• ‘We made a nuisance of ourselves’: how Citizens House created real affordable housing – for ever!

    ‘We made a nuisance of ourselves’: how Citizens House created real affordable housing – for ever!
    After years of campaigning, 11 homes have been built as London’s first community land trust – protected in value from the volatile property market. We meet the people who made it happenIn the back corner of a council estate in south London once occupied by dingy rows of lock-up garages next to a playground, there now stands a gleaming white brick block of flats. Big balconies jut out from its facade in a staggered grid, while a broad staircase loops up the back, where generous curved

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