Journal
ANTIPODE
Volume 47, Issue 4, Pages 1021-1042Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12154
Keywords
neighbourhood regeneration; community land trusts; housing commons; guerrilla gardening
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- ESRC [ES/J500094/1]
- Economic and Social Research Council [1091441] Funding Source: researchfish
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Emerging in the cracks of the ownership model are alternatives to state/market provision of affordable housing and public/private-led regeneration of declining urban neighbourhoods, centred on commoning and collective dweller control. This paper explores how the community land trust model can become an effective institutional solution to urban decline in the context of private property relations. It explores a case study of a CLT campaign in Granby, a particularly deprived inner-city neighbourhood in Liverpool, England. The campaign seeks to collectively acquire empty homes under conditions of austerity, which have opened up the space for grassroots experimentation with guerrilla gardening, proving important for the campaign in gaining political trust and financial support. This paper discusses the potential of the CLT model as a vehicle for democratic stewardship of place and unpacks the contradictions threatening to undermine its political legitimacy.
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