Community Land Trusts (CLT) combine 'access to housing' with the principle of 'democratic management' in everyday living.

Some policies include in themselves some aspects of self-construction

Some towns provide land and materials free-of-charge to enable citizens to build their own houses with the help of the community.

Several initiatives aim at sharing knowledge and facilitating self-construction, be it in housing, farming facilities, shelters, etc.

Self-construction can be part of a community project where the members of a community help one in each other to build their own houses

Legal device used in England and Wales, which enables local authorities to put an unoccupied property back into use as housing.

Facilitates negotiation talks with the owners of abandoned buildings and other unused premises.

Based on Ex-propriation and fines in order to avoid buildings lying empty while families and individuals face homelessness on the streets of Andalucía, Spain.

The reusing of abandoned housing may be provided by through law or policy. In other cases, the occupation of buildings is done without the consent of the legal owner of the premises, despite it lying vacant and unused, and is therefore considered illegal.

As hundreds of buildings contine to lie abandoned and unused all across Europe, creative initiatives have appeared in several European countries that aim at mapping abandoned buildings in the hope that they will be later used in some shape or form.