Existenxmaximum - Atlas of Shared Living. Vol. III from Venice to Shanghai and back

Since housing is a highly complex system that only works in interaction with
different actors, for an introduction of a new type of socially housing, especially
one that works on an international level, the market requires the cooperation of
landowners, financing banks, architects and urban planners, the construction
industry and the local municipalities. Political and administrative framework
conditions, such as tax legislation, building and tenancy law, monument protection
regulations and funding programs, have a significant impact on investment
activities. All of those stakeholder groups have a common interest in the land use
of the city and must agree on a shared housing program.
Since the proposed type of housing is beneficial for the cities, the government
has to favor the construction of them by either comissioning the construction of
those house to third parties, either coming to an agreement with the banks to have
a lower interest rates that favor the investment in that type of construction. The
house is meant to be a catalyst for the sharing economy and transactional relations
between the residents and the city, and thus it may become the first model of
social housing that is also profitable and self-sufficient and autonomous in terms
of its maintenance. The construction (and reconstruction of the existing stock)
will involve additional resources and workforce, thus opening new possibilities
for the local construction, material and other supplier companies, opening new
workplaces. Same regards to the workplaces needed for the construction of the
digital infrastructure that has to be the backbone of the houses in the network.
So on the first phase of the global network launch those type of houses should
be constructed mainly by the government, private investors or corporations and
cooperatives of ineterested residents. After gaining its critical mass, the new
houses of the network would be ideally crowdfunded by the residents themselves.
Of course with the government still providing a substantial support.
Since those type of dwellings are places of transit like
airports or train-stations, they have to become places
of a special economic and legal zone, with their own tax
regulations and law regulations, that would consider
and favor the sustainable sharing.
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