This is a filing page to keep my references to alternative ways of building or inhabiting, mainly within the UK. I will keep updating it as I find new information and ideas
Observer 21.4.13
Ed Vuillamy discusses the demolition of the "Welsh streets" in Liverpool - 440 Victorian terraced houses are being demolished to make room for 150 new homes. Many commentators and residents question the wisdom of investing money in new stock when solidly built existing housing with an established community could be renovated for less.
!This was followed next Sunday by comment by Welsh Streets community Champions group maintaining that the old houses were damp and inconvenient for modern living, with no parking spaces or garden areas)
Observer 24.02.13
Graham Norwood on Co-housing - housing estates owned and managed by residents. Privately owned housing is combined with a shared space for cooking, laundry, leisure and social activities.
www.cohousing.org.uk
Guardian 7.5.13
Oliver Wainwright on co-housing schemes in Lancaster and Bramley
Guardian 26.11.11
Patrick Collinson on Almere, the self-build community near Amsterdam. Could it work in UK, he asks, and finds out that UK planning laws make it hard.
Money Guardian 7.01.12
Simon Murphy on Homeshare
A charity that matches elderly people with students. The carer pays a peppercorn rent in exchange for helping the owner of the house. This might not always work, but when it does, it helps both parties.
Guardian 30.4.13
Ian Hembrow on Community Housing Associations - a way of creating social housing that also builds and/or strengthens a community
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