CLTs can help reduce the historic under supply of affordable homes and anchor regeneration. Support now includes:

The Community Empowerment White Paper

The Cumbria Sub-Regional Housing Strategy

The Regional Rural Delivery Framework report to the NWDA Rural Group

The Lake District National Park Investing in Communities programme

The November 08 House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee report

The recommendations of the Burgess and Taylor reports into the rural economy and affordable housing

And the 2008 Housing & Regeneration Act.