How to Get Home

"I'm just here so I won't get fined" On homeownership as shelter from market forces and financial precarity

Housing shelters us from natural threats: weather, storms, cold, rain. Could home also be a refuge against the storms of capitalism? Could we also be shielded from the precarity of low wages, rising rents, public disinvestment?

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"I'm just here so I won't get fined" On homeownership as shelter from market forces and financial precarity

find yourself a home — maybe a significantly more affordable home than you could afford — that lets you rest, unequivocally, in a world that constantly asks you to give more and more and more. where you can rest is where you will be free. howtogethome.substack.com/p/im-just-he...

"I'm just here so I won't get fined" On homeownership as shelter from market forces and financial precarity

Humans originally developed shelter as security against the precarity of being exposed to snow, rain, and cold. What if we had a form of shelter against the precarity of being exposed to the market and capitalism? howtogethome.substack.com/p/im-just-he...

“Any tenant who is facing eviction is going to experience significant upheaval, personal trauma potentially… but also the challenges of a very, very competitive housing market.”

By: @njspotlightnews.bsky.social

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#housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+

tools like design thinking are of course worthy, so far as they are effective. but they are tools. and they must be oriented towards the aims that are worth of our lives: building homes where ALL can flourish, not just those with money and power.

the future of housing in this country is not "wellness" or "design thinking" or any other trend du jour. climate change doesn't care about "wellness."

the way through is resilience, mutual aid, and community investment. we must become home to each other.

so this is what the climate change tipping point feels like

And like where do you even go at this point? When you realize Trump is about to be president so absolutely nothing will be done to prevent this from happening again, it is pretty depressing.

I can’t begin to express how bad these fires are. Friends have evacuated to our house and other friends are packing up what they can to evacuate and we are wondering if we are going to have to evacuate too. It’s such a colossal shitshow.

It is kind of wild to watch in real time everyone lose their minds.

reminds me of elites bringing picnics to watch the battle of bull run

these LA fires feel like a turning point in how the insurance industry relates to climate change

HALT: Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired

never make a major decision — like choosing a house — when you’re feeling HALT. take a nap, a walk, a snack, go work out, etc.

Snickers was right

“modern philosophy has steered everything towards the city, but the future of the world can only be domestic.” - Emanuele Coccia, Philosophy of the Home

“we build homes to give a form of intimacy to the portion of the world […] that makes happiness possible” - Emanuele Coccia, Philosophy of the Home

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race - Good on Paper Have you ever heard a commonly held belief or a fast-developing worldview and asked: Is that idea right? Or just good on paper? Each week, host Jerusalem Demsas and a guest take a closer look at the f...

climactic changes pushed humans into agriculture and, therefore, sturdier architecture.

what could the coming climate changes mean for how we inhabit?

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How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing a book by Kc Davis An NPR Best Book of 2022 USA TODAY Bestseller This revolutionary approach to cleaning and organizing helps free you from feeling ashamed or overwhelmed by a messy home. If you're struggling to stay on...

tidying is morally neutral.

having a messy house does not make you less worthy of love.

your house is FOR YOU, not for performing for those who judge you.

book rec: how to keep house while drowning, by kc davis

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Underrated Original Sin of North American Urbanism:
Squarish blocks of narrow, too-deep parcels.

At 50' depth, interior spaces are compromised w/o side windows—especially as the building gets taller, it then requires horizontal expansion.

Observe 5-story row buildings vs. 9-story dumbbells in NYC:

Protect the Spruce & Pine Bike Lanes Sign this petition to show your support of the City's plan to make Spruce & Pine Streets safer for all users.

Thank you @bcgp.bsky.social & @bikeaction.org for joining our petition for safer Spruce & Pine Streets.

Do you live in Center City and support safer bike lanes? Sign the petition and we will let you know ways to advocate.

Or, I dunno, fewer cars parking in the bike lanes? Greater efforts to build protection?

Or worsening biking conditions on alternative roads?

“Private splendor,
Public squalor”

Capitalists want it
Liberals don’t oppose it
Leftists want to reverse it

rules of thumb:
1. patience. if we’re in a situation where we feel a need to hurry, we’re in danger of a rash S1 choice
2. curiosity. the more we can pry open the assumptions on which our decision is being made, the less power S1 has
3. discussion. open communication between buyer and agent is key

it shouldn’t be such an emotional choice, but it often is. and this leads to poor decisions.

to slow the automatic system (S1) down and bring more reflection into the process is the trick. but it’s surprisingly hard, especially once the buyer gets emotionally attached to a decision.

the decision of which home to buy is widely believed to be a measured, rational process. it is NOT.

Kahneman and Tversky were right: in a situation with such limited information and time, the automatic, rapid decision making system takes over.

choosing a home is EMOTIONAL.

i love philly

Where Did Everyone from Tidewater Gardens Go? Part II 1 bedroom asking rent fell, everything else rises. And we're digging deeper on Tidewater relocation and race.

Part II: When Norfolk tore down its majority-Black public housing, they promised residents the right to return. Instead they ended up in majority-Black, low-income, neighborhoods.

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#race #housing #hud #rent #virginia #evictions

Where Did Everyone from Tidewater Gardens Go? A lot hinges on 1%. And for the first time since we’ve started tracking, asking rents fell.

Four years ago the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority began tearing down public housing in Norfolk, displacing hundreds of families. They say families moved to better neighborhoods. So where did everyone really end up?

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