Right to ExistRight to Exist is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating 10,000 tiny homes on wheels in the city of Oakland. In addition, Right to Exist will provide those most in need with tent platforms, and solar power generators. Right to Exist works with the city of Oakland, churches, and private property owners to generate enough sanctioned space for people to park their tiny homes in those spaces. Right to Exist is dedicated to providing long term solutions to everyone in Oakland who is suffering from homelessness by generating enough tiny home/tent platform/solar power infrastructure to completely meet the needs of all 4,000 outdoor residents of Oakland, while also anticipating the needs of more people entering the ranks of the unhoused post-covid. Right to Exist will help bring Oakland into full compliance with its obligation to safeguard the human rights of all of its citizens. Right to Exist will help the city of Oakland lead the way for all cities to completely and permanently solve the problem of unhoused residents. |
Right to Exist Business Plan
Executive Summary
Organizational description: Right to Exist will finance and organize the construction and/or purchase of 10,000 tiny homes on wheels, as well as other key infrastructure, to provide sheltering overcapacity to meet and anticipate current and future need for total sheltering for all Oakland citizens.
Specific concept: Right to Exist provides the infrastructure necessary to make homelessness in Oakland obsolete. Right to Exist works in concert with other necessary entities, including the Oakland Humane Commons, and the Oakland Commons Trust. Right to Exist is a cooperatively owned and operated business that is operating in full compliance with common law, and is primarily dedicated to expanding the amount of real estate and other assets that are held entirely in a trust or conservancy for the perpetual use of human beings (living men, living women, and living children) within a commons.
Market Description: Right to Exist will draw financing and support from all sources public and private, and Right to Exist will engage in a number of different types of land use agreements from leasing, to ownership, to outright donation. Right to Exist will engage in land use agreements with the City of Oakland, County of Alameda, State of California, HUD, Oakland Unified School District, Peralta School District, as well as with local churches and private land owners.
Value Proposition: Right to Exist will provide harm reduction cost benefits to the City of Oakland through reduced reliance on prisons, police, human rights lawsuits, emergency room visits, opiate overdoses, depressed local business values, as well as reductions overall in theft, violence and homicide in the City. Everyone leaving the prison system and re-entering the Oakland community will be given first priority of their own tiny home. Right to Exist will also add value to the City of Oakland by enabling the un-sheltered to have the stability and security they need to develop their businesses and art, and pay the results of those enterprises forward to everyone in the City. Right to Exist also supports the other cultural value-adds that the commons brings to society, including improved access to cooperative community, and self-sustainability, and local self-governance.
Key Success Factors: Human awakening on the planet will accelerate the demand for complete and rapid solutions to the human rights crisis of homelessness. Oakland is geographically and historically positioned for cultural leadership on this and other social issues, and is the ideal birthing place for a cooperative business that will have branches in every city in the US, building a vast collection of land and assets for the commons trust, which is held in perpetuity for the needs of humanity.
Financial needs: $1 billion.
Vision Statement:
Background: There are at least 4,000 Oakland citizens, men, women, children and families, without shelter tonight - and there was a 46 percent rise in their ranks in the last year. All of the plans and projects ever brought forward by the city of Oakland have only attempted to fix a small percentage of the problem. No plan to house and shelter every citizen of Oakland humanely has ever been put forth. The East Bay, with its proud legacy of arts and music and literature, as well as the free speech movement, the hippies, the Black Panthers and Burning Man, has all of the cultural infrastructure needed to create not just a local answer to homelessness, but the seeds of a cultural movement, of the commons plus tiny home infrastructure, that will scale upwards (or horizontally) to the whole world.
A break with the old approaches -
Right to Exist is different from any previous approaches to the plight of unsheltered citizens, for a number of reasons. For one, our plan is designed to be 100 percent successful at sheltering all the citizens of Oakland. No one in the city of Oakland has ever put forth a plan that simply intended to achieve 100 percent success at humanely sheltering all of the city's citizens. All of their plans and achievements so far have never put more than a dent in a small percentage of the homeless problem - and no one has a track record of success at completely solving homelessness in a humane way.
Another factor that makes Right to Exist unique is that it does not take the approach which attempts to "transition" certain people back into conventional housing within the existing housing marketplace. Right to Exist is not trying to transition people back into a failed model of human life that is built on residential architecture that is designed to prevent people from generating cooperative community or self-sustainability, and is also designed to be a perpetual debt prison, or completely unaffordable.
Right to Exist is part of a new vision for the city of Oakland that is based on the idea of the commons, and on the development projects within the Oakland Humane Commons, and on the acquisition of lands, properties and assets within the city of Oakland through the Oakland Commons Trust, which will be permanently dedicated to the sheltering and cultural needs of Oakland's citizens. Right to Exist is offering not only a plan for the complete and humane sheltering of all citizens of Oakland, but it is also offering a new way of life to all of its citizens who are tired of the living designs offered to us by either the marketplace or the state.
Right to Exist is part of a larger plan for the city of Oakland, called Bright Oakland, a plan that fixes the physical infrastructure of Oakland, and then builds the infrastructure for a new arts and culture based economy for the city of Oakland, leveraging Oakland's greatest strengths, and developing the infrastructure necessary to make Oakland the world's greatest arts and cultural destination, as well as making Oakland into one big entertainment and ecological theme park.
Right to Exist is part of a bold new vision for the city of Oakland that sees the opportunity for a vast return on our social investment in each other. The cost for this project of one billion dollars is the same as what the city of Oakland is paying waste management corporation to do their miserable job of picking up the city's trash. But when Right to Exist is fully funded, the city will save hundreds of millions of dollars into the future by not having to pay for all of the social liabilities of homelessness, for there will no longer be the need to keep bleeding money into a problem which no longer exists. And the commons will be increasingly self-sustaining and less reliant or dependent on the city.
But the greatest benefits of this project are that we are unlocking the creative and productive potential of thousands of Oakland's citizens, which will be paid forward to the benefit of all of Oakland and the world.
Theo Cedar Jones
November 29, 2020
Wood st. Commons, West Oakland
Executive Summary
Organizational description: Right to Exist will finance and organize the construction and/or purchase of 10,000 tiny homes on wheels, as well as other key infrastructure, to provide sheltering overcapacity to meet and anticipate current and future need for total sheltering for all Oakland citizens.
Specific concept: Right to Exist provides the infrastructure necessary to make homelessness in Oakland obsolete. Right to Exist works in concert with other necessary entities, including the Oakland Humane Commons, and the Oakland Commons Trust. Right to Exist is a cooperatively owned and operated business that is operating in full compliance with common law, and is primarily dedicated to expanding the amount of real estate and other assets that are held entirely in a trust or conservancy for the perpetual use of human beings (living men, living women, and living children) within a commons.
Market Description: Right to Exist will draw financing and support from all sources public and private, and Right to Exist will engage in a number of different types of land use agreements from leasing, to ownership, to outright donation. Right to Exist will engage in land use agreements with the City of Oakland, County of Alameda, State of California, HUD, Oakland Unified School District, Peralta School District, as well as with local churches and private land owners.
Value Proposition: Right to Exist will provide harm reduction cost benefits to the City of Oakland through reduced reliance on prisons, police, human rights lawsuits, emergency room visits, opiate overdoses, depressed local business values, as well as reductions overall in theft, violence and homicide in the City. Everyone leaving the prison system and re-entering the Oakland community will be given first priority of their own tiny home. Right to Exist will also add value to the City of Oakland by enabling the un-sheltered to have the stability and security they need to develop their businesses and art, and pay the results of those enterprises forward to everyone in the City. Right to Exist also supports the other cultural value-adds that the commons brings to society, including improved access to cooperative community, and self-sustainability, and local self-governance.
Key Success Factors: Human awakening on the planet will accelerate the demand for complete and rapid solutions to the human rights crisis of homelessness. Oakland is geographically and historically positioned for cultural leadership on this and other social issues, and is the ideal birthing place for a cooperative business that will have branches in every city in the US, building a vast collection of land and assets for the commons trust, which is held in perpetuity for the needs of humanity.
Financial needs: $1 billion.
Vision Statement:
Background: There are at least 4,000 Oakland citizens, men, women, children and families, without shelter tonight - and there was a 46 percent rise in their ranks in the last year. All of the plans and projects ever brought forward by the city of Oakland have only attempted to fix a small percentage of the problem. No plan to house and shelter every citizen of Oakland humanely has ever been put forth. The East Bay, with its proud legacy of arts and music and literature, as well as the free speech movement, the hippies, the Black Panthers and Burning Man, has all of the cultural infrastructure needed to create not just a local answer to homelessness, but the seeds of a cultural movement, of the commons plus tiny home infrastructure, that will scale upwards (or horizontally) to the whole world.
A break with the old approaches -
Right to Exist is different from any previous approaches to the plight of unsheltered citizens, for a number of reasons. For one, our plan is designed to be 100 percent successful at sheltering all the citizens of Oakland. No one in the city of Oakland has ever put forth a plan that simply intended to achieve 100 percent success at humanely sheltering all of the city's citizens. All of their plans and achievements so far have never put more than a dent in a small percentage of the homeless problem - and no one has a track record of success at completely solving homelessness in a humane way.
Another factor that makes Right to Exist unique is that it does not take the approach which attempts to "transition" certain people back into conventional housing within the existing housing marketplace. Right to Exist is not trying to transition people back into a failed model of human life that is built on residential architecture that is designed to prevent people from generating cooperative community or self-sustainability, and is also designed to be a perpetual debt prison, or completely unaffordable.
Right to Exist is part of a new vision for the city of Oakland that is based on the idea of the commons, and on the development projects within the Oakland Humane Commons, and on the acquisition of lands, properties and assets within the city of Oakland through the Oakland Commons Trust, which will be permanently dedicated to the sheltering and cultural needs of Oakland's citizens. Right to Exist is offering not only a plan for the complete and humane sheltering of all citizens of Oakland, but it is also offering a new way of life to all of its citizens who are tired of the living designs offered to us by either the marketplace or the state.
Right to Exist is part of a larger plan for the city of Oakland, called Bright Oakland, a plan that fixes the physical infrastructure of Oakland, and then builds the infrastructure for a new arts and culture based economy for the city of Oakland, leveraging Oakland's greatest strengths, and developing the infrastructure necessary to make Oakland the world's greatest arts and cultural destination, as well as making Oakland into one big entertainment and ecological theme park.
Right to Exist is part of a bold new vision for the city of Oakland that sees the opportunity for a vast return on our social investment in each other. The cost for this project of one billion dollars is the same as what the city of Oakland is paying waste management corporation to do their miserable job of picking up the city's trash. But when Right to Exist is fully funded, the city will save hundreds of millions of dollars into the future by not having to pay for all of the social liabilities of homelessness, for there will no longer be the need to keep bleeding money into a problem which no longer exists. And the commons will be increasingly self-sustaining and less reliant or dependent on the city.
But the greatest benefits of this project are that we are unlocking the creative and productive potential of thousands of Oakland's citizens, which will be paid forward to the benefit of all of Oakland and the world.
Theo Cedar Jones
November 29, 2020
Wood st. Commons, West Oakland