PhD by Research Towards a theory of the Community Led Housing Process

Investigator: Martyn Holmes

Supervisors: Alan Chandler, Anna Minton, Stephen Maddison

Community led housing is an umbrella term, a brand created by a partnership of organizations to deliver that sector and a new space (theoretically) and set of spaces (physically) where CLH realities are being conceived and constructed. This moment in time presents a unique opportunity to study new housing paradigms in formation. A set of paradigms, or world views, that will underpin a new housing sector centred around community participation in the production of the places and spaces we inhabit. A sector that through the involvement of agent and agencies from normative and non-normative housing pathways has the potential to challenge or reproduce the current housing system.

My research examines this conjunctural, intersectional and contested CLH space, where competing histories, values and processes meet, via the lived experience of those who are participating in CLH developments under the current CLH initiative.