Community-Led Housing Ecosystem Support Network 

Working on your own community-led housing project? 

As we have worked on Killick Ecovillage over the last several years, we realized there wasn't anywhere we could go to learn from other Citizen Developers - the people on the ground in their communities who have a good idea for impactful housing. We kept having to start from scratch and spend time, money, and energy developing our project tools. We realized this was inefficient, and started talking to other groups who were facing the same challenges. 

Two of our project members, Wendy Reid Fairhurst and Hillary King, started Reclaim Community CDO to start capturing the invaluable knowledge we were gaining by working on the Killick Ecovillage community. We have created the Community-led Housing Ecosystem Support Network (CLH-ESN for short) to house a growing body of knowledge on community-led housing - our members can access tools, expertise, and a dedicated community of Citizen Developers to help make their project happen more quickly, with lower budgets, and less mistakes along the way. 

Why join the CLH-ESN?

• Join a network of supportive Citizen Developers and professionals working on their own community-led projects across the country!
• Using Creative Commons licensing, members can access over 200 tools to help streamline the pre-development process for community-led housing. 
• Embrace the spirit of community and reciprocation. Share your project tools and resources to help us expand the our knowledge to better support future CLH projects.