Solving Housing

OSE Whitepaper: Solving Housing

Package this like an annual report, where good graphics provide perspective, but this is very much established in a clear plan of action and visible results.

And provide testimonials from people served.

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Issues List - To Be Prioritized

1. Supply chain - latest in 2022 is garage doors - [1] - such that closing is delayed or temp doors are installed. Build times of 1 year instead of 7 months reported due to the recent garage door issue.
2. Optimize existing house aid efforts - ex, If an organization that is an international travel agency charges people as 'aid tourism' and low skill level ends up not finishing a house. OSE can provide finishing school, ie, faster build time and optimized design via Extreme Manufacturing swarms. And, fix Aid Tourism in the first place.
3. Building optimized housing using Integrated Efficiency and Universal Design not requiring constant remodeling as you go through different phases of your life.
4. Producing digital housing - with a full digital model, scalability can arise via 6Ds of Disruption
5. Create a 3 month training mechanism for new builders to get up and running completely, to deliver upon orders acquired in distributed operations worldwide
6. A continuing product dev mechanism, funded by sales from the education organization. Product sales combine with apprenticeships and tuition to deliver new house builders, and houses built.
7. Open source supporting equipment, based on lifetime design, provides low cost support infrastructure
8. Creating land for new regenerative settlements, and taking land out of speculation.
9. Cooperative Housing

Facts and Figures

• 300k houses short in the USA 2020 [2]
• 8M people USA pay at least 50% of their income on housing [3]

Notes

• Sell at 'market value' ie cost comparable to what is available, but provide productive capital, not a liability. Such as microfactory production or energy production. Such as microgrids - where if we educate the city departments, we can have a flexible energy production infrastructure on the scale of communities. This takes getting past big utility lobbies or just plain resistance. Blockchain microgrids are a natural solution.
• See Selling Power Back to the Grid
• Brownsville is the most dense public housing area in the USA - [4]

Industry Standards

What are the known issues that the industry communicates as pain points?

• Digibilt - [5]

Proposed Opinions

• Proposing public-owned housing, like social security. You pay down a rent, until you 'own', but you don't really own, though you can draw value from your fund. [6]. Sold at market value. What does that solve, though?
  • Probably solves the issues of rent vs ownership etc User: Eric
• Community land trusts: a non-profit that owns land and takes it off the speculative market, creating a parallel market that is permanently affordable.

Global Perspective

1. The Communist Block - [7]. MJ verification - my Polish youth apartment had small rooms with fold-out beds for the kids. Parents still own this after provatization. However, it was a comfy apartment in the Block. Everyone from a scientist to a factory worker lived in these - and the social conditions were not the ghetto of racist American project housing.