Community Housing Fund

The Mayor has secured London's Community Housing Fund share, and is delivering the capital's programme. Outside London, the programme is being delivered by Homes England.

You can see grant funding allocations by reading this Community Housing Fund allocations document, covering quarter 1, 2018-19 to quarter 4, 2024-25. This data is also published under the GLA’s Decisions or Delegated Approvals Log, as appropriate.

The Mayor published the Community Housing Fund prospectus in January 2019, which sets out fund objectives to: 

• increase London's housing supply, by boosting the number of homes delivered by the community-led housing sector
• provide housing that is affordable at local income levels (and remains so in perpetuity)
• deliver a legacy for the community-led housing sector, offering effective and self-sustaining expertise. 

The programme is providing the following funding: 

• revenue grants to community-led groups, helping cover project-specific activity costs that support developing proposals for new housing schemes, as well as pre-development costs and preparing for planning applications
• capital funding to deliver new homes
• development finance to support delivering CLH schemes.

Organisations and groups who want to bid for revenue and/or capital funding should contact the Community-Led Housing London Hub to discuss their application. 

Following an initial discussion with the Community-Led Housing London Hub, bids for advanced revenue or capital funding should be submitted through the GLA's Open Project System (OPS).

OPS is a streamlined system which partners should find simple to navigate. If your organisation has not previously used OPS, you must first register and create a new organisation profile to be able to bid. This process (along with further OPS information) is detailed in this user guide.

Organisations bidding for capital funding should also look at the GLA's Affordable Housing Capital Funding Guide, and email the GLA if they need further help to use it, at [email protected].

The GLA has in place an Anti-Money Laundering Policy. This covers, in particular, checks undertaken when the GLA makes interest-free loans and recoverable grants to entities and individuals.