Call us romantics...
We believe autonomy, sufficiency, and exchange of housing and our built enviornment can help to break down financial and social divides, reduce our environmental impact on the city, as well as tackle states of insecurity, loneliness, and depression.
This is a collective effort
In Berlin, 5,000 homes – 15% of their new housing provision – is now being built every year by Baugruppen, Germany’s community housing movement, led by local communities shaping their own homes and destinies, with help from supportive local councils.
- East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative
- California Center for Cooperative Development
- Sustainable Economies Law Center
- Champlain Housing Trust
Experts
Network
Beyond Community
In-between
Imagining the relationships between each project as part of an ecosystem, including kinship with the non-human. Time is not linear and yet we run enitrely on that assumption. Housing and the mortgage model accentuates this treadmill of work to survive, rather than enitrely quesitoning what we are living for. We are born and we die, this in-between time is our only thing we really have.
Degrowth
We want to establish a base from which to grow and expand our i.deas about how to live together, experimenting with models outside of the traditional family home or atomised individual occupancy. The majority of existing domestic spaces are organised around the nuclear family unit, but we feel it is necessary to build a house specifically designed for multiple individuals or families with varying needs, desires and preferences.
Labor
This word helps to get people on board the project who understand that housing is more than a roof over our head, it is even more than a basic need, it is a choice to acknowledge our place in the world and our responsibility to act in reciprocity with the earth. Working all the time and attending the needs of everyday life, while enjoying some much need leisure time, make it near impossible to find time for caretaking or unpaid work.
Working in the peri-urban. We are not interested in rural sites, or urban sites. Why? Rural is 100% car dependent, and more in line with incredible project addressing off-grid living and agrihoods. Urban sites, require a higher density than we want to live. This interstitial zone is a missing middle that needs addressing, and also allows for some space for members to have some land but be tied to the grid and neighborhood network of relations.
