Ein WuppHaus Konzept aus verschiedenen Quellen (in ENG)

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Ownership

The house/property should be legally owned by an entity that is comprised of people to whom the house is very important and who would “live there” a majority of the time (at least to begin with).

A German e.V. would probably be most suitable for this.

In its statutes (Satzung) it would be stated that, if this project fails (due to bankruptcy or dissemblance) the house would go to a secure entity (with not just one person making decisions) dedicated to demarketizing buildings and making them available to similar projects/communities. Possibly the “Gemeinschaftsstifter” foundation?

Goals and use of the house

“Wupping” and “living” and learning space for everybody who identifies with the vision of yunity and similar projects/movements.

Also a space where people who want to get to know the concept and “our way of living” can experience it firsthand.

Wupping/Working

A base for projects related to the global effort for change, unconditional sharing, sustainability, political awareness, social freedom. These projects can be initiatives like yunity but also personal projects.

Living

As the space would be a living space for people involved in different projects and with different daily routines, most spaces in the house would be functional and communal. This concept is also very much in balance with our general vision of unconditionally sharing everything and thus making use of it in the best and most sustainable way. Some rooms would be “safe” rooms for a specific time, i.e. someone could “live” there for hours/days/weeks until someone else also requires the room and/or a fixed max. period of time has elapsed.

Residents / Guests

The house is open and everyone is welcome.

Initially there would be a group finding phase combined with the renovation/refurbishing of the house.

Learning

A learning space would be created, seminar rooms for workshops and knowledge/skill sharing. This could be for groups and for individuals. Learning by living (in such an atmosphere) Rooms with books, materials, a workshop and people with knowledge to share.

Social interaction / conflict resolution / decision making /

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“who gets to live there?”

maybe initially we check who actually wants to live there in the very near future (meaning moving in within the first few month of its existence and staying for a longer period of time). It would be good to include these people in the process of creating a framework for the housing situation
it might be wise to group the interested people in categories of (1) absolutely want to move in right away, (2) would move in if there is still free space available,
if the number of people does not exceed the available space a lot the question of who gets to live there can be solved over time - the then obtained experience could help with these kind of decisions
do we want to have ‘permanent’ residents? Or are we going to swap after some (3?) months?
as there is a lot of work in the beginning I suppose we would initially hope for a lot of people staying there.
are there legal restriction for the amount of people staying there?
is it only a yunity related housing project? (meaning non-yunity people would not be allowed to stay there?) (all written by Arno)

differentiate between construction phase and “living” phase.

Either way there should be a “getting to know each other” time in which both the person who wants to live there and the group can decide if living together will work.