Leeds Community Homes was co-founded in 2015 by Paul Chatterton and Steve Hoey, and was constituted as a Community Benefit Society in November 2015 by representatives from Empty Homes Doctor, Social Business Brokers, LEDA, Canopy, LATCH, GIPSIL, and LILAC, to build and enable more community led, affordable, environmentally sustainable housing in the Leeds area. We also help groups to gain funding, run share offers and offer consultancy work.
We held our first community share offer in 2016-17 and raised £362,000 in community investment which was to be put towards our proposed acquisition of 16 affordable homes at the Climate Innovation District.
In January 2018 LCH was nationally recognised as the first funded community-led housing enabler hub.
In April 2021 we restructured, with People Power Homes Ltd forming as a wholly owned subsidiary company which assumed the responsibility for running the enabling hub as a regional service.
In January 2024 we acquired the first phase of our affordable homes at Climate Innovation District.
In October 2024 we launched our national report “Community Led Housing For All”
