This is my dream!!!
I intend to spend the rest of my life working to manifest NewTown as an integrated and ecological residential, commercial, light industrial, hospital/medical, university, retail and office complex. Rather than attempting to find the right people and buy land together, NewTown begins with the end in mind by first building a NewTown permaculture eco-village with the assistance of a professional co-housing developer and an organization such as Habitat for Humanity that specializes in affordable housing. This NewTown nucleus serves as the community center.
This approach leverages the high success rate of developer-assisted co-housing during the critical seed phases. The community will evolve as people gravitate towards the excitement of the various projects. In other words, build the infrastructure and the people who are drawn to it will come.
NewTown is a mixed-use project that includes a university or university extension program for lifelong learning, teaching hospital, office and retail space, and dormitories, apartments, and town-homes. The retail section contains worker-owned and other cooperative retail establishments. All NewTown elements are fully integrated using co-housing and permaculture principles with the initial development phase taking place over 10 – 20 years.
By providing living and working spaces for all members on a shared-equity basis, NewTown effectively eliminates poverty for all members.
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