PlaceShapers announces Phoenix Community Housing as a new member
13 May 2025
We’re naturally aligned to the PlaceShapers' ethos.
Placeshapers is delighted to welcome back Phoenix Community Housing to its national network of community-focused housing associations.
Denise Fowler, Chief Executive of Phoenix Community Housing, said: “Our vision is to build a better future for our community in south London. It’s vital to us as a resident-led community housing association that we not only provide good quality housing services, but also ensure that all of our residents can have a say in what matters to them and work with partners on projects that can make a difference to people’s lives.
“We’re naturally aligned to the PlaceShapers' ethos and believe the network has made significant strides in recent years in advancing the community housing association approach. We’re very happy to be re-joining the network and look forward to sharing our successes and challenges with other landlords across England.”
Phoenix Community Housing is a community gateway housing associations that owns and manages more than 7,600 homes in the Lewisham wards of Bellingham, Catford South, Downham and Grove Park.
Matthew Walker, PlaceShapers Chair and Chief Executive of Leeds Federated Housing Association, said: “PlaceShapers is a national network of place-based landlords who work together to help communities thrive. Members are ambitious for their communities, committed to long-term solutions, united in our purpose, and firmly in it for the long term. Phoenix Community Housing shares this ethos and we are delighted they are re-joining PlaceShapers.”
Membership is assessed by the PlaceShapers Board of the housing association chief executives, based on:
- Demonstrating a long-standing commitment to the places it operates and how it strives to improve the social and economic resilience of the communities it works with.
- Putting residents and customers at the centre of what it does and ensures they have real influence on the organisation.
- Being locally focused and works actively with local authorities and local partners to improve and shape places at a strategic and operational level.
- Building homes that respond to local housing needs and providing more than just landlord services because it cares about the people and places where it works.