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This is why I decided to run for election.

The Housing Crisis affects us all.

#WeAllThrive #Democratise #Decentralise #Decarbonise #Waterford #Tramore #Dungarvan #Lismore #WaterfordCity #WorkersAndCarers #Local #LocalMedia #LocalNewspaper #EcoSocialist #Progressive #Independent #IrishPolitics #Ireland #Irish #HomesForAll #HousingForAll #HousingCoops #RentControls #CoopHousing #Cooperatives #RentIndex #PublicHousing #FiannaFáil #FineGael #HousingCrisis #ViennaModel

My editorial on Waterford News & Star:

https://www.waterford-news.ie/sponsored/i-will-fight-for-universal-homes_arid-38926.html

#WeAllThrive #Democratise #Decentralise #Decarbonise #Waterford #WorkersAndCarers #Local #LocalMedia #EcoSocialist #Progressive #Independent #IrishPolitics #Ireland #Irish #IrishNews #Deise #Localism #Déise #GE2024 #IrishElection #Democracy #Housing #Tenants #TenantsUnion #TenantUnion #TenantRights #UniversalHomes #HomesForAll #HousingForAll #HousingCoops #RentControls #CoopHousing #Cooperatives #RentIndex #PublicHousing

I Will Fight For Universal Homes - editorial in this week's Waterford News & Star!

#WeAllThrive #Democratise #Decentralise #Decarbonise #Waterford #Tramore #Dungarvan #Lismore #WaterfordCity #WorkersAndCarers #Local #LocalMedia #LocalNewspaper #EcoSocialist #Progressive #Independent #IrishPolitics #Ireland #Irish #IrishNews #Deise #Localism #Déise #GE2024 #IrishElection #Democracy #UniversalHomes #HousingForAll #HousingCoops #RentControls #CoopHousing #Cooperatives #RentIndex #PublicHousing

A photo of a sponsored editorial in Waterford News & Star which reads:

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have failed our generation. Many of those I know struggle to afford rent despite having good jobs. Others were pushed out of the country, away from their communities, friends and families, in order to be able to obtain a better quality of life in Sydney, Vancouver, or elsewhere in Europe. I always tell people that I am experiencing the ‘Irish Dream’ of living with my parents in my late twenties; just like roughly 2 in 3 people my age (68% of those who are 18-34 years old). Everyone knows that these parties continue to ruin our chances of getting a home, and it’s easy to point out their economic illiteracy (or nefarious incompetence) in housing policy, but it is a much more challenging task to highlight a radical, positive, and tangible alternative vision for a better housing system.

In this editorial, I will attempt to do so; in detailing this, I bring my experience in tenants’ unions in recent years, both as an active member of Living Rent Tenants’ Union in Scotland and as a founding member of CATU (Community Action Tenants’ Union) Waterford, in addition to my personal experience living and renting in various cities and countries throughout Europe. I have extensively researched the various housing models in existence across the world, and one stands out for its complete success in avoiding a Housing Crisis despite existing within an economy built on Western values and facing a

Hey smart people! My wife and a number of our friends and I are working on a plan to "co-house/start a cult/live closely together" kind of thing. We're at the stage where we need to set up a system for sharing ideas and thinking through possibilities, discussion, sharing examples of housing arrangement models, etc. There are so many different aspects to figure out and just chatting on FB, e.g., isn't cutting it. Email, too, seems too cumbersome. So maybe a kind of online project development/management platform (I'm not a business kind of guy at all, so I don't know all the lingo). Something free, accessible to everyone and "user-friendly" in the extreme would be great.

I have my own domain and can install software there if there is something that's worth trying.

Any ideas? Have you done anything similar? What system(s) did you use? All thoughts welcome! Thanks! #projectManagement #cohousing #coopHousing #cohabitation #communityLedHousing

You will hear a lot of promises from @FineGael @fiannafailparty and @greenparty_ie about housing over the next month.

But in reality, they've not even begun to end the Housing Crisis in the past 5 years.

Things have gotten worse. They can't be trusted.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/1023/1476947-respond-annual-report/

#HousingCrisis #Homelessness #Ireland #IrishPolitics #FinancialisedHousing #PublicHousing #CoopHousing #StateConstruction #IrishElection #GE2024

These are housing solutions we need rather than continuing to rely on the private market to lead for solving our housing crisis #housing #Canada #renting #cdnpoli #coophousing #rentcontrol #REIT https://canadians.org/analysis/concrete-steps-to-tackle-the-affordable-housing-crisis/

Season 4 episode 2: Solarpunk Considers Cohousing, with Hermina Joldersma

In this episode, Ariel talks to Hermina Joldersma, professor emerita at University of Calgary, about alternative housing arrangements, focusing on cohousing. They discuss not only Hermina’s experiences living in different types of housing, but the mindset necessary to cohousing and communal life, and the way that community often has to be intentionally created. Tune in now!

https://youtu.be/-pF1Gj1Wxg4?si=tLPI5QFNk3H2uS2n

#Episode #Season4 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #housing #AffordableHousing #CooperativeHousing #CoopHousing #CommunalLiving #Roommates #Apartments #Condominiums #shelter

Season 4 episode 1: Solarpunking Housing, with Ariel & Christina

In this kick-off of Season 4, Ariel and Christina tackle the topic of housing. How could solarpunk expand its dreams of housing beyond the aesthetic and into the realm of the practical? It is one of the central imaginings of solarpunk, after all. And it’s something we’re not doing very well in the present.

Can solarpunk envision not just greenery and solar-panel-draped dwellings, but housing that would meet people’s needs, not just for shelter, but comfort, mental health, emotional and physical support, ease of access, friendship and community, and culture, while also being affordable to everyone, energy efficient, and not contributing to urban sprawl? It seems like a tall order, but we want to make it a present reality. Tune in as we discuss!

https://youtu.be/Mc1UTOQW0go?si=WFLShyAl5e5zlsQf

#Episode #Season4 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #housing #AffordableHousing #CooperativeHousing #CoopHousing #CommunalLiving #Roommates #Apartments #Condominiums #shelter

Meanwhile in Dublin, powerful businesses ask the unelected council CEO to allow the undemocratic An Bord Pleanála to overrule the elected politicians.

We have no hope in making Ireland a place in which we can all thrive until we empower our democracy.

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2024/0627/1457044-dublin-transport-plan/

#UrbanDesign #PublicServices #Dublin #Undemocratic #LocalDemocracy #Cities #Democracy #LiveableCities #BuildingThrivingCommunities #PublicHousing #CoopHousing #PublicTransport #DemocratiseLocalGovernment

Hmm so it turns out that if you build affordable co-op and public housing, and provide great public transport and healthcare in a city, people love living there 🤔🤔

Someone should let those in power here know about this big revelation!

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2024/0627/1457012-most-liveable-cities/

#UrbanDesign #PublicServices #Vienna #Cities #Democracy #LiveableCities #BuildingThrivingCommunities #PublicHousing #CoopHousing #PublicTransport

What is 'communal living' and is it right for me?
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248216390/what-is-communal-living-and-is-it-right-for-me

* aka intentional communities, co-housing, co-ops, communes
* not simply living under one roof as roommates; rather, long-term commitment to intertwine their lives together
* communal: housemates share resources like food, skills like gardening, domestic responsibilities
* Seattle WOW House: Wild Old Women (queer women)
* wonderful way to make connections and create family

#commune #coops #CoopHousing #Seattle

This co-op illustrates how energy-efficient buildings are more affordable in the long term and is a good model for communities looking to address the housing crisis #housing #housingcrisis #coophousing #energyefficiency https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/04/30/news/energy-efficient-affordable-housing-model

More stories from The Local's Finch West issue!

By Kunal Chaudhary: "In the 1980s, aircraft workers in Malton were struggling to find housing—so they built their own. What can this obscure Rexdale housing co-op teach us today?" https://thelocal.to/housing-co-ops-rexdale-maurice-coulter/

Daysha Loppie writes about growing up on the 36 Finch West, and the longstanding divide between Rexdale and the rest of Toronto: https://thelocal.to/36-finch-west-bus-rexdale-transit-disconnected/

#toronto #transit #PublicTransit #AffordableHousing #CoopHousing

@AlisonCreekside @douglaspynn@mstdn.ca
Everybody has heard this stuff :

If the federal government had kept building housing co-ops and #SocialHousing in the 1990s, we would have exactly the number of houses that we are lacking in the country today, available at rents like mine 🏠
#rant #coopHousing #vanpoli #canpoli #bcpoli

@AlisonCreekside @douglaspynn@mstdn.ca
Or actually, I live in a
housing #Coop outside the gambling scheme, so I pay $700 a month rent in Gastown

While my neighbors in the “market” rate building next-door pay $2000 a month for a similar unit. Because homes are just markers on gambling tables 🎰

#rant #coopHousing #vanpoli #canpoli #bcpoli

So the city co-op federation has an award for if your age + the amount of time you've lived in co-op housing >= 100.

I don't even add up to 50, but I feel all the board meetings I've sat in have added on a solid 50 years. I should apply

#CoopLife #CoopHousing #housing

RT by @coop_57: Comezando a xornada de #CoopHousing Un novo xeito de habitar
#Cooperativas
#EconomíaSocial https://nitter.net/AOlveira81/status/1319192234261176320#m

"...I do not think we should just accept that when we marry and start families, we atomize, and our friendships, like our taste in music, freeze where they were when we were young and single. We shouldn't just accept a way of living that makes interactions with neighbors and friends a burden that requires special planning." https://www.vox.com/2015/10/28/9622920/housing-adult-friendship #cohousing #housing #urbanplanning #suburbs #sprawl #isolation #baugruppen #coop #coophousing

#CoopHousing

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