Building a self-help solution to Britain’s housing problems

Bristol Housing Action Movement occupying a council house in protest at its being sold in an auction in 2016.Robert Dark (Letters, 8 March) argues that what is desperately needed to deal with the UK housing problem is for “the government and councils to provide affordable homes for rent but with some new imaginative forms of tenancy”.If he looks at the work being done by Radical Routes, Triodos Bank and the Ecology Building Society to develop housing co-ops, he will see that ten