Tackling the housing crisis
Mobilising the Church to build homes and communities.
The Church housing ‘ecosystem’ unites the Church to respond to housing need, inspired by the Coming Home report.
From longstanding institutions like The Church Commissioners and pioneering dioceses, to new initiatives born from Coming Home like the Archbishops’ Council Housing Project, the Church Housing Association, and the Church Development Agency, we’re working as one to unlock Church land for affordable homes and help tackle the housing crisis with compassion and purpose.
What’s Happening
The latest news, events and announcements from across the Church’s work on housing.
Case Studies
Examples and stories of in-progress and completed housing projects on Church Land.
St Aldate’s, Gloucester
St Andrew’s, Portland
Christ the Redeemer, Cambridge
St Martin’s Preston
How to Get Started
The Coming Home report concluded by saying we all have a part to play in responding to the housing crisis, and that will entail sacrificial service. One of the guides in our resources section, ‘Unless the Lord builds the house,’ emphasises the importance of learning to see our neighbourhood through God’s eyes. The housing crisis is primarily about people, not about buildings. We need to listen to our neighbours, learning with them what the key housing issues are locally. Then we need to see what we already have as a local church - people, skills, buildings - that could be part of what God wants us to use to help create decent, affordable homes and thriving neighbourhoods.
3 steps to get started:
Find someone else locally (e.g. in your church) to discuss these issues with and explore together how you might be part of the Church’s response to the housing crisis where you are.
Check out the resources on this website and sign up to our mailing list, so you can join our online Church housing events etc.
If your church has land or buildings that might be (re)developed to provide some housing, then talk to your vicar or churchwarden. If they support the idea, then get in touch with the Archbishops' Council Housing Project who can advise you.