CACHED Housing
(Communally Assembling Conjuncted Homestyle Experience Development Housing)
+ Protecting the Lowest Common Denominator of ‘Social Value’
One problem with isolating and discriminating against poor people for poverty (i.e. holding those without responsible for not having – “get a haircut and get a real job…”), is that poor people a) aren’t always poor by choice, b) don’t necessarily enjoy being poor and c) don’t seem to have very much if anything in the way of proactive capacity to ameliorate their socio-financial considerations.
Think if how much money gets spent, purely on a utilitarian viewpoint, in terms of hunting down basically pedantic issues with police and court efforts. Take (for example) insignificant or nearly insignificant disturbances for example, where a member of the ‘distinguished public’ is affected by drinking in public, being lewd or vulgar in public, etc… Take again, for example, maybe prosecuting poor persons for minimal shoplifting cases,especially where those cases are matters of hunger and/or homelessness. Let’s take these examples a step further, where addicts are often scorned by the public for not having real work or for not contributing to society.
Let’s put a different spin on this now; the bark of the tree does little to carry water to the leaves. It does not contribute to photosynthesis and it doesn’t hold the tree in the ground. Yet still, the tree has bark, all trees have bark; a tree without its bark (quite frankly) would likely not be well off in terms of protection from the general and natural elements at large. Lets take into account poor people, sufferers of mental illness and addicts are people too. Scorning them is worse than condoning them, and not condoning them is pricey. Maybe inherently not to condone the negative action so much as to assist the positive qualities and capacities of those traits which do exist in the likeness of productive elements in and of themselves. There is a valid consideration that many individuals who ‘drift’ to he ‘fringes’ of society aren’t necessarily on the ‘outside’ by their decision. Scraping them off in the name of ‘purity’ or ‘sanity’ might not necessarily be the wisest maneuver for a society that doesn’t want to put up with always having an unbearably thin skin.
It is our JOB as a society to protect these people from not only themselves but from ourselves. The scorn, condemnation and lack of assistance our society typically portrays to the minimally ne’er-do-wells on the bottom rungs of our social manifest is not conducive to either a positive or protective social element; what’s more, ironically enough, a non-protective, proactive and/or productive social element is what we’re inherently accusing them and themselves of isn’t it?..
+ Architecturally Engineered for Utility, Durability and Low Maintenance
The housing complexes built within the scope of this project will be inherently designed for the handling of high-maintenance/heavy-duty lifestyles. Walls will likely as not be cinder block (with some kind of polymer veneer), floors will be painted concrete or tile, utilities will all be stainless steel and patrons can furnish and decorate their abode as to their personal desire to do so.
Utility
The design and architecture of the complex and its chattels have to be engineered and built in in such a way as to maximize utility for the patrons, allow for the most usage to come out of the least amount of viable action in terms of effort on behalf of the residents and management (in terms of requested repairs). Furthermore, chattels should have more than a singular purpose if possible and functional systems within the capacity of utilities purveyance (water, electric, gas, etc….) and/or communications management should be easy to use for residents, not overly expensive, quick to clean and easy to repair in terms of replacement logistics.
Durability
Inherently, a reality of the matter is that many people pass through the hallways of socially assisted housing units, and the ‘tolerance’ level of said housing (i.e. the capacity of and from the buildings themselves) must be functionally able to withstand both the the logical exertions and utility pressures of many of the lifestyles of people in said positions).
Low Maintenance
One of the problems associated with modern affordable housing the quick and high turnaround rates of some tenants. Utility and functional components of the units themselves must be easy to ‘re-enable’. It can’t involve the efforts of many people or too much work in order to re-engage or re-capacitate a recently used unit into becoming usable again (as operationally re-enabled).