page_title: Self-build
section_title: Current Issues
hierarchical_section_title: Self-build / Extent / United Kingdom / Current Issues
caption_attribution_description: Michael Riggio, a mason by trade constructs a brick wall for a detached garage for his home in a Self-Help Housing neighborhood in Newville, Pennsylvania. Owners of homes in the neighborhood help each other with the construction of each other’s homes. Loans for the homes in this neighborhood were made available through the United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Self-Help Housing Loan Program.
context_page_description: Self-build is the practice of creating an individual home for oneself through a variety of different methods. The self-builder's input into this process varies from doing the actual building work to contracting out all the work to an architect or building package company.
context_section_description: The main impediment to the UK self-build market is the shortage of building plots available to the self-builder, high land prices and the restrictive planning regime. in 2008 the National Self Build Association (NaSBA) was established to order to put pressure on relevant bodies, including the Government, to remedy this situation. The founding members of NaSBA are Bath and District Self Build Association, Build It magazine, BuildStore, Potton/Kingspan, Architecture Verte and Ecomotive.
  The Association changed its name to the National Custom & Self Build Association (NaCSBA) in July 2014 – borne out of a desire to officially welcome the custom build community.
  Since 2016, local authorities in England are required to maintain a register of people and groups who want to build their own home.
caption: Self-build housing in Pennsylvania.
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