Tiny Home Baltimore Proposal

1. You don’t have to spend a lot of money building it

If you have the time and ability to design and build the house yourself, you can only spend your money on materials. There are tiny home designers out there who will create and build it for you, but that obviously costs more as you’re paying for material and manpower and that company’s overhead.

• That said, tiny homes are just a fraction of the price of traditional homes, and you can have everything designed specifically for you. Prices for tiny homes can range from less than $19,000 to around $50,000 depending on its size and the kind of finishes that you want.

• The low price also means that you can potentially pay cash for it if you’ve spent enough time saving up. If you can’t pay cash, the loan payments will be much smaller than a traditional mortgage. No more $2,000 house notes for you!

2. YOU CAN BE EXTREMELY ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY

• As mentioned in the first point, you can also set up your home to live off the grid. Using solar or wind resources to give your house power, using a rainwater catch and filtration system, and installing a composting toilet are all steps to enabling your tiny house to be functional anywhere in the world.

• Because your house is going to be so small, you can make a lot of it out of recycled, re-purposed, and salvaged materials. In addition to making your house look cool and unique, it also saves that same amount of new materials from being made.

3. You can be extremely energy efficient

• Whether you use solar power or hook your house up to a power line, the energy needs of such a tiny space are much smaller than the energy needs of a traditional home. LED lights will work extremely well here. Smaller appliances work more efficiently and a smaller space uses less power to heat and cool the air.

• If you need to connect to a power source, you’ll still have to pay your electric bill, but it can be a quarter or less of your traditional house’s bill. On top of everything you’re saving on your mortgage, think about all the trips you can take with that money you’ll be saving.

4. THINK BIG BY GOING SMALL

All actions that a people take are motivated by an ideology, whether they are conscious of it or not. Ideology is that which guides you; ; it shapes your beliefs, morals and principles. Any progressive motion should be calculated and deliberate; this is where a blueprint or map comes in. Ideology is that blueprint!

• What’s your Ideology? KWANZAA!Kwanzaa is a Swahili word that means “first” and signifies the first fruits of the harvest. From December 26 to January 1, many people of African descent in America-celebrate Kwanzaa. It is also not a religion, but a BLACK VALUE System that if USED properly can bring some purpose back to our Communities.

• In Africa, there are many customs that are common among the various ethnic groups found on the continent. One of these is the celebration of the harvest. At this time of the year, people of the community/village come together to celebrate and give thanks for their good fortune. Working towards a successful harvest is a communal effort, as is the celebration.

• Here in America in 1966, Maulana Ron Karenga and the U.S. Organization adopted the basic principles of the harvest celebrations in Africa to create the observance of Kwanzaa. Karenga recognized that on the whole, African Americans do not live in an agricultural setting. Nonetheless, he sought to emphasize that the basic principles found in producing the harvest are vital to building and maintaining strong and wholesome communities.

• In this way, Kwanzaa was developed. Kwanzaa is that time when we reflect on our use of the basic principles, share and enjoy the fruits of our labor, and recommit ourselves to the collective achievement of a better life for our family, our community, and our PEOPLE.

5. Eradicate vacant homes

• Baltimore City has over 16,000 Vacant Homes and 14,000 Vacant Lots, which is over 50 million sqft of Under-utilized Land. Vacant homes are a constant reminder of a failed system that has allowed shady Landlord practices in Baltimore to operate in the past. Which has stiffled the growth of the City and SPEARHEADED THE MASS EXODUS OF BALTIMORE IN THE 90’S. Seventy-Five percent of the Vacant Homes are “privately owned “.

• Push City Council to bring about legislation to grandfather heavy fines and penalties for this slummage and eradicate all VACANT homes By 2022. VACANT homes pose a grave threat to any Community. VACANT homes are unstable and very dangerous. This Year wind storm has proven that.

• City housing officials maintain a list of nearly 17,000 vacant buildings — a figure that some groups say woefully undercounts the actual number — and the structures are divided among three categories. About 530 are examined three times a month. Another 3,300 are inspected every 30 days and the rest are inspected every four months. The city tore down about 1,300 in a recent five-year period.

• In the wake of the recent building collapses, residents and community activists questioned whether the city is doing enough. VACANT homes have killed one too many within our community. No other Community in the State has to worry about a Vacant crashing down on them as they walk within their community.

• VACANT homes and CRIME go hand and hand, like grit and grime. Drug dealing, Drug use, and other dangerous criminal activity are allowed to thrive due to the overwhelming amount of VACANT homes. We tear down the VACANT homes and we will actually start to reign in our epidemic MURDER rate.

• Call to Action to All able mind, body, and spiritual Citizens of Baltimore. Offer the demolition of VACANT homes as A Scale JOB which can operate in a phase by phase strategy. Which coincides with the Baltimore City School system, mainly the Vocational Schools as A PIPELINE TO GROWING A BROADER MODERN EDUCATED WORKFORCE.

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6. Upgrade the school system

New Millennium vocational training education to Renewable Energy Technology such as Mervo, Carver, Poly, Magna Baltimore Tech Edmondson High School.

1. Solar Panel Technology

2. Water Mane And Pipe training

3. MACHINE OPERATIONS

4. URBAN FARMING

5. Building Inspection

Construction equipment operators Occupation

Median pay (annual): 43,810 USD (2015)

Median pay (hourly): 21.06 USD (2015)

Projected 10-year growth: 10% (2014)

7. Solar, hydroponics, and Stirling Engine

Turn Old Schools or Government Buildings that are no longer in use into Hydroponics Farm system And Solar Panel Plants. A Stirling engine is a heat engine that operates by cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas (the working fluid) at different temperatures, such that there is a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical work. Because the Stirling engine is compatible with alternative and renewable energy sources it could become increasingly significant as the price of conventional fuel rises, and also in light of concerns such as depletion of oil supplies and climate change. Now with the new Administration in the Federal government, and possible trade wars looming. Tariffs will raise greenhouse gases sources of energy (fuel, coal i.e.) which will surely raise prices at the pump. It’s best to invest in a clean domestic source of energy before the tide comes.

Producing Technology Of Tomorrow. Solar Panel Technology is Not a new phenomenon at all SINCE the Sun has pretty much BEEN HERE from the start. NOW THAT MAN has opened his eyes and started seeing the Sun as the greatest energy source in OUR Universe. We WORK with private and government agencies who are in the business of production and regulations. Solar Panels will allow for Citizens who every year struggle with their gas and electricity. The Government spends millions on energy subsidies which ONLY puts a band-aid on the problem and not really addressing the issues. This will free up Government Funds to be used in other areas of need throughout Baltimore. The Solar Panels become an immediate producer of energy as soon as it is connected to the grid.

(Lean More About the Maryland Clean Energy Initiative Here)

• Total Days With Sun is a sum of the Sunny plus Partly Sunny days. The rest of the days are mainly overcast, with at least 80% cloud cover. All the numbers are averages, made from years of weather watching. Total Days With Sun is a sum of the Sunny plus Partly Sunny days. The rest of the days are mainly overcast, with at least 80% cloud cover. All the numbers are averages, made from years of weather watching.

• Days with clear skies in Baltimore, Maryland SunnyPartly SunnyTotal Days With Sun: January8+8=16/February8+7=15/March8+9=17/ April8+9=17/May8+10=18/June8+11=19/ April8+9=17/May8+10=18/June8+11=19/ July9+12=21/August9+11=20/September11+9=20/ October12+8=20/November8+8=16/ December8+7=15/Annual105+108=213 out of 365.

• The Total Hours figures are the average number of sunny hours that Baltimore has each month or in a year, taken from data collected for 1961 to 1990

• Solar Farming allows COMMUNITY COOPERATIVES, One dictionary defines a cooperative as “a jointly owned enterprise engaging in the production or distribution of goods or the supplying of services, operated by its members for their mutual benefit, typically organized by consumers or farmers”. Cooperative businesses are typically more economically resilient than many other forms of enterprise, with twice the number of co-operatives (80%) surviving their first five years compared with other business ownership models (41%). Cooperatives frequently have social goals which they aim to accomplish by investing a proportion of trading profits back into their communities, through S.R.E.C.

• SOLAR RENEWABLE ENERGY CERTIFICATE is, or Solar Renewable Energy Credits are a form of Renewable Energy Certificate or “Green tag” existing in the United States of America. SRECs exist in states that have Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) legislation with specific requirements for solar energy, usually referred to as a “solar carve-out”.[1] The additional income received from selling SRECs increases the economic value of a solar investment and assists with the financing of solar technology. In conjunction with state and federal incentives, solar system owners can recover their investment in solar by selling their SRECs through spot market sales or long-term sales, both producing economic stability.

What is Hydroponics?

• Hydroponics, by definition, is a method of growing plants in a water-based, nutrient-rich solution. Hydroponics does not use soil, instead, the root system is supported using an inert medium such as perlite, rockwool, clay pellets, peat moss, or vermiculite. The basic premise behind hydroponics is to allow the plant’s roots to come in direct contact with the nutrient solution, while also having access to oxygen, which is essential for proper growth.

• We Must Use these massive Unoccupied Structures as tools to rebuild a thriving New Millennium Community that’s able to sustain itself. Most of these buildings can be set up with Hydroponics Systems easily. This will create ANOTHER WORKFORCE within the City that will actually bring much-needed revenue to Baltimore. Baltimore City can become a major crop producer in 10 years with HYDROPONICS FARMING, inside Under-utilized Structures.

• Plenty of Bricks to throw! With all of the VACANT homes, there is an enormous supply of Bricks, in which the vast majority of them are still in good enough shape to be recycled and reused. This becomes ANOTHER source of revenue for the New URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OF BALTIMORE CITY and JOB CREATOR.

• Learn about how Connecticut company had the idea of turning old factories into indoor farms: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turning-old-factories-into-high-tech-lettuce-farms#/

8. Housing, A CIVIL Rights issue?

For far too long African Americans within the United States, have always collectively played the role as a consumer. We went from being in-slaved physically, to Captive-Capitalistic Slaves mentally and economically. Always playing the role as the Consumer has left us at a disadvantage socially. Economic  growth leads to social stability. In 1865 Congressman Thaddeus Stevens framed Civil Rights as an economic issue. Saying that  “BLACK People could only be slaves or free, without at least 40 acres of land, a mule, and 100 dollars for an economic base, or Blacks will forever be SLAVES “. This same Civil Rights issue will arise a hundred years later as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his Poor People Campaign sought to address the problem again. We still have not solved it today

• The year before his assassination Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR said “I think it is necessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights…[W]hen we see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic and political power, then we see that for the last twelve years we have been in a reform movement…That after Selma and the Voting Rights Bill, we moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution…In short, we have moved intoan era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society.” Now the redistribution of economic and political power. We know the steps to economic power, it helps you grow politically. The only thing THAT the Dr. King was talking about redistributing, is LAND.

• Some may ask, How could the economic growth that Dr. King championed for and a 100 years before him, Thaddeus Stevens spoke of the importance of it FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY? OUR GREATEST WEAKNESS IS OUR COMMUNITIES HAVE NO RESOURCES. Meaning, we control NO vital resources. Land is the KEY to our long-term economic growth and a true sense of community and social cohesiveness. True POWER is in the Land! Not money, because you can always make money off the Land. WE MUST BECOME PRODUCERS IF WE TRULY WANT TO PROSPER, THIS IS A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE THEN AND NOW.

9. It’s not about the last 40, but the next 50!

• We know what happened then, but our mission from here on out is to make a NEW. NEVER AGAIN WILL OUR PAST BE REVISITED AS A REALITY! So we work diligently and stay vigilant as we innovate and create a NEW URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OF BALTIMORE CITY. We start by creating BETTER coalition partners among the SMALL BLACK BUSINESS COMMUNITY. So they can create SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS, who will LOBBY for their community in which many operate in impoverish and Under-utilized neighborhoods. Most BLACK BUSINESSES DO NOT SURVIVE, due to the HIGH rent they have to pay in old ran down structures, which drains resources.

• Another reason is due to the demographics. (Math 1 +1 = 2) well, let’s put the equation together. Baltimore City is ABOUT 580,000 in population 63% BLACK. Half of that population live in a household or earn 30,000 dollars a year or less. Which are the WORKING Poor and the Poverty line. So 240,000 of the Population are 97.8 percent the customers of BLACK BUSINESSES. IF YOU HAVE POOR BLACK COMMUNITY THAT IS BARELY SURVIVING, HOW DO WE THINK A BLACK BUSINESS WILL FARE IN THEM SAME COMMUNITIES?

• Baltimore City has one of the highest unemployment rates in the COUNTRY at 6.8 to 7.0 percent of the Population. Now 7% of 240,000 is 16,800 which leaves us with 223,200, also factor in that half of the previous number are children under the age of 15. Now the unemployment figures to be higher in Black Communities at 15%. It nearly doubles among the Youth group 16-25 at a 28%, even with the Large Amazon Corporation that is now operating today. We target THAT age group and really give them BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE and True Wealth Building Skillset, and THEY WILL FLOURISH.

Incomes:

Baltimore is located in the richest state in the country, Maryland, which makes comparing the incomes of blacks in Baltimore to the median income of the state overall particularly stark, with an almost $40,000 a year a difference in earnings.

African Americans are the only U.S. racial group earning less than in 2000 according to a LA Times article: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-african-american-income-20170915-story.html

10. Conclusion

Tubman-Carter Land

This is my Proposal to change the dilapidated and dire conditions in The Great City Of Baltimore, Maryland! We have an overwhelming opportunity to change the landscape of Baltimore City! TO still remain that Block By Block Community style in the City, which makes Charm City so unique. This Town is truly the Jewel of The Bay and it is time for this mission to be spearheaded by local business owners from Baltimore. I WANT TO bring (Tiny Homes) to Baltimore! The Tiny Homes are very modern, sleek, and portable. The Tiny Homes can come already assembled,(appliances)it will be ready for hook up to utilities as soon as it is loaded off of trailers and placed in the position it will occupy, OR be assembled on site.

• Why will Tiny Homes Baltimore work? Well, they will work because this allows for the average citizen in Baltimore City to have Home Ownership in actually owning THEIR Own HOME! Fifty percent of our citizenry here in Baltimore are either the working poor or living near and below the poverty line! Most of this is due to the lack of true educational institutions that promote urban- economics and development! The schools in our community teach us how to be good employees and not owner’s. This will allow for the lower class(SPEAKING strictly economics 30,000 or less working poor)within our community for them to also save money and many can use that extra cash to further their education to obtain the New Age Jobs For this Millennium! See I want to truly build something for the People of Baltimore City that really benefits them and not the elite and politicians.

• This Tiny Style Home Baltimore will transform Baltimore City into the New Millennium development! Also due to the large amounts of Under-Utilized Land A THB Shop Can Be CREATED  Here and Operated in the Schools or City property that is no longer being used and basically becoming Community Eye Soars! This allows THB TO bring the much-needed revenue to the City along with 500 to 1000 new jobs created within the first Year of operation. Most of the jobs will be geared towards the youth 16-21 years of age.The reason being, this will empower them to be self-reliant and self-dependent as they help build this new community. Highlighted by getting the City Vocational Schools as a Training program, injunction with other community partners.

• TINY HOME BALTIMORE I propose it to be coined TUBMAN-CARTER LAND after Harriet TUBMAN and Walter P. CARTER. Two fighters for justice, freedom, and the right to live your best life! The THB can be used and transformed into other spaces as well, such as schools, shops, OR community center. The conditions THAT face us are because of a failure in the system and the lack of being innovative and creative! Has this idea worked in other places? Yes it has, and still, today in places like “Detroit under Rev. Faith Fowler.

• Cass Community Social Services is in the process of building 25 different Tiny Homes (250-400sf) on the north end of its campus between the Lodge service drive and Woodrow Wilson. Each home will be on its own lot (roughly 30 x 100 feet) and every one will be on a foundation. Most will have a front porch or rear deck to increase the living space. The residents will have a combination of experiences (formerly homeless people, senior citizens, college students and a few Cass staff members) but all will qualify as low-income. At first, the residents will rent the homes. Anyone who remains for seven years will be given the opportunity to own the home and property. Learn more about the Detroit Tiny Home Community Here.

• The houses are being built by both professional tradespeople (under the supervision of a general contractor) and volunteer teams who will manage the finishing jobs – tiling, drywalling, painting, gardening, building decks and erecting fences.” The example is there, it is now time for BALTIMORE to take a Leap of Faith and believe it can build a brighter future.

Drawn-Up & Proposed By:

DeAndre L Daniels SR

Wendy M. Carpenter

FLOURISHING LIVES INVESTMENT GROUP & ASSOCIATE’S

3717 BOSTON STREET SUITE 349

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21224

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