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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Intentional Communities
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:41:25 -0700

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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