Housing sufficiency Ensuring everyone has affordable, sustainable housing

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The current system builds luxury apartments while people sleep on the streets. This policy ensures housing is sufficient for all, without excess.

Policy Objective - Ensuring everyone has affordable, sustainable housing

The current system builds luxury apartments while people sleep on the streets. This policy ensures housing is sufficient for all, without excess.

Urban Planning Policy Instruments 👇

Remember: Policy instruments are the means by which governments can achieve the degrowth goals/objectives we urgently need!

💡 Translation: We need more community-oriented housing, not just more houses.

🏡 Encourage social housing, co-housing cooperatives, eco-villages, and multi-generational living.

🛖 Support squats, urban villages, transition towns, and eco-communes.

💡 Translation: Cities should be sustainable, not just endless concrete and cars.

🌞 Support self-sufficient heating, cooling, energy, and water use.

🍽 Promote local food production through edible landscapes and community gardens.

♻️ Ensure zero-waste practices, returning organic material to the soil.

🚶 Design walkable, bike-friendly cities to cut car dependency.

💡 Translation: Move from ownership to usership—share resources instead of hoarding them.

🚲 Encourage shared transport, tools, kitchens, and community spaces.

🍽 Expand free or low-cost provision of communal cooking and food storage.

💥 Housing should be for living, not for speculation.