Levent Kerimol

Levent Kerimol is Director of Community Led Housing London, the team now operating as communityled.homes and formally part of CDS Co-operatives. He advises and mentors community groups across London who want to provide their own housing through housing co-operatives, community land trusts and cohousing, helping them incorporate, find sites, build business plans and appoint consultant teams.

Before leading Community Led Housing London, Lev worked at the Greater London Authority, where he established the Small Sites x Small Builders programme, contributed to the London Plan and managed a range of regeneration projects. He also worked with the London Borough of Lewisham on the early stages of the Rural Urban Synthesis Society (RUSS) community land trust in Ladywell, one of London's best known community led housing schemes.