Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary from leading international figures in the self-build and wider housing sector. Through their focus on community, dwelling, home and identity, the chapters explore the various meanings of self-build housing, encouraging new directions for discussions about self-building and calling for the recognition of the social dimensions of this process, from consideration of the structures, policies and practices that shape it, through to the lived experience of individuals and households.

1 Self-build homes: social values and the lived experience of housing in practice Michaela Benson and Iqbal Hamiduddin Part 1: Discourse, rationale, meaning 2 Community building: self-build and the neighbourhood commons Iqbal Hamiduddin 3 Models of self-build and collaborative housing in the United Kingdom Martin Field 4 Eco-homes for all: why the socio-cultural matters in encouraging eco-building Jenny Pickerill Part 2: Values, lifestyles, imaginaries 5 From cultures of resistance to the new social movements: DIY self-build in West Wales Elaine Forde 6 Protohome: rethinking home through co-production Julia Heslop 7 Of flux or finality? On the process and dynamics of a co-housing group in formation Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia and Kathleen ScanlonPart 3: Community and identity 8 Self-building as a practice of homemaking: the affective spaces of unfinished homes Michaela Benson 9 Senior co-housing: restoring sociable community in later life Jim Hudson 10 Something wonderful in my back yard: the social impetus for group self-building Emma Heffernan and Pieter de Wilde 11 Building a self: community self-build and the reconstruction of identity Katherine Collins Part 4: Perspectives from practice 12 Self-build neighbourhoods for living and working: a view from Tübingen, Germany Andreas Feldtkeller13 Turning the theory into reality Ted Stevens 14 Taking self-build out of its 'small and special box': citizens as agents for the political and the social of self-build Stephen Hill Conclusion New directions: self-build, social values and lived experience Iqbal Hamiduddin and Michaela Benson