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Foundation Housing Talk at SoCap 2014
I had the opportunity to introduce Foundation Housing at the Social Capital Conference yesterday. Fun. This is a conference for people trying to figure out how to invest in things that have humanitarian benefits. Foundation Housing may be a new … Continue reading
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Creating Free and Open Societies
Creating Free and Open Societies From Free and Open Source Software, to Non-profit High-tech Organizations, to Debt-free Affordable Housing Brewster Kahle, the club, May 12, 2014, cc-by v3 msword pdf tl;dr summary: Public Licenses Rule (in software and … Continue reading
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Corporations are 1st Generation AI’s
Corporations are 1st generation AI’s Just as computers started out being made out of people, AI’s are starting out being made of humans humans to operate their processes, to be the actors of the Corporations But fewer humans are needed … Continue reading
Foundation Housing: Permanently Affordable Housing in San Francisco Pitch
I had the pleasure of meeting with a district supervisor of San Francisco, Jane Kim, and found the #3 priority on her whiteboard was “Non-Profit Displacement”, and #1 was “Balanced Housing”. So Foundation Housing would fit in both categories. I … Continue reading
Debt -> Obligation -> Expectation -> Opportunity
Unfortunately society as a whole seems to be going the other way– for mortgage/rent, for education, for cars– it is all debt, all the time. I suggest we should reverse the trend. Debt gets you in trouble. You owe, … Continue reading
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Raw Cookie Dough without the Stomach Ache
My mother loved to bake cookies, and would make huge batches of cookie dough and freeze them. This led me to develop a love of raiding the freezer. While I could eat a dozen baked cookies, I would get a … Continue reading
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When Market Rents Break People, Some Try Fixes…
We are very far from the local control and local ownership of housing that was the norm 100 years ago. Not that everything was rosy then, but we can see the thorns of our current system. Some are trying some … Continue reading
If the ‘safety-net’ that went from Church to Government now goes to Non-Profits then we have work to do!
From the middle ages through the 1800’s, the “social safety net” in the west used to be offered by “the Church” (which church varied by region). Think about schools, alms for the poor, asylums, hospitals– many or most were administered … Continue reading
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High Stakes Testing– is Failing
Diane Ravitch’s book The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education was a thoughtful antidote to the highly touted movie Waiting for “Superman” . A clue that that movie was a … Continue reading
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Article on Sharable about Foundation Housing
I think the writer, Jessica Conrad, did a great job on this article about Foundation Housing for an interesting periodical Sharable, and also the same article was put up on On The Commons. Recommended.
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