**Free House** is the term used by Radicle Civics for the concept of aapplying self-ownership to proprperty. The idea extendis this as far as I can tell to include th classic architectural concerns regarding sustainability of materials.
We like the re:purposing of this term. We imagine it's use for community spaces such as pubs, and look to use it for Astral Ship and the Perma Village.
Radcle Civics
> Paradigm shift – what if a house and their component parts could own themselves?
**Free House** would be connected to open and dynamic registries of ongoing performance and product data, containing information constituent materials, processes, verified embodied impacts, and live performance.
Materials are typically determined up-front cost or convenience, rather than the long-term performance of the home, or its impact on our health and wellbeing.
Material registry – air quality, humidity, temperature, energy use intensity, noise, and further information about a building component’s whole life impact and performance are logged in a verifiable registry, allowing us to understand and contract for the combined effects of the house design.
This allows for new models of analysis and interaction within the home; from understanding day-to-day fluctuations, to the longer micro-impacts on our health and wellbeing.
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> Financing a house – what if a house could pay for themselves?
The house issues bonds through a civic trust in order to generate funding to build themselves. The civic trust may comprise co-beneficiaries or service providers of the house, which could include future residents, public interest developers, energy suppliers, and other civic organisations.
Examples: - DAO - Commons-centric institutions - Smart Perpetual Bond
# See also - Free House - House In One Night