the next experts in
Social enterprise
and housing innovation
Celebrating the expertise and the power of local.
Empowering communities to solve housing issues through:
Knowledge-Sharing.
Collaboration.
Reciprocity.
The Power of Local
Housing issues and homelessness have reached crisis-levels. These issues impact millions, and while urgent action is required at many levels, we believe local people and ideas can be the most powerful sources of change.
Community-Led Housing projects can provide affordable, accessible solutions that support the holistic needs of the people they impact most.
Community-Led Housing
Community-Led Housing (CLH) describes a range of locally-driven initiatives – like cohousing, cooperative housing, community land trusts, and small place-based nonprofits – which have proven to work at all scales, across cities and towns of any size.
Conventional development is almost entirely profit-based and a small few control decisions about where and how we live. With CLH, power shifts to local people on the ground, who have ideas on how housing can be done differently and are prepared to take action. These Citizen Developers can play a huge role in helping solve the housing crisis.
Interested in learning more about how we support Citizen Developers build more CLH projects? Check out some of our solutions by hitting the button below!
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about reclaim
Making Community-Led Housing projects a reality is complex and overwhelming, and a lack of resources, knowledge, and capacity are significant barriers at any stage of development. Reclaim Community Collaborative Design Organization (CDO) was created to help fill the gaps CLH projects face and build up expertise across the sector.
As the next experts in housing innovation and social enterprise, Reclaim’s vision is to create a Community-Led Housing Ecosystem Support Network, where local groups can share first-hand knowledge and resources, collaborate, and forge partnerships. This approach will allow CLH groups to reduce their development costs and learn from one another, ultimately ensuring affordability, accessibility, and greater success for all projects in the ecosystem.
what we offer >>>>>>
> suPPORTING THE CLH SECTOR
Our goal is to build a robust CLH sector through peer-to-peer support, sharing solutions & tools with each other, providing educational & funding opportunities & connecting Citizen Developers online via a Knowledge-sharing Platform.
> research + development
We do a lot of R+D, both for ourselves & with other CLH groups. Almost everything we create - papers, legal agreements, drawings, applications, etc. – is licensed in the Creative Commons & added to a CLH Toolkit so that others don't have to start everything from scratch.
> clh consulting Services
Reclaim provides personalized supports for CLH projects, including: mentorship, providing tools & how to use them & filling roles wherever needed.
> Funding
We can help you find, strategize & write grant applications & bring together the necessary partners to be successful across all scales & sources of funding. We can be the lead proponent if needed or simply manage the funds when you are successful.
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Solutions Lab
We are now a pre-approved CMHC Solutions Lab consultant. Reach out to find out how we can help you work through an innovation framework to try to solve complex and systemic issues.
