How are we supposed to transform our economies, when we're stuck working 40 hours per week?

From Vienna, to Singapore, to the changing worlds around us, explore what it could look like for us to adopt social housing in our own backyards and communities ... giving us time to grow food, build systems and infrastructure, shape renewable energy systems, move to new forms of production, and manage and steward local landscapes, to get what we need locally. And how social housing, could lead to other major changes as well ...

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Acknowledgements

Kirsty Lang's writing on the Vienna housing system: https://www.ft.com/content/05719602-89c6-4bbc-9bbe-5842fd0c3693

Julia Steinberger's work on "Decent Living with Minimum Energy": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378020307512?via%3Dihub#b0145

Chris Baulman and Alexander Baumann's work on the paradox of housing and degrowth

Peter Dynes on repeated calls to scale down our economies

MEER and Peter Yao on locked-in warming

Rhodri for sharing the information about CO2-linked plant malnutrition: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221103120048.htm

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's stories and perspectives from "As We Have Always Done": https://www.leannesimpson.ca/book/as-we-have-always-done

Kyle Whyte's perspectives and research: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2514848618777621?journalCode=ene

Learning about subsistence cultures from many voices in the Global South and Indigenous communities

Kris De Decker's work on Low Tech Magazine: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/03/urban-fish-ponds-low-tech-sewage-treatment-for-towns-and-cities.html

Cory Doctorow's explanation of England's Enclosure Act on the Douglas Rushkoff/Team Human podcast

David Graeber for perspectives on jubilee and cultural experimentation

Donella Meadows for highlighting the importance of changing the way we see

Daniel Nichanian's reporting on ballot referendums to cancel medical debt

Max Ajl's work in "A People's Green New Deal": https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48775

The People's Agreement of Cochabamba: (https://pwccc.wordpress.com/support/)

And many more influences be thanked and named, in a coherent way! #housing #neighborhood #economics #climatechange #government #degrowth #politics #education

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