[Homestead] Intentional Communities
Gene GeRue
genegerue at ruralize.com
Sun Jun 24 11:41:25 EDT 2007
> But to base on creating and maintaining actual value, as we see it,
> not
> imaginary financial value isn't the picture quite different?
Most people connote actual value as synonymous with financial value.
There is no imaginary financial value. Sellers offer property at a
price. Buyers respond with offers. The price paid at closing is the
actual and financial value.
Many of us value lots of things besides financial value. I love the
land I call Heartwood and I will live there until I choose to die. I
really don't care what its financial value is with the sole exception
of borrowable equity.
> Monocropping people isn't a successful model for these times.
It is the only model that returns strong financial gains. That's why
developers do it. Replacement of slums is always done with large
government subsidies.
> Kathyann, who spent part of childhood in one of Levittown's failures.
> (and other parts studying other communities in transition)
Bill Levitt was plowing new ground. Levittown was the genesis for
many, if not all future residential developments. All new designs
have flaws. They evolve. The last fifty years has seen hordes of
developers improving on Levitt's early model.
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