A decade in the making, London’s first community land trust (CLT) housing project opened this year, as part of a redevelopment of a former Victorian workhouse in Mile End. The simple brick apartment blocks might not be architecturally groundbreaking, but the model of tenure certainly is: the house prices will be linked to local income in perpetuity, taking the homes out of the speculative property market and making them affordable to local people forever.

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