Where do we want to steer the Neighborhood over the next 10-15 years? The Neighborhood’s goal is not to make money, but how might we make it at least self-sustaining? On the other end of the spectrum, if you had $100M, how would you spend it?

We’d love to hear your ideas. If you have Notion you can leave comments, otherwise you can email me.

The goal of this Ideas by date is to help contributors share context. This way, new conversations can build on old ones.

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Goals

• Fund community goods, like third spaces, makerspaces, daycares, schools, and events.
• Own key spaces (third spaces, coliving houses) in the Neighborhood so that we can make them beautiful and unique.
• Coordinate home purchases so that multiple Noasis-style “pocket neighborhoods” emerge, especially among groups of friends and compatible families.
• Create an environment in which children grow into psychologically whole, high-agency adults.
• Create the conditions, as best we can, for sceniuses to emerge.
• Ultimately, we’re about maximizing access to enjoyable, unplanned conversations*.* It’s Miracle-Gro for relationships and is (we believe) the core magic moment of coliving houses, university campuses, and walkable neighborhoods.

Note that maximizing profits is not on this list. We are doing this because we want to build a community we all want to live in long-term. Trying to extract value from a community is nearly always terrible for the quality of the community.

The Organizers all have other jobs, and Jason will make his full-time work on this project financially sustainable by becoming a licensed Realtor.

Best ideas, by category

Ideas by date

2022-08-22 misc monetization ideas

• VCs could pay us to house companies (Spencer Greenberg)
• Accelerators that need/want people to move to SF could pay us to locate them in TN
• A fund for investing in startup capital for standard businesses, such as local coffee shops (Eric Wollberg)