Making space for genuinely affordable community led housing.

<p>We spoke with Deborah Glass Woodin, former local councillor, activist, occasional human bollard and current Director of <a href="https://www.oclt.org.uk/"><strong>Oxfordshire Community Land Trust (OCLT) </strong></a>about the launch of their recent project <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-66047280">Croft’s Court</a>, which has built eight new permanently affordable homes in the Vale of White Horse on a formerly vacant brownfield site. </p>

<p>The project hopes to bring residents together and democratise the management of the building through the creation of a tenant-managed co-operative. </p>

<p>Deborah offered up the ingredients of grit, determination, and simply making something happen, that can’t be underestimated – adopting the principle of <a href="https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/show-dont-tell"><em>show, don’t tell.</em></a></p>