The investment and construction industry have financialized housing. What should be a fundamental human right, has been recast as a way to park and grow capital. This industry is not set up to provide what cities need.

If we want to make and keep our cities vital we need to put people first and profit second. We need to adjust the system and provide suitable housing. If cities can encourage and maintain a thriving population of citizens, the economy will follow.

Resident owned co-housing can play a vital role in guiding us to a new system that does provide the housing we need. Affordable housing for the contemporary working-class.