Empty Streets With Lonely New Unsold Homes

[Oregon Becky]

I was driving past, yet again, another little development with a row of new houses standing empty and unsold. Builders, banks and real estate people own them. They don't want to own them. A bunch of us could buy them, you know.

Our ASD community has regular incomes from disabilities. We have care givers who would have regular jobs from those regular incomes. We could have foster homes with regular incomes where there wouldn't be neighbors who would object to them being there because we'd be our own neighbors! We could have family members and care givers buying some of the houses and sharing the load. The incomes aren't enough when we go it alone but together, as a community, we are rich!

How many lawnmowers does on need for one street of homes?
How great would a community vegetable garden be?
How often does someone really need a truck, or a car, or a van? One for each house or for each community?
Community means you have neighbors who might know how to play guitars and sing, while you know how to play the drums so have at it.
Community means that when you need a cup of oatmeal, you don't have to jump into your car and run to the store. You can ask your neighbor. Save and pool your resources.

I'm picturing finding a real estate agency, finding the builders who are stuck with the houses, finding a mortgage bank, finding mentors who know how to do this stuff and then sending out the word to the ADS community and the DD community, in general and tell them that there is a vacant street where we're having a huge open house and brainstorming session.