Housing and community-leadership: sharing learning from reorganising the neighbourhood

英国住房危机继续在COVID-19大流行、能源价格螺旋式上升和收入停滞等社会问题的表面下酝酿。这些危机加剧了住房保障的障碍，住房需求和法定无家可归者的比例不断上升就是明证。社区领导人站在最前沿，发展应对日益缺乏负担能力的住房的弹性，建立社区组织，开发创新的设计解决方案，并抵制社区的高档化。在我的博士研究中，我通过与来自英国各地的社区领袖和组织的访谈和焦点小组，探讨了社区对受士绅化威胁的社区住房设计的干预。这些数据使我能够了解社区住房领导的各个方面如何在社区层面建立对社会空间问题的弹性。这方面的学习对于发展社区领导人的能力和了解实现政策改革和实现社会影响的机会至关重要。这一点尤其重要，因为各级政府越来越多地负责社区基础设施，如食品银行，以及作为福利政策一部分的互助系统，正如我们在大流行期间看到的那样。但是，尽管现在长达十年的政策转向社区基础设施（从“大社会”和地方主义法案等旗舰政策提案开始（Bevan, 2014； Brownill和Bradley， 2017）），工人阶级社区的物质环境仍在继续下降。然而，我的博士项目的研究结果试图揭示社区组织的潜在能力，以超越弹性，建立社会运动的改革。因此，利用我博士研究中开发的全国网络，该奖学金的核心活动将是与社区领袖和组织合作，设计和提供社区领导力暑期学校。采用联合制作的方式，暑期学校将提供两项活动，以领导力和组织治理途径的主题为坚实基础。第一项活动将巩固我从参与组织的博士研究中获得的知识，并通过专业社区组织者和社区设计师的研讨会，在社区领导人的旅程开始时向他们传播知识。第二个活动将为社区合作伙伴提供一个参与政策知识交流的机会，让地方政府和地方政府的住房政策制定者参与进来，分享对政策干预可以在哪里实施以及在政策领域对社区领导人产生影响的途径的理解。该奖学金还将用于开发针对朋友公积金基金会，纳菲尔德基金会的研究，发展和分析基金以及标准人寿基金会的资助申请，这将使该领域的持续研究能够延续到奖学金年度之后。该项目旨在更好地了解房东是如何集体组织的，以及他们是如何组织他们的财务的，同时调查对房东的抵抗是如何组织的——扩大与社区联盟ACORN的现有研究，进行更深入的民族志研究。这个项目还将发展我对影响和知识交流的理解，与REEF的联系网络和合作伙伴合作——包括一个领先的智库（新经济基金会）、地方当局和地方政府——根据研究结果制定政策。最后，通过与我的导师obs的Owain Smolovic-Jones博士和战略合作伙伴NUBS的Mihaela Kelemen教授的合作，该奖学金还将提高我在组织研究方面的教学和论文写作技能。

The UK housing crisis continues to simmer below the surface of society wide issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, spiralling energy prices, and stagnating incomes. These crises have exacerbated barriers to housing security, demonstrated by rising rates of housing need and statutory homelessness. Community leaders are at the forefront of developing resilience to an increasing lack of affordability in housing, building community organisations, developing innovative design solutions, and resisting gentrification in their neighbourhoods. In my PhD research I explored community interventions into the design of housing in neighbourhoods threatened with gentrification, using interviews and focus groups with community leaders and organisations from across the UK. This data allowed me to develop an understanding of how aspects of community leadership in housing can build resilience to socio- spatial issues at the neighbourhood level.Learning in this area is vital for developing community leaders' capacities and understanding of the opportunities to achieve policy reforms and realise social impact. This is particularly important as government at all levels increasingly responsibilises community infrastructure such as food banks and, as we saw during the pandemic, for systems of mutual aid as part of welfare policy. But despite a now decade long policy shift to community infrastructure (beginning with flagship policy proposals such as "the big society" and the Localism Act (Bevan, 2014; Brownill and Bradley, 2017)), the material circumstances of working-class communities have continued to decline. The findings of my PhD project, however, attempt to reveal the latent capacities of community organisation to move beyond resilience and build social movements for reform. Using the national networks developed in my PhD research, the central activity of the fellowship will therefore be to collaborate with community leaders and organisations to design and deliver a Community Leadership Summer School. Using a co-production approach, the summer school will deliver two events with a strong basis in the themes of the Leadership and Organisational Governance Pathway. The first event will consolidate learning from my PhD research in participating organisations, as well as disseminating learning to community leaders at the beginning of their journeys, through workshops from professional community organisers and community designers. The second event will provide an opportunity for community partners to participate in knowledge exchange in policy, engaging housing policy makers across devolved and local government in sharing understanding about where policy interventions can be made and what the routes to impact for community leaders are in policy spheres.This fellowship will also be used to develop a funding application targeted for the Friends Provident Foundation, the Nuffield Foundation's Research, Development and Analysis Fund and the Standard Life Foundation, which would enable continuous research in this area that will extend beyond the year of the fellowship. The project will aim to better understand how landlords organise collectively and how they organise their finance, as well as investigating how resistance to landlords is organised - expanding on existing research with community union ACORN to conduct more in-depth, ethnographic research. This project will also develop my understanding of impact and knowledge exchange, working with REEF's network of contacts and partners - including a leading think-tank (New Economics Foundation), local authorities and devolved governments - to develop policy based on the findings of the research.Finally, the fellowship will also develop my teaching and paper writing skills in organisational studies, through collaboration with my mentor Dr Owain Smolovic-Jones at OUBS and strategic partner Professor Mihaela Kelemen at NUBS.