#1.) Allocate the 18+ million abandoned properties throughout the U.S. to prospective homesteaders

#2.) Re-allocate the $20 billion/year used to fund Section 8 to buy out Landlords & *give rental spaces to Tenants*

     This section of our national plan goes hand-in-hand with our proposed Civilian Restoration Corps (“CRC”).

Streamlining the Plan; Logistics:

• C. R.C. employees will perform necessary repairs (e.g. electrical, plumbing, foundation, roofing) and install clean energy units (e.g. solar).

• Homesteading Starter Kits and Educational Materials will help new homeowners on their path toward self-sufficiency and becoming responsible homeowners.

Homesteading Starter Kits
Coming in 2019:

Full Plan in One Downloadable PDF:

Wild Willpower’s National Housing Solutions Petition

 

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References:

[1]: National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, 2007:   http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/How_Many.html

[2]: The Mind Unleashed, “18,600,000 vacant homes in the United States. Enough for every homeless person to have six!”: http://themindunleashed.com/2014/02/18600000-vacant-homes-united-states-enough-every-homeless-person-six.html

[3]:  National Alliance to End Homelessness. The State of Homelessness in America. 2015:  http://www.endhomelessness.org/library/entry/fact-sheet-veteran-homelessness

[4]:  National Coalition of Homeless Veterans:  http://nchv.org/index.php/news/media/background_and_statistics/

[5]: “More than 7 million housing units than needed to house the population”: www.wildwillpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1-Wild-Willpowers-National-Housing-Solutions-Petition-1.pdf

[6]:  “Ten percent of populations owns 82% of real estate, & 5% owns 75% of that land”: End Game Research: Federal Reserve Bank data in Left Business Observer, April 3, 1996, p. 5 and Geisler, Rural Sociology 1993, 58(4): 532-546, collected by “The Land Lords: Some Facts”: http://www.endgame.org/landlords-facts.html

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   Lastly here’s a relevant quote by Bill Mollison on “making peaceful revolutions actually work” from PermacultureMag.org: