The Sustainable Village

12/10/2025

I am concerned about people who have become homeless, or are at risk of becoming homeless, and those who are chronically poor, or living in poverty.

I would like to remedy this crisis by creating low-cost, permanent tiny home and cottage villages for all who wish, especially the most in need.

These villages would also include gardens, workshops, a community kitchen, and more. My intent is to increase cultural, environmental, and economic sustainability at a very low cost.

Once established, this infrastructure can also be used to help villagers run small businesses, thereby helping people to earn money.

As stated in the Mendocino County, CA, Continuum of Care, Strategic Plan and most all others, more housing is needed. And that existing programs have never met even 20% of participants' housing needs.

Over 80% of people in need have been slipping through the cracks for decades. We can solve this, not just with housing, but also with housing that fosters mental, physical, and economic well-being at a significantly lower cost than prevailing approaches.

This has been my field of exploration my entire life, as it was my mom's before me; she was a social worker for the County of Los Angeles. As a result, I have a solid understanding of the need and prevailing programs.

As broker/owner of North Country Real Estate in Humboldt County CA for over 20 years, a non-profit board member, and a small-time developer, permit processor, and more, I have a solid understanding of both the changing obstacles and opportunities.

If you share my concern, may we schedule a time to introduce ourselves, explain a bit more about what we have in mind, and how we are proceeding? Perhaps we will find good ways of collaborating to move this quest forward promptly.
Sincerely,
Jayme Delson
[email protected]

12/20/2023

The prevailing system is working more and more poorly for most people and the environment. I do not think the government or the corporations are about to fix this for us.
If you agree, do you have ideas about how we, the citizens, may begin, and scale up, a better socioeconomic system for all who so wish, or need, and the environment?
I propose that there are good and within reach answers, even if there are no easy answers.
Or perhaps you have given some consideration as to why we are not already living in a world where we all can live well, and where we take care of the environment?

10/26/2022

Hi My friends and acquaintances,
The Sustainable Village is looking for your concept endorsement, we have reached out to the Southern Humboldt Community Park for a pilot project location, and are open to other locations as well. We have created a petition on Change.org, please check it out, and if you like our quest, please sign our petition!
Cheers,
Jayme

Support The Sustainable Village, because everybody needs a home and meaningful work

02/21/2022

LA Times
Why the federal poverty line doesn’t begin to tell the story of poverty in the U.S.

Half of U.S. families struggle to make ends meet, yet their incomes aren’t low enough to meet the official federal poverty threshold.

02/21/2022

MIT Technology Review, How Technology Is Destroying Jobs

Automation is reducing the need for people in many jobs. Are we facing a future of stagnant income and worsening inequality?

02/21/2022

Over the last 45 years the economy has undergone a technologically based transition, leading to most employment, and self-employment, no longer paying anywhere near a living wage.

Here is a references for what I am talking about:

Wow, from the point of view of confirming that technology is rendering most humans obsolete!

"It's Already Too Late, Things Are Getting Serious" | Elon Musk (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y5RGit16uE

• As for regulation preventing the impact on the employed, we have not actually seen anything along these lines.

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11/22/2020

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rqbPid4YPZgjbaTqgFxSqFdbwl4zeyuf/view?usp=sharing

11/16/2020

https://ratical.org/corporations/PMSHAGAintro.html

This book is about the flowering of the largest democratic mass movement in American history. It is also necessarily a book about democracy itself. Finally it is about why Americans have far less democracy than they like to think and what would have to happen to alter that situation.

11/16/2020

https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/consflow

There are many different ways of reaching consensus. This model outlines the common stages and will work well with up to 20 about people.

01/14/2020

The Sustainable Village
Key Points

The Sustainable Village (TSV) May be quickly scaled up to end homelessness.

TSV is also for people on the economic edge, as well as for people who wish to encourage the success of the project.

About 1/10th the cost of other low cost option, and financially self sustaining after 5 +/- years.

TSV is a permanent living and livelihood solution, however it is also available for people who need a place only temporally as well.

To also include an area for travelers who fit our target population.

Designed to be an uplifting environment first, and a productive one second.

TSV will be a place to recover from most forms of trauma. Both physical and mental wellness are key.

TSV makes it possible for participants to learn, teach and use low cost, environmentally sustainable technology, to build cottages and tiny homes, grow food, generate electricity, fix cars, bikes, broken tools and torn clothing etc.

To encourage the art of ceramics, woodworking, food preservation, animal husbandry, the fiber arts, and many others which can produce very low cost basic necessities, for oneself, for ones neighbor, for exchange and for sale.

Does not require participants to compete with other people, for what low cost housing or employment there is.

Provides opportunities for participants to excel in their chosen endeavors.

Assists people to establish small businesses.

Assist people to use their own handiness to become more self reliant, as well as how to work well with others.

Reduces crime and blight.

Our cost lowering and income generating approach, makes it possible to make ends meet, with much less income, and even save for retirement.

Reduces tax payer costs.

Improves the environment.

Reduces illness and the spread of illness.

Can be established on a shoe string given the current emergency.

May be rapidly scaled up to meet existing and future need.

When issue affect others, decisions shall be made collaboratively, when difficulties arise, we have a formal dispute resolution process.

A place where the wider housed community may come, to work in the garden in exchange for vegetables or receive house painting assistance in exchange for child care etc., etc.

We seek a collaborative relationship with individuals, schools, nonprofits, businesses, trade associations, clubs, religious organizations, media, and government.

TSV can be established in temporary locations, that are in time moved to permanent location, or they can begin in a permanent location as the situation presents.

TSV will have a village host at all times, until this is no longer needed.

At TSV our intention is to track our progress, measure our results, and improve accordingly.
Cheers,
Jayme Delson

02/22/2019

Now is a good time to be crafting and implementing scale-able, pilot projects, that may lead to widespread, ways of living with declining dependence on the prevailing socioeconomic system, in time to render it obsolete, before its too late.

The prevailing system is rapidly reducing the number of viable participants, with lay off after lay off, and cost of living is out pacing most incomes, more and more every day. As a result, low cost, collaborative, regenerative and sustainable systems for all is perhaps the remaining safety-net for most people and the environment.

The likelihood of this unfolding, depends on teams of people work together, to foster it along the way! Cheers, Jayme