Housing Solution pioneers are forming communities of tinier living retreats outside cities.
Sustainability means learning how to live simply, w/ less mansion, more time for wealth thru love, & family nurturing, a return to spiritual & holistic value systems.
There is a trend to have less stuff, to live more of a minimalist lifestyle that allows the younger generations to be more mobile, job-fluid, and not have to work a 40-50 hour weeks to survive and live a comfortable lifestyle with less debt and responsibility. Unfortunately, that includes getting married, having a family, and dealing with the stress of such commitments. For the Baby Boomers, this is a period of downsizing to fit the savings they have for retirement, if any, based on statistics, likely now an inadequate reserve to live out their life on after 63 when most had hoped to retire. The inflation has eliminated the possible work-free lifestyle most had planned would be possible on Social Security and retirement plans from giant corporations that bankrupted their way out of retirement benefits for millions of auto workers, along with IBM and once stalwart employers of the corporate world that would never leave their faithful employees behind. They did, and many are suffering now, with no way to recoup losses from stock market crashes, inflation that outpaced savings incomes, and the insane rise in the cost of living overall, not just fuel or food.
Many million of people are changing, forced out of jobs, life long occupations that AI is assuming as it expands its learning and functioning in many areas once called careers by people. As it turns out, many of the simple functions of research and analysis do not need humans; likewise, phone jobs in sales, customer service, and retail positions such as cashiers. All these jobs, plus lawyers, architects, real estate agents, and many other once secure licensed careers that feed families are disappearing rapidly. The problem is that as more people lose jobs and have no other employable skills. What happens to them? How are they being re-educated and trained to do other things to create income to feed themselves, pets, and family?
To combat this, many are shrinking their housing size and thus costs. They are reassessing what is most essential and realizing having extra rooms in their houses full of stuff with no significant value, especially collections of things like Beanie Babies, baseball cards, clothes, or what has become trash. Soon, the number of people living with relatives as adults who would be homeless otherwise will look to solutions that allow for more people to live on their land together than building codes presently allow, thus creating new ways to add density to the residential areas, such as adding tiny houses behind the big original dwellings.
This is a trend that will grow, and I want to help make that happen in a healthy, sustainable way by using the Salvage Mining, Salvage Building, and Salvage Hunting platform to save energy, stop importing materials for housing, and save energy costs to build, the environmental cost of creating all new building materials instead of recycling 95% of the materials to be used as is possible. While that is a high standard and ratio of salvage to new materials, it is possible and can be done to look beautiful, too. I have proven that.
As for the demand… it is high. The need is great, but the supply lines are not there to fill in and distribute to where there is a great need for building materials and labor to create them. I envision Pure Salvage Outposts as cooperatives that act as learning and building centers locally. That allows for both local salvage, building, and shipping surplus resources from old buildings or houses to other towns to bring home new income for the local’s kids and workers who do not have to go to the cities for jobs if they can thus be created locally along with reducing the housing costs, city utility loads due to needing less power for tiny house communities than large subdivisions of McMansions. Once these communities get established, with gardens and common areas to share, they save energy and time for all who live there and can create healthier environments, local schooling, and safe places to live rather than high-density crime areas that are growing, especially in sanctuary cities that are seriously short on housing.
These outposts would have space to build a few houses inside, then roll them into the yard once they have dried to finish and move to nearby villages. Elders with skills could be employed to teach others who wish to learn and then farm out contracts to build houses and create a standard with inspections to ensure the quality is maintained for those who invest and share in the growth of intentional communities where lifelong leases for houses to sit without buying the land will be secure. The cost of keeping a home on land would not escalate with taxation until it is no longer affordable by capping the tax rates in the future when the communities are created. If such endeavors could be fueled initially with the inventories I have in stock now, by the time I ran out, hundreds of houses would have been built to prove this viable, and the profits would be recycled into growing this into a national chain of virtually independent Co-ops that grow and support the network of distributing the Salvaged materials mined and create the housing from it that will keep people off the streets and save in tiny homes they can then pass on to loved ones, possibly to be moved on to other villages nearby where the younger people live instead of an elderly colony.
This is possible now that the world is going through economic upheavals and transformations not imagined only a decade ago. Soon the need for housing as families reconsolidate will make this model for creating new housing a thriving path to success for many who seek a home for themselves and their loved ones. It doesn't have to be a giant home to be happy, but a healthy home is important. Cheap unhealthy housing is not a solution and it will not lead to long term growth of healthy communities but more beat up slums with mobile homes stacked all about, full of mold and unrepairable after 10 years of use. There is a better path to housing for the millions who desperately need it as they face a cost to be in apartments, condo, and house rental that have become insane and prohibitive. This is a path to solving a portion of the growing demand for smaller more affordable housing that is also sustainable and will last more than the normal built-in-obsolescence period of 7-15 years until worthless.
Please consider a way to help start a Pure Salvage Outpost as a local Co-op for inspiring Salvage Mining, Salvage Building, and creating solutions out of the treasures of our past instead of creating more pollution and cutting down more trees, using oil to form more glass from sand, and the many other things that can be saved, from doors to floors that will save the world for those yet to be born. Give the world resources a break and slow the pollution created by making more building materials.