P2P in Multi-Unit Housing

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Why P2P in Housing?

Everybody needs somewhere to sleep at night. Looking at P2P Housing can be done with a quick glance, or taken as a long term study through research and experimentation. Because P2P is generally focused on distributed systems and relational theory it is possible to use P2P theory to expose elements of housing and habitation to critique and possible improvement.

Areas of Interest for P2P in Multi-Unti Housing

P2P protocol and technology can be used in a number of distinct areas of a Multi-Unit housing project. There may be a number of ways that a housing group might come together. They might be in separate buildings, just a few units in one building, or perhaps every unit in one building. Regardless of the ways that buildings might work, this article is focused on the relationships between the residents, their housing, and all of the things that they create together as a group.

This is a list of entities in the P2P Housing network, with short descriptions. There may be more or less in your network. After this list are a few different ways of looking at the relationships among and between the entities.

  • A Resident is a single individual living in the housing network
  • The P2P Network is all residents
  • Owners - The P2P network plus all the perhaps external investors in the housing
  • Infrastructure - All the immoveable assets that are shared amongst the network
  • Culture - that created amongst and between the residents.
  • Ownership - How are relations between tenants influenced by the ways and means of ownership of the building? Is the ownership of the building an issue that mediates relations between people? Or is the ownership of the housing resource a means of allowing greater fluidity and freedom between people, acting effectively as a dis-intermediator.
  • Relationships between the occupants of the building
    • How do residents address each other? Simply as neighbors, or co-owners, or perhaps more?
    • How can neighbors come to trust and depend on each other?
    • What P2P practices can facilitate interchange between peers?
  • Relationships between the occupants and the physical infrastructure of the building
    • Is the building considered a part of the occupant's livelihood?
    • Does the occupant feel ownership?
    • Does the occupant feel inclined to steward and care for the building?
  • Culture of the occupants
    • Can residents be enabled, using P2P, to co-create a culture that is valuable and appreciated by those residents?
  • Systems for Multi-Unit Housing
    • How can P2P systems enable the occupants to:
      • Maintain or increase the value of their housing
      • Maintain or increase the value of the relations between neighbors
      • Maintain or increase the value of the culture in the housing
      • Lower or decrease the time or energy of residents needed to maintain or service their infrastructure

P2P Technology for Housing

P2P Ownership Modes

Multi-Layered Property

Questions arise concerning property definitions, and how various modes of property definitions co-exist, or trans-exist.

Hence, do nodes in a network of private property become commons ?

http://www.onthecommons.org/stem-cord-web-relationships

" the commons is concrete and graspable, both personally and collectively, because the commons is a node: a stem cord of a web of relationships. "

http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons

If property is considered as hierarchy, what does private property become in a distributed network of inter-dependent property ?

Such understanding related to peer property may be well documented in the field of knowledge, but what about housing ?

http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Property

Dante imagines that a "Rhiz-Home" project enables the creation of a commons, through a network of various forms of properties, as long as each of these properties enables inter-dependence, when choosing to "contribute" to the "Rhiz-Home".

Hence a commons becomes the results of the participation of individual properties, who benefit in choosing to participate by opening up their space, either punctually, either more permanently.

It are the conditions of such "meta inter-dependence" which may, according to Dante, determine the "Rhiz-Home".

Such conditions can be seen as a network, but also potentially as a multi layered set of property definitions.

Cooperatives by themselves may already have such kind of characteristics.

Can we develop architectures of networked property definitions that structurally make it possible to route around any centralized attempts on dependency and control ?


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