With the Localism Act 2011, the neighborhood could become a key scale for governance reform and innovation with the potential to build sustainable communities. Localism had a strong policy resonance both for the previous Labour government and the Coalition Government’s ”Big Society” agenda of devolving services from government to communities. In the context of localism, the role of community-led housing, such as community land trusts and self-help housing, has gained increasing attention in England. Social innovations at the local level are an important challenge to the dominance of scale economies and reducing local control that has characterized recent housing reform in England (Mullins 2012). However, evidence to date is of patchy institutional support for such innovation and contested models for spreading innovation through “scaling-up” or ”going viral” (Moore and Mullins 2013).