natural light. It has won a 2025 RIBA London Award and took the 2025 London Client of the Year Award

05/11/2024

Inside Housing: Cable Street’s community legacy

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01/07/2024

Our eight policy statements for the next Government – what’s needed to bring forward more community-led affordable homes

The main party manifestos scored against our policy statements

23/04/2024

Housing for Community, Health & Prosperity: A London CLT conference

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29/02/2024

Azure Magazine: How community-led development shapes design

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14/09/2023

Frame magazine: 'Co-design provides a sense of agency, place and self-worth'

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25/08/2023

Architects' Journal: Citizens House by Archio: for the people by the people

02/05/2023

New Start Magazine: South London scheme sees locals prioritised for properties

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24/04/2023

Architecture Today: Citizens House

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18/04/2023

RIBA Journal: 'The start of something amazing': Community Land Trust housing by Archio and Comment: Life gives a place its soul

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14/04/2023

Dezeen: Archio creates white brick housing block for London Community Land Trust

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06/04/2023

News Shopper: Londoners who couldn’t afford to buy get on ladder by designing homes

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01/04/2023

Birmingham Live: Homeseekers priced out of the market design dream homes and 'pick their neighbours'

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31/03/2023

Manchester Evening News: Homeseekers priced out of the market design dream homes and 'pick their neighbours'

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29/03/2023

UK Daily News: Affordable homes designed by residents open in Lewisham and Londoners who could not afford to buy rose by designing houses

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29/03/2023

South London Press: ‘The power of communities’: Affordable homes designed by residents open in Lewisham

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29/03/2023

Yahoo! Finance: Community builders: south Londoners beat the housing crisis by co-building ‘genuinely affordable’ new homes

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18/11/2021

East London Lines: Half price homes on sale to Lewisham residents

03/06/2020

East London Advertiser: Land trust scheme for 40 low-cost homes at Shadwell gets £2m from City Hall to get ball rolling

16/08/2019

Ilford Recorder: Have your say on council’s plans to build 94 new homes in centre of Ilford

20/03/2019

East London Advertiser: ‘Oranges and lemons’ pledge for a public space at St Clement’s is pipped at the post in Mile End

14/03/2019

Architects' Journal: Vote for your architect: The new way to win work

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21/08/2018

Time Out: Take housing into your own hands

03/05/2018

East London Advertiser: New Bishop of London blesses old railway yard in Shadwell to be used for land trust housing

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21/01/2018

The Guardian: A blueprint for British housing in 2028

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06/09/2017

Evening Standard: To solve the housing crisis, our leaders should look to the American approach

21/02/2017

RioOnWatch: Community Land Trust Models and Housing Coops from Around the World

18/11/2016

BBC: How to keep house prices low for generations to come

02/10/2014

East London Advertiser: Land Trust scheme at St Clement’s in Mile End gets two housing awards

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27/03/2014

The Guardian: The half-price houses coming soon to east London

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