Alignment is becoming a bit of a buzzword. Especially if you hang around young business-types or recent MBA grads.
I like to think of it as a-line-meant. Bring a bunch of things (points) onto a line, so that everything works the way you meant it to.
Did you know you need to have a least three things In order to bother aligning anything? If you only have two, there’s always a straight line connecting them both. They’re in alignment. So if you’r working on aligning two things, the first thing is to stop and figure out what the third thing is that you’re trying to align them with.
Trying to align the pieces of a property system is tricky. There seems to be so many moving parts of the system, let along determining the pieces that make up the goal or a more just, equitable society.
Or perhaps, we’re just making it complicated. At it’s most basic, we want every person to own and live in a stable, affordable, healthy, environmentally sustainable home.
Own a home: because ownership is more than property rights.
A home: Because nobody can be in two places at once.
Stable: Because mindset matters.
Healthy: Because.
Environmentally sustainable: If you don’t know why, you probably shouldn’t be reading this blog.