Priced Out of Housing, Communities Take Development Into Their Own Hands ( archive.ph )

Powderhorn Mod , 1 month ago

This will certainly gain momentum as awareness of the concept grows. While this is overall great news that we're coming up with repeatable ways to sidestep the usurious real property market, I'm concerned about same. How long is the window until these are made illegal again and then an engineered recession puts all these buildings in the hands of capital?

ninjaphysics , 1 month ago

Precisely why we must make more demonstrations of this, and find ways to codify protections that prevent such negative outcomes. It starts with spreading the word of this success to other potential towns that would benefit from a structure such as this. There are lots of small community land trusts whose basic principle is keeping the land affordable and ensuring it serves the community. There's also a strong movement to have community owned utilities be the norm. Lots of intersections there that we could learn from and that would bring the residents economic prosperity over time.