All right, so that said, here are some ideas just to stimulate thought. The number one thing that I hear about improving urban areas is that you have to take care of security first. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what you build because nobody wants to live there, nobody wants a business there, nobody wants to shop there, nobody wants to raise children there. So security has got to be your absolute base requirement. Now you also don't want a police state. So how do you get to a gentle security where nobody is getting beaten up, there's nothing abusive going on, you haven't given up too much privacy, but you still got a safe space?

I'll give you some ideas. Again, not the greatest ideas in the world necessarily, but they'll get you thinking. Imagine if you will that you put a ring of homes around the perimeter, and the houses act as part of the, let's say, gated community. Normally you see a gated community for a wealthy neighborhood, but wealthy neighborhoods don't have that much crime. It'd be a lot more useful to put a little gate around an area that's in an inner city. Now of course you'd have actual gates so that emergency exits and services can come through, but you'd have some security at the gates.

Now imagine if you will that there's external cameras on both sides of the homes on all of the public areas. Plus the homeowner has an option that comes with the house. This is important. The video security comes with the house. You don't have an option of not getting it. It's just a cheap camera that goes to the internet. You can look at it on your phone. Now I just saw a commercial for Ring.com. I'm not doing a commercial for them. I have no interest in their company. But they just showed an upgrade that allows you to alert your neighbors on your phone if something fishy is you see in your camera. So if you see somebody suspicious at your front door, you've got an option to alert the neighbors, and they get ping-ping-ping, and then everybody can look through their own cameras, can look out the window, can alert the police, whatever they need to do. That would be amazing. I mean, I think that would really make a difference.

Here's another idea. Again, just ideas. Imagine if you said we're going to build this community, and then we're going to reserve some of the units that have a good view of things for people who are either current police workers or ex-police people who are trained to identify problems and to know what to do if they come up. Now if this police officer moves, it's still a designated unit. It might be a first responder or police, but somebody who's trained. So you make sure that you've got a few of them in key areas because if their app goes off, they know what to do.

All right, you want somebody who's got a legal right to own a weapon and knows when to use it and when not in your community. Very helpful. I've got a neighbor who was in the police force down the road, and I gotta tell you I felt a lot safer knowing him personally and knowing that he was in the neighborhood. Makes a big difference.

Then next thing you want to do if you've got your security right is you want to get your transportation right. You could have a lot of stuff here that doesn't require you to leave home. So if you have an app-based community, things you need you can order on your apps. If you need an Uber, you can order it on your app. Maybe you don't even have private cars. One of the experiments might be let's build a community where nobody has a car, but you still need to get places. So let's say there's a bus that takes you to mass transit on a regular basis, and let's say that you can see where the bus is on your app so you don't even have to go outside until the bus is approaching. But better yet, let's say the bus driver has the app too, and the bus driver can see all the people who are converging on the bus. So you pull up in your bus, people get on. Normally you wouldn't know if there's somebody around the corner who's almost there and you pull off. But if you're looking at your app, you're like, oh there's Bob. Bob's right around the corner. I'll wait for 10 more seconds. Suddenly just adding an app to a shuttle to mass transit makes it a whole friendlier situation, much the way Uber did.

You could add a shared garage possibly, so that maybe some people had private cars or maybe there were your own private rental Uber-type situation just for the neighbors. You can see if that worked. That would be another experiment. And maybe there were some shared tools as well, so you don't need a garage if you can go borrow a tool. Everybody knows who has it. You borrow it on your app. You make sure that it's there before you go borrow it. Oh yeah, I need one of those. Okay. So you could have a shared tool thing. People do that already. I don't know if it works well or not.

Then imagine again, for those just joining, these are not the best ideas in the world. I'm just trying to stimulate thought. So imagine if each of these residents had built into it a storefront or office on the street side with a separate entrance and a separate bathroom. If you are living here and you owned both the residence and the storefront, and when I say storefront I don't mean a big box, I'm talking about one room the size of a small one-person office with the bathroom for guests and for yourself. And if you had a business to go into there, well you've already got your job. So your job and your home become the same place. And if we've done a good job in construction and brought the cost way down and the cost of the land was almost free, well you could run a little shop here.

Now suppose you don't want to run the shop. You don't have a home business. You don't want anything to do with the business, but you like living here. You could rent it out. So if you could rent the front of the shop to somebody from the outside, they can't get in your house. They're just running their little business there. Suddenly you're a landlord. So you've gone from a person who can't afford a house to a person who's a landlord in one move. You already have a job. Now that wouldn't be enough necessarily to pay for your home. You might need to do more. But if you were a person who had a good job outside of the community, you could take your bus there. Somebody's working in your home. You've got two incomes. Something.

All right, now I'm imagining, and I'm also imagining some kind of a way that if people have pets they don't need to be home all day to walk them. Maybe there's a little area that your dog has a dog door and they can do their business in a place that isn't too bad for other people to look at, easy to clean up. Artificial lawn is the best. I'll show you mine in a little bit.

Now there are a number of ideas that we're receiving on BlightAuthority.com, which is where there's a forum where you can suggest things that you could do in places like this. And we're hoping that we can stimulate some more ideas. But people said things like, well just go through the list. Suppose you had a central food source just for the residents, and it could be simply like a Togo's. It could be just sandwiches and salads. Keep it simple. That doesn't mean you can't just buy your own food anywhere you want. You can still do anything you want. But if your kid gets home before you do and they need a sandwich, wouldn't it be great if your twelve-year-old could look at the app and if approved by the parent they can say yeah it's after school and I want a ham sandwich, and they just hit it. Maybe the ham sandwich is dropped in a drop box at your house.

Imagine building these homes so that they're optimized for drones. Maybe there's a place on the roof for a drone to land. Maybe there's a hot box for a hot meal if somebody's dropping off that once it's dropping off nobody can get into it. Maybe there's a cold box for your milk. So those are some ideas. So you might have a simple place. Now the beauty is also a number of these things I'm going to talk about would provide first jobs, in some cases a second real job, but at least teenager or first jobs for a lot of people without leaving the community. So if you've got an app to find a babysitter or an app to find a pet walker and an app to find somebody who does various services, you could have a lot of jobs that exist just within here.

Now I'm guessing that the size of this might be more like a hundred homes, but there's probably some optimal size, a size where you could support a school of some sort, a gym, some shared business services and such. You wouldn't want it so big that nobody knows their neighbors, and you don't want it so small that you don't get the advantages of scale.

Let me tell you why scale is important. Depending where you put this, you might have a lot of expenses for heating or cooling. If you start with blank land, which is what the blight has been torn down to, you can trench it more easily for lots of houses and then you can put in geothermal heating. Now geothermal takes advantage of the fact that the earth is about a constant 56 degrees once you go down, I think 10 feet, whatever it is. So you run pipes under the ground and those pipes, I think with water in them, picks up the temperature of the earth and then brings that up above. So if you're trying to heat your house from what it would be, which is zero in the winter, to what you want it to be, that's maybe 68. The first 56 degrees are free because you're just using the heat from the earth. And likewise if you're trying to cool it from 100 down to 75, the 56 degrees that you're taking from the earth is going to help a lot. But it's far more economical if you do it in the first place. It's not as economical if you're doing it for one house. So you want it big enough to get the economies and not too big that you have other problems.

I say school, but I don't think we have the right ideas about school. I don't love the idea of school the way it exists. So I'm not necessarily thinking of a public school. Maybe it's a place you go to do homework and maybe that's all. Maybe it's a place that's for homeschooling. Maybe it's an experiment in video schooling. Maybe there's a remote school. So there's a lot of creativity that could be tried out here for training. But at the very least you want some place that's quiet that people, kids, can go to study and have some help, maybe with a tutor. You want some training facilities.

Imagine that you start this community by training people to build it. If you've seen a video, it's on the Blight Authority right now, of these insulated concrete forms, ICFs. Insulated concrete forms. There's big blocks that one human can pick up without too much trouble, and they fit together like Legos. And you can see videos of people building an entire house in one day once you have the foundation. So once you have the foundation it's just boop, boop, boop. So imagine some different ways that people could build their homes in a modular fashion. Suppose instead of painting the interior of the house you could take modular little blocks and just stick them onto the wall. And if you want to change them out you just take out the blocks, you reuse them, resell them to somebody else who likes that color, put up some new blocks. Make it interesting. Your house doesn't have to be one color. It could be different blocks, whatever you want. So imagine all those possibilities.

Somebody suggested shared business services for all of the home businesses in the area or anybody who wants to start a business anywhere. That's a great idea, especially if there are mentors that can help you find funding. It turns out there's tons of government funding if you know how to get it, but it's not easy. You'd have to know how to get it and you'd have to know which of the many government programs fits you. You have to know how to fill out the forms. It's hard. So suppose this community comes with its own business experts. They could be on site. It could be an association of people just sharing ideas. We're in business. You could have external people. You can have apps that connect you to experts.

Some people suggested food farms and indoor farms basically. So it might be, depending on the climate, indoor outdoor. Indoor farming is probably not as economical as it needs to be for an inner city situation, but it's getting close. And there may be some companies, I listed a few at BlightAuthority.com in the forums, some that look like they're getting close. So you can see those names in there. I've invested in one of them. They have some experimental wall farms, but they don't grow every kind of vegetable, so you'd probably need some mills.

Now one of the big issues in the inner city is something called food equality. If you haven't heard that term, it refers to the fact that if you're eating the wrong kind of food your energy is low, you're literally not as smart, you might even have behavior problems or all kinds of problems, health problems of course, from eating the wrong kind of food. But if you had some kind of centralized food source, even though it's optional, you don't have to eat there, you would at the very least have something that the parents could say, look kids, you're eating here. Food equality is over. I mean we have food equality. You just have to eat the centralized stuff. Less variety, but you're mostly going to have an option for that. There are probably other ways to get there as well.

You want some kind of shared gym or exercise area and maybe a dog park. The reason I throw them in is that you want to also manage this area for natural connections. There's nothing cooler than a dog park where you take your dog to run around and it forces you to meet your neighbors because you always have something to talk about. It's like, hey is that your dog? I love that dog. How old is your dog? So I've been about dog parks and they're great for socializing. Same with the gym.

So you want a place that people can go. Maybe somebody suggested basketball courts that you could rent on your app. So maybe you just reserve it. I don't know if renting is right, but suppose you had an app where you could find nine other people to play basketball and then the nine of you could schedule a time and then you've got an hour. So that would optimize your court. People would not be monopolizing it and everybody would get something.

Imagine that you organized to make bulk purchases of the things that everybody uses. So it could be things like milk and paper products. Since you don't want to drive wherever you gotta drive to Costco and have a Costco membership, maybe the community is big enough that they can do some bulk purchases. Now that bulk purchasing might include wireless access. It might include cable. It might include insurance. You can imagine a lot of things that a hundred families could negotiate for and get better prices.

Imagine if you will, and I'll just take you through this thinking, I'm not saying this is the idea. Again these are just to stimulate thought. Imagine if you started with dirt and the very first thing you built right in the middle was a training facility to train people how to build, how to be builders specifically for this community. So you train them and then you have them build it. Now let's say the next thing you do is have Elon Musk's company called the Boring Company bore holes in the ground. Have them bore holes for the geothermal. That produces a lot of dirt that you gotta do something with. Elon Musk has said they've already figured out how to turn that dirt into bricks on site. So now you've got bricks, you've got geothermal, you've got a training facility that you're creating jobs, and they're building the homes so they feel some connection to it.

So the idea here is that your community should help you with your jobs, your social life, your livability, your transportation, your food. And if you haven't designed all that into your community, it's just homes. And plopping an existing style home into the middle of the inner city and not doing anything else with the community, your security or anything else, not making it affordable, it doesn't get anywhere. You've got to be able to make sure that they can sustain themselves in every possible way from health to security to jobs to transportation.

All right, I'm gonna take you on a little tour of my house. Oh, and here's another thing. If you get the right kind of mix of people so that the kids have other kids to play with, the adults have people who have something in common, you improve the social life immensely just by having people your same age in your same situation.