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Callan community-led housing is ‘citizenship at its best’
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A housing development in Callan has been highlighted as one in a Europe-wide movement towards ‘community-led housing’.
The aim of this new kind of community is to “imagine the best possible pattern for housing in a new era of rights and social inclusion.”
President Michael D Higgins has written the foreword to this report, saying these new kinds of developments merit the support of policy makers at a time when “it is abundantly clear that radical solutions to housing provision are needed urgently given the magnitude of a housing crisis that is not abating.”
The UK s first retirement community for elderly LGBT+ people has been given the green light to open in London later this year.
Tonic Housing said it would purchase 19 already built flats at the Bankhouse development in Vauxhall after securing a £5.7 million loan from the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.
The one and two-bedroom apartments apartments will be available to buy on a shared-ownership basis in late spring, with the first residents expected to be moved in by mid-summer.
Mr Khan said he was proud to be helping open the facility for older Londoners to be able to enjoy their later years .
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