Disconnected conversations

How many unheard stories are out there in the world of how a broken capitalist approach to property has broken people, families and communities.

How many dreams, just like your, have gone unshared of how things could be better in your country.

How many conversations, just like ours, happen in your city every week.

How many people, just like us, living in your neighbourhood, wishing, willing and working a new way of living into being.

As always, its the connection between stories, dreams, conversations and people that matters and makes the difference.

Tell me a good story

It's about time we had a good story about housing.

We've had plenty of bad ideas, and plenty of bad stories: Leaky buildings, cold damp homes, unaffordable property, overcrowding, sprawl driving motorway construction... Surely it is about time we struck gold and had a good story to tell about it?

Or perhaps, the real issue is the bigger story. The one we tell ourselves about property. If our approach to property, as told by this story, is basically a bad one, we're unlikely to have any good ideas.

If we want good stories about housing, we need a better story about property.

One that isn't grounded in an individualistic, scarcity-driven, extractive, exploitative attitude, but is grounded in a 'we together', less-is-more, regenerative, multi-generational attitude.