CCH Confederation of Co-operative Housing

Tenant Control & Social Exclusion (Spring 2001): [large PDF File, 1124 kb. To download, right-click (PC) or click and hold (Mac) and select 'Save Link As'. Requires Acrobat Reader.]; A report on the ways in which tenant control impacts on social exclusion, by Professor David Clapham, Philippa O'Neill & Nic Bliss.
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Providing Services to Housing Co-operatives (Spring 2001): [PDF File, 176 Kb. To download, right-click (PC) or click and hold (Mac) and select 'Save Link As'. Requires Acrobat Reader.]; This research examines the relationship between housing co-operatives and the organisations that provide services to them. By Blase Lambert & Nic Bliss.

UPDATED: Stock Transfer - the Community Gateway Model (October 2001): The CCH has developed proposals on creating community control through stock transfer. It is intended that these policies will form the leading part of a publication on stock transfer to be published through the Co-operative Party in October. In the meantime, any comments on these proposals should be directed to nic@cch-uk.org - together with the attachment on the proposals.

A joint strategy for developing the co-operative housing sector (April 2001): [PDF File, 112 Kb. To download, right-click (PC) or click and hold (Mac) and select 'Save Link As'. Requires Acrobat Reader.]; This paper outlines a strategy to develop co-operation in housing. The co-operative movement recognises that housing and local communities are fundamental to everyone and therefore need to be key elements of the co-operative family, and there is extensive support within the co-operative movement to develop effective strategies to stimulate co-operation in housing.

Code of Governance for Housing Co-operatives (February 2001): This code of governance has been written in an attempt to clarify the important issues to do with how housing co-ops should be governed in order to provide maximum benefits for their members. It is hoped that housing co-ops will sign up to this written down code of governance and that this will both ensure internally that co-ops are running effectively and to high ethical standards, and will demonstrate these high standards externally.

Response to the Government Green Paper - ‘Quality & Choice - A Decent Home for All’ (June 2000)

Response to the Social Exclusion Unit report (June 2000): In May 2000, the Social Exclusion Unit published its ‘National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal: a framework for consultation’. The CCH's hard-hitting response outlines that the strategy should have been a blueprint for transferring power democratically to local communities.

Submission to the Co-ops Commission (May 2000): The Co-operative Movement, with the support of the Prime Minister, are currently looking at the future of the co-operative movement in the UK. As a part of this process, the CCH has made a submission to the Co-op Commission in partnership with the UK Co-operative Council.

Continuing dialogue between the CCH and Nick Raynsford, the Housing Minister (May 2000): With the assistance of Lord Graham of Edmonton, the Chair of the UK Co-operative Council, a meeting was held between representatives of the housing co-operative movement and Nick Raynsford on 15th February. Subsequent to the meeting, Nick responded in writing on the key points raised, and the CCH has responded to that letter. The CCH's response can be found here. For copies of Nick Raynsford's letter, please contact the CCH office.

Response to the Housing Corporation's ‘Options for Community Housing’ and ‘Community Training & Enabling’ (December 1999): In October 1999, the Housing Corporation published an ‘Options for Community Housing’ consultation paper, that was the result of pressure from the CCH and the housing co-operative movement to force them to consider the role played by resident controlled housing. Alongside this consultation paper, the Corporation also published a paper on ‘Community Training & Enabling Grant’.

Response to the Institute for Public Policy Research consultation document ‘Social Housing in the 21st Century’ (October 1999): The IPPR, an independent think tank, is currently considering the future of social housing and launched a consultation paper in 1999. The CCH's response promotes housing co-operatives and tenant controlled housing as models for consideration as well as looking at a number of other wide-ranging issues.

Tenants Taking Control (September 1999): The CCH's official policy paper, that was consulted on with the housing co-operative movement and published in 1999. (Copies of the full report available from the CCH office at a price of £5 to cover administration costs).

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