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.

Lev studied architecture and real estate, spent a year out in practice in the Netherlands, and has taught design and planning at London Metropolitan University. On the Architecture Social Podcast he explains how community led housing works, how groups are funded and governed, and where architects can add real value to community projects.

Watch or listen to the full conversation in the Architecture Social CPD: What is Community Led Housing? Co-ops, CLTs and Cohousing with Levent Kerimol.