Grass Roots Housing

A proposal for an entirely new concept in the field of housing, written in the hope that sponsors will come forward and invest enough seed money to start a number of pilot projects. The proposal covers financing, design, social structure, principles of ownership, and rate of growth, and puts forward a process in which the owner is intimately involved in the evolutionary design and construction of his own house. In place of high interest rates and ruinous mortgages, it proposes a system that, with a very small initial investment, recycles the capital that it generates to begin more and more houses, without bank loans. The intention was to provide a solution to the most fundamental problems in the housing shortage, in many countries.