This is really intressting, as it includes:
- the future tenent to actually design the home and helps built it
- local manfuactruing of parts of the home as prefab elements
- community land trust to make sure the house remains a low cost rental option
Obviously it is not perfect, but it is imho a pretty good idea and shows what is possible. Obviously other construction techniques might be used and the way they got the land is rather UK specific, but I believe something similar is possible in a lot of different places and it supports the weakest by providing some cheap good shelter.
rather UK specific
pressure from the pandemic finally broke some of the restrictions California had against installing ADUs, but, as !fuck_cars@lemmy.ml is more than happy to point out, the US leans heavily on single family zoning across most of the country – installing a secondary unit on a property means fighting both building codes and zoning codes at municipal, county, state, and national levels …
