This is why I decided to run for election.

The Housing Crisis affects us all.

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My editorial on Waterford News & Star:

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

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

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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/

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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

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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

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