Roadmapping a Viable Community-Led Housing Sector for Ireland

Across Ireland, community groups are exploring ways to collectively create their own homes together.

Community-Led Housing is a ground-up approach which enables groups of people to pool their assets and collective resources to create homes and communities which meet their particular needs in a sustainable manner.

Supported by The Housing Agency, The Land Development Agency, Ó Cualann Cohousing Alliance and the Goethe Institut Irland, SOA Research initiated and coordinated a 12-month multi-stakeholder research project to roadmap a Community-Led Housing infrastructure for Ireland.

Stakeholders in the project included eight CLH groups from counties across Ireland, policy-makers, local authorities, state and private sector financial bodies, housing practitioners and professionals, along with expertise from other European countries.

The resulting publication, ‘Roadmapping a Viable Community-Led Housing Sector for Ireland,’ comprises a series of handbooks on the subject of Community-Led Housing, offering guidance in the areas of Policy, Finance, Land and ‘Getting Your Group Ready’.

This webinar will launch the publications and feature contributions from a range of expert speakers:
Rosie Lynch, Nimble Spaces / Inclusive Neighbourhoods in Callan, Co Kilkenny
Sorcha Edwards, Secretary General of Housing Europe
Rory O'Donnell, former Director of the National Economic & Social Council
Sallay Garnett (Loah) & Brian Dillon ARTHOUSE Cooperative, greater Dublin area.
John O'Connor, Chief Executive Officer, The Housing Agency
Padraig Flynn and Tom O'Donnell, Co-Directors, SOA Research CLG

The RIAI is not issuing CPD Certificates for this webinar, please check with The Housing Agency.  Alternatively, on completion of the webinar download the Structured Webinar CPD Evidence Report and upload it to your MyRIAI CPD record as evidence of your participation in this course.