Leeds Community Homes was co-founded in 2015 by Paul Chatterton and Steve Hoey, and was constituted as a Community Benefit Society in November 2015 by representatives from Empty Homes Doctor, Social Business Brokers, LEDA, Canopy, LATCH, GIPSIL, and LILAC, to build and enable more community led, affordable, environmentally sustainable housing in the Leeds area. We also help groups to gain funding, run share offers and offer consultancy work.

We held our first community share offer in 2016-17 and raised £362,000 in community investment which was to be put towards our proposed acquisition of 16 affordable homes at the Climate Innovation District.