Department for Communities and Local Government. CLT activity in England and Wales. SELF BUILD CLT Network XXXcellent. Factiva Article. "There's no way we could afford to pay anything like those prices, but we were one of 12 local families selected to build our own homes," says Liz. "Scores applied but the lucky dozen were chosen by having their names drawn from a hat.
If it wasn't for this scheme, we'd be renting or having to move away from our own area. " The secret behind the low-cost housing is a non-profit-making Community Land Trust created by locals fed up of being priced out of the housing market - a sort of bricks-and-mortar version of David Cameron's Big Society.