HackMD
2019-06-04 Dolphin Tank: Housing edition!
Welcome! 
If you're reading this, then you're welcome to contribute!
Date: Tue, June 4 2019 @ 7:30-9pm
Location: Myplanet
Host: @patcon :: Facilitator Guide 
Participants: (Slack)
- - @Laura Anone, @youlian, @patcon, (later) @KateS, @Laura L.P, @Prat, @Ken K
Notes
offered idea to workshop
- intros
- Patrick Connolly. interested in empowering grassroots organizing, and its sustainability. co-organizer. developer.
- Laura L.P (late-comer).
- Ken Kuchling. engineer. here to understand how to re-animate past app he built.
- Prat Sureka. tech+policy 10 years. new to toronto.
- Kate Skipton.
- Laura Anonen politics. cares about renovictions. works for councillor.
- :. UX, education. works in insurance. interested in property development on blockchain to improve access to gains. not technical.
- youlian.
housing rights and evictions (Laura Anonen)
- laura
- watching sidewalk labs convo
- seeing EPIC project in NYC, and curious about bringing it here #todo what project? add links laura
- helps people have information on evictions
- ken what can people do if they know?
- organize with others affected instead of working alone (collective action),
- mount legal defenses,
- have more sense of control instead of just panicking.
- how do ppl know about evictions?
- N-13 notices. (voluntary but central database of evictions)
- populated by tenant submissions?
- N-13 notices. (voluntary but central database of evictions)
- prat berlin is doing some interesting things. rent control act. one-of-kind legislation, to his best knowldge.
- #todo prat investigate berlin. share links
- rent legislation is all at provincial level
- current party in power is not supporting tenant rights, so solutions must be grassroots for now.
- city can't make laws about tenants without prov support.
- [name] best way to fight?
- laura embarrass the owners
- can fight the notices, but even knowing that's possible is a space for action
- legal aid clinic funding cut, so they're strapped thin already. community particularly important now.
- prat #todo investigate NESTA UK
- post-hacknight additions (things added after) patcon
- data driven project in NYC: https://map.displacementalert.org/
- people to say hi to:
- Lina Pulido. LinkedIn (on slack, active)
- Alyssa Brierly. LinkedIn (on slack, less active)
- Melissa Goldstein. LinkedIn (not on slack) https://twitter.com/erraticheretic
- Slack places to say introduce yourself in:
#t-affordable-housing(lina's channel for shared interest)proj-housing-rights(alyssa pending project channel)
blockchain property group-buy
- Concept Paper released: https://g-model.io/
- not technical, but learning blockchain
- math is in process of being checked
- having lots of conversations
- looking or technical blockchain partners, and more convos
- inspired by Debt: The First 5,000 Years (book)
Pirated version- feel debt is a bit sinister function in society
- they have become financial products
- system is largely static
- terms used: blockchain, initial coin offering (ICO), token generation events
- idea was heard as being about raising funds or crowdfunding for many (10,000 ppl) buying property token, and having access to returns of property at low buy-in.
- example: 10,000 investors at $1000 each for a $10,000,000 building with many 60 units
- not everyone can live in building, and so those who get to live there (decided through an out-of-scope mechanism, not necessarily technical) – these people get to slowly buy-out the tokens of the other investors, with modest dividends.
- those investors get a return that they wouldn't normally have access to, but goal is eventual ownership of property by those living there
- it's a token ecosystem
- patcon: how did others understand this
- crowdfund (all)
- : not actually associated with that in his mind, but many ppl say
- zeitgeist (?)
- shared economy (?)
- prat: The Entrpreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Myths in Risk and Innovation (book)
- splitting price of property (kate)
- like timeshare?
- like a co-op (laura anonen)
- REIT feels similar (ken)
- crowdfund (all)
- someone Why does other people invest [if they don't live there]?
- niall: dividends
- laura L.P this sounds kinda like mortgages, which as we know, have become commoditized. why is this different? Why won't it be commoditized?
- - : no longterm debt
- patcon: isn't that just because this is currently outside eyes of law? Is it any different from mortgage markets?
