Tax sale for buying property in US residences for cheap is potentially a way to create community wealth. The numbers usually don’t work to make fancy primary residences but may work for community organizing spaces with someone living on second floor. So for example, our current house we got at tax sale for $65,000 plus a small chunk on unpaid mortgage and taxes. The house was floor to ceiling full with junk, infestations, etc. but after some months of cleaning out was ready for gut renovation. The sweat equity provided us with some good possible money, if we sell it, Insha’Allah, but moreover a place to live and organize. The third spaces are so critical. If we intended to stay longer was moving in the direction of community daycare and coop food purchasing group. With just 10 participants could have paid mortgage and some and still saved money.
This is exactly the kind of grounded, place-based example the manifesto points toward. Reclaiming disused spaces, investing sweat equity, and turning them into hubs for care and coordination... that is community wealth in action. Third spaces aren’t just nice to have, they’re critical infrastructure for a thriving future. Thank you for sharing this.
Cooperative natural gardening seems like it’s already popping up everywhere but it is annoying to me at least that so much is through Facebook or other meta platforms so an app could have utility here too
Thanks for making the space to. I’m a tech idiot. Genuinely. But it would be cool to have an app or web app that connects regional people with mls listings (or whatever the countries market listing service) and skills (from dry wall to cooking) that have potential for cooperative engagement. Might provide a means and direction for project engagement
Another thing to leverage is sporadic native nature gardening. I find most areas don’t know or care if you plant wild native edible plants. Sometimes domestication would be helpful which is obviously out of scope but still planting tubers like Camas where invasive are growing in BC, Canada seems viable. I have a few projects of this nature to try in the fall. One of my goals is free food sovereignty. Adding in silvopasture projects would be a dream someday. Again, it takes intensive management but can provide both ecological restoration and mass food production
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What we have to do is to show to people that such a world is very much possible and not some kind of far away utopian dream.
that's precisely what I'm doing with these city-by-city views of wellbeing economy implementations
https://wellbeingwins.substack.com/p/portlands-quiet-revolution
Tax sale for buying property in US residences for cheap is potentially a way to create community wealth. The numbers usually don’t work to make fancy primary residences but may work for community organizing spaces with someone living on second floor. So for example, our current house we got at tax sale for $65,000 plus a small chunk on unpaid mortgage and taxes. The house was floor to ceiling full with junk, infestations, etc. but after some months of cleaning out was ready for gut renovation. The sweat equity provided us with some good possible money, if we sell it, Insha’Allah, but moreover a place to live and organize. The third spaces are so critical. If we intended to stay longer was moving in the direction of community daycare and coop food purchasing group. With just 10 participants could have paid mortgage and some and still saved money.
This is exactly the kind of grounded, place-based example the manifesto points toward. Reclaiming disused spaces, investing sweat equity, and turning them into hubs for care and coordination... that is community wealth in action. Third spaces aren’t just nice to have, they’re critical infrastructure for a thriving future. Thank you for sharing this.
Cooperative natural gardening seems like it’s already popping up everywhere but it is annoying to me at least that so much is through Facebook or other meta platforms so an app could have utility here too
Thanks for making the space to. I’m a tech idiot. Genuinely. But it would be cool to have an app or web app that connects regional people with mls listings (or whatever the countries market listing service) and skills (from dry wall to cooking) that have potential for cooperative engagement. Might provide a means and direction for project engagement
Another thing to leverage is sporadic native nature gardening. I find most areas don’t know or care if you plant wild native edible plants. Sometimes domestication would be helpful which is obviously out of scope but still planting tubers like Camas where invasive are growing in BC, Canada seems viable. I have a few projects of this nature to try in the fall. One of my goals is free food sovereignty. Adding in silvopasture projects would be a dream someday. Again, it takes intensive management but can provide both ecological restoration and mass food production