Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust MICHAEL SIMON
Community Ownership Models ●
Third way of ownership/provision: neither public nor private
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Voluntary membership of residents in housing association
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Capture of land value locally for member residents ●
Recycle social surplus back into association to subsidise housing costs
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Perpetually affordable housing held in trust for future generations
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Collective, democratic decision-making: self-government
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Potentially radical alternative - but divergence in political radicalism across different models: ●
Squatting, Cooperatives, Co-housing, Self-build, Tenant co-partnership, Community Gateway, Community Land Trusts, Development Trusts
Rationale for Mutual Alternatives Exploitation ● Housing crisis, speculation, lack of access to affordable housing Alienation ● Council housing residualisation, public/absentee landlordism Displacement ● Gentrification, state-led regeneration demolition (e.g. HMR) Due to separation of producer and consumer of housing: “The capital-relation presupposes a complete separation between the workers and the ownership of the conditions for the realisation of their labour… So-called primitive accumulation, therefore, is nothing else than the historical process of divorcing the producer from the means of production” Marx (1990) Capital vol. I, p.874-5
Reactive Campaigns to State ‘Out of necessity’ ●
1970s coop campaigns – responses to demolition threat ●
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1976 Liberal council tenement demolition programme – 57 ‘slum clearance areas’, included Weller Streets group and Eldonians’ Portland Gardens Coop
1983-87 Militant Council’s Urban Regeneration Strategy ●
Municipalised 7 housing coops (including Eldonians’ Portland Gardens)
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Galvanised Eldonians into community activism – ‘Self-Regenerating Community’ bid for Tate & Lyle site eventually successful with funding ●
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Langrove Street Action Group formed in 1986 to oppose council’s plans to demolish houses for Everton Park development ●
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Refused planning permission – overturned in planning inquiry
Occupation of houses led to successful establishment of housing coop
2003-11 Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder Programme ●
CLT campaigns to acquire empty homes under community ownership
Liverpool: Housing in Struggle ●
Garden City movement
1910 Wavertree Garden Suburb ●
Housing Cooperative movement
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1976
1977 Weller Streets Housing Coop – UK’s
first resident-owned self-build coop 1984 Eldonian Housing Coop , UK’s largest communityowned housing trust today 1987 Langrove Community Housing Coop ●
Contemporary CLT movement
2012 Homebaked – UK’s first urban CLT Granby Four Streets CLT campaign Little Klondyke CLT campaign
Granby Area • First home for many Black and Ethnic Minority communities • Low Home Ownership • Dominated by Social Housing • Declared Housing Renewal Area • Impact of the Red Line • Heritage disempowerment, decanting compulsory purchase order • Class inbuilt to housing scale
The Granby Story: From Turmoil to Turner In five easy steps Granby Street
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The Problem
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The Community
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The Solution
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The Turner Prize 2015
Granby a Life in Pictures
Rediscovery of Poverty? SNAP 1969 - 71
Granby A Life In Pictures
1981
Post 1981 Urban Initiatives ●
we’ve had………
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slum clearance, Michael Heseltine, a task force, a development corporation, a garden festival, an estate action zone, single regeneration budget, 2 neighbourhood renewal area assessments, extended, and extended, a pathways partnership, objective 1 European programme, URBAN, housing market renewal, an idea about homes for £1, (that never got off the ground), a couple of Neighbourhood Management initiatives, Beaconsfield Street improvements and the developer go bust, habitat for humanity, New Heartlands, a transition fund, a private sector partner, or two, Gleesons, an empty homes back into use bid,
The Problem
The Community
The Community
The Solution
Assemble
Assemble
Granby Workshop
Turner Prize
Turner Prize Exhibition
Winners
Winter Garden
Our Homes
Our Homes
A Sense of Past
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