The principles of community wealth building
Community wealth building is a response to the contemporary challenges of austerity, financialisation and provides resilience where there is risk and local economic security where there is precarity.
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Community wealth building strategies are based on five key principles, developed by CLES over the course of decades’ working with municipalities and anchor institutions across the UK and globally.
The five principles:
- Plural ownership of the economy. Learn more →
- Making financial power work for local places. Learn more →
- Fair employment and just labour markets. Learn more →
- Progressive procurement of goods and services. Learn more →
- Socially productive use of land and property. Learn more →
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