Do Community Land Trust Principles Modify the Architecture of Housing? The Case of the CLTB
(2022) European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) conference 2022. “The Struggle for the “Right to Housing” — Location: Barcelona (30.August.2022)
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- The Community Land Trust (CLT) aims to create affordable housing to as many people as possible. To achieve this goal, it is based on a principle that distinguishes land and building ownership. This well-tried principle emphasizes the institution of common goods and the preservation of individual interests. On the one hand, the feeling of belonging is developed to make communities autonomous (J. Davis). On the other hand, the search for residents’ fulfilment aims at their empowerment through housing ownership. Although the model has been in place and well-tested for years in terms of governance and economic principles, it has not found an established expression in terms of space. In Brussels, for example, the first projects developed by the Community Land Trust Brussels (CLTB) mainly aim at economic viability and do not question traditional housing schemes. Nevertheless, alternative layouts are tested by architects, allowing for new ways of living. In order to understand how the common good and particular interests are played out in space, the research proposes an analysis of the competition projects submitted for the CLTB. Their spaces are analysed in terms of the commons they produce and their capacity to manage individual interests. Commons range from the scale of the public realm, community, family and, eventually, the inhabitant. At the level of personal spaces and the freedom of choice of the inhabitant, several aspects are studied: the dwelling itself, the internal fittings, or the building finishing. The first results highlight how commons can go beyond the question of land tenure. At a spatial level, commons include collective rooms, shared by the inhabitants and the neighbourhood, circulation spaces, and even the building structure. Moreover, some of the proposals question the very notion of private ownership.
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Ledent, G., & et al. (2022). Do Community Land Trust Principles Modify the Architecture of Housing? The Case of the CLTB. European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) conference 2022. “The Struggle for the “Right to Housing”, Barcelona. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/102669