Community-Led Housing Metadata Schema

The Community-Led Housing Metadata Schema is a shared framework for describing cooperative and community-driven housing initiatives. It supports:

  • 🏘️ Local groups documenting their project or legal form
  • 🧭 Policymakers and funders comparing initiatives across regions
  • 🧑‍💻 Developers building tools, platforms, and dashboards
  • 🏛️ Researchers and federations structuring comparative data

Why this schema?

Community-led housing initiatives are diverse. Yet, across contexts, they often face similar challenges:

  • How to explain their legal form to outsiders?
  • How to trace affordability and collective ownership structures?
  • How to align with national or EU-level housing frameworks?

This schema offers a modular, open standard to help solve these challenges — transparently and collaboratively.

What does it include?

  • ✅ Core schema: describe type, legal form, ownership, and structure
  • ✅ Controlled vocabularies: consistent terms for legal entity types, contract roles, and member functions
  • 🧩 Extensions (coming soon): real estate, compliance, social context, and governance layers

Who can use it?

  • 📊 Cooperative networks
  • 🏛️ Municipal or national housing authorities
  • 🤝 Community organisers and federations
  • 🧱 Technical toolmakers
  • 🎓 Academic or policy researchers

No coding required — just structured clarity.

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Questions or suggestions?

This schema is under collaborative development.
Want to contribute or align your tools with the schema?

👉 Get in touch or open an issue on GitHub.