@newstephie @webhat i mean, and also when you build a shed, not a house or apartment, when it has no insulation, no plumbing, no electricity, no heating or cooling ...
you can build sheds fast. you cannot get them approved for living in. and even if you could, then you'd have other housing advocates calling them inhumanely small
@beka_valentine @newstephie at the Christmas markets I've seen I'm pretty sure there's electricity and heating. They are selling freshly made food, hot and cold drinks and have strings of gaudy Christmas lights. They even have horrible heat lights for people who insist on sitting outside in cold weather and don't want to get cold
As for small, have you seen the 40ft shipping container housing projects for students?
https://ecocontainerhome.com/keetwonen-amsterdam-student-shipping-container-housing/
@beka_valentine @webhat @newstephie
“Look, this would be better than nothing!”
“It’s not good enough, let them have nothing.” 😞
When people are sleeping in card-boarded bus shelters (as I saw this morning in -15C weather) all the talk about code is just an excuse to continue to do nothing.
@beka_valentine @newstephie @webhat you mean, like my house. It isn't legal to live in, it's too small, it doesn't have any service connections, it's half a mile from the nearest road, it doesn't legally exist at all.
But I live in it, I've lived in it now for thirteen years, and I can afford to. Oh, and it cost £7,000 to build, because that was all the money I had; and it was sixteen days from starting the build to me moving in.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2013-04-14-the-winter-palace-as-philosophical-object/
@oliphaunt ah, you mean #StormArwen? Yes, that was as close to suicide as I've ever been. And I'm going to say: I'm still not fully recovered from that. Nine tenths of my wood is still too full of fallen timber to walk through, and I'm close to the point where I'm not going to be able to extract any more usable timber, both because it's too hard and too dangerous to get out and because it's inevitably starting to rot.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2021-11-27-the-storm/
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I did not expect the storm of the night of Friday 26th November to be exceptionally severe. I was aware that there was going to be a storm, and aware that the wind was expected to peak at a strength which rates as 'violent storm' on the Beaufort Scale. But such events are not actually that rare here. I made some preparations — I did close the cattle shed doors, for example, and fully fastened down the last new panel on the north side of the roof.
@oliphaunt
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So there's little chance of the wood again being an enjoyable space in my lifetime. I can't even get into it to replant. However, there is already some natural regeneration, a lot of it of alder, which feels positive.
In the meantime I've bought myself a sawmill and produced a great deal of usable timber. I'm using that timber to build homes for the people I will pass the croft on to, and the first of those is well advanced.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/W1HYf9LhCSUTHpg97
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What a wonderful archive and such a beautiful space you have created!
@beka_valentine @newstephie @webhat So build better ones! People DESERVE better ones.
This isn't rocket science.
It's amazing how quickly we can build something when it comes to making an immediate profit. But the needy, children and most senior citizens unfortunately pay poorly.
@newstephie *excellent* point!
@boscoandpeck @newstephie Except for himself and his employee (#FeloniousTrump) of course. They'll stay in their mansions.
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