Good Local Economics
Even having a job is no guarantee you won’t slip into poverty. Recent evidence from New Policy Institute (NPI), commissioned by Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), tells the latest story of poverty in the UK – ‘in work’ poverty is on the rise. The story of poverty in the UK is a lengthy complicated volume, with no end in sight.
Community ownership models are beginning to find their feet and offer a way forward from out-dated regeneration schemes, as Tom Archer and Rob Rowlands explain
In October 2011 we wrote an article, The Urban Collective, in which we suggested that community ownership might offer some hope in the aftermath of government-led regeneration programmes. However, we stressed that, despite the common usage of the term, ‘community’ is never a homogenous entity where there is unanimity of perspectives, values and objectives. Our suggestion was that community ownership models will ‘emerge from shared problems and small bases’ that over time will draw in ‘new members and different resources’. This was an argument for the piecemeal and anarchic in the absence of co-ordinated state action and funding.
