Meet the Enablers Part 2! Demystifying Community Led Housing and Land Trusts
Access to stable, good quality, safe and comfortable housing is a necessity. Often those who are marginalised face systematic and structural barriers to accessing land and housing. Community-led housing and land trust initiatives are methods of collectivised resistance, placing land in the hands of a collective with shared interests as a means to build solutions to wider systemic issues.
While each community-led housing and land trust project can look radically different - unique in its aims and configuration - these workshops, informed by histories of Black community-led housing actions, will provide foundational tools vital to executing these projects.
This event is the fourth in a series serving as an introductory exploration into the power and methodology of collectivising housing and land acquisition.
The first two sessions were online. You can rewatch them on our YouTube channel. The third session was in-person in Leeds, led by Claude Hendrickson.
This in-person session is an opportunity to visit several inspiring self-build schemes in Lewisham and experience first-hand how community-led housing and land trusts are as much about health as they are about housing.
We will visit the Nubia Way Black-led self-built project, built in the late 1990s by Fusions Jameen, London's first black housing co-operative. The Nubia Way/Fusions Jameen legacy continues through the Downham CLT, which seeks to tackle environmental racism through the creation of a Health Equity Parks Trust consisting of a series of Healthy Living Centres, including Ten Em Bee where part of the day will be hosted.
The aim of this in-person session is to deepen our knowledge of community-led housing and community-owned assets whilst integrating race & health equity into land use.
Schedule (subject to change)
This is an afternoon event taking place in South-East London.
12.30pm - Meet
- Lunch
- Site visits to Black-led self build housing projects
- Workshop
5pm - Departures
Tickets are £5 which goes towards the cost of travel. We will cover the rest of the travel expenses and book travel on behalf of participants. If the ticket cost is a barrier, please get in touch with events@decolonisingeconomics.org.
This event is for Black and People of Colour in the UK looking to skill up on alternatives to racial capitalism. If you do not identify in BPOC, but are interested in supporting this work, please be in touch with info@decolonisingeconomics.org.
About
Nourishing Economics are pleased to present a series of workshops and talks that present how economic justice links to other forms of social injustice. This series presents our work and partnerships with activists and grassroots groups who are working to fight structural inequality across prison abolition, queer liberation, disability justice and reparative justice.
These events fall into Decolonising Economic’s strategy to make decolonial economic thinking more available and accessible to the wider community, by upholding the work of those working on these integral social justice spaces.
Access Information
- The site visit will involve some walking between venues, with the longest distance being a 20-minute walk.
- Venues are fully accessible with ramps. There will be access to toilets at most of the sites.
- Public parking is available at the sites.
- We are able to offer childcare for children aged 3-6 years old.
Please get in touch with events@decolonisingeconomics.org to discuss any access requirements.