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Revision as of 18:42, 3 January 2012
In Leipzig whole houses are up for grabs for relatively little money.
The idea is to buy into one or more of the buildings and open them up for sharing.
Express Your interest here and here
Housing locations
- Put findings on this shared Google map
Aim
The approach is to enable friends to buy an apartment with one thousand five hundred euros.( 1500€ )
The cost for the purchase of an apartment is 6000 euros. We can get 3/4 in credit. ( details below )
The first step for me is to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig with the money of an acquaintance who is willing to invest.
With this initial building - which we do not own, but can use for free -, I want to invite friends to come and live there without paying rent, enabling them to save for one year, till they reach the 1500 euros needed to purchase their own apartment.
Ultimately the aim is larger : it is to support a local economy, our own food production, our own small manufacturing, consulting, etc - in the form of cooperatives, while supporting alternative complementary currencies, through an approach which increases local autonomy and reduces the payment of capitalist rent / speculation on the long term.
People interested
Isis, Alex, Dante, Meinhard, Rob, Florence, Topi, Johanna, tubaxx, Julia, Flawer add yourself
Pictures
Google Street View
The view on building's facade and streets of Leipzig can be explored by using the Google Street View feature.
Leipzig on Google Maps : http://tinyurl.com/4hbq27l
Note : To go to Street Level, click and hold the little orange man above the zoom feature, and move the little orange man on the spot you want to "see" in street view.
Leipzig Context
Leipzig#Introduction_to_current_housing_situation
House features
- Self-Organized governance
- Communal and public space in ground floor
- Several flats with different parties in upper floors
- Empty large shared space in attic (for exhibitions, seminars, conference sessions, yoga, dance)
- Community connected Hackerspace/workshop/lab room (computers, bikes, crafts, arts)
- Lifestyle choices can be made into policy/protocol through democratic participation
- Kitchens may be meat free (or not - vote!)
- We may need a vegan kitchen (or not - vote!)
- We may need a smoking area (or not - vote!)
- Focus on healthy, simple living in community activities
- Organic Community Gardening
- Partnerships with local farms and suppliers
- Community activities like dances, yoga, personal growth and training seminars
- House and neighborhood biomass/composting program
- Info cafe with people's kitchen
- networking with other urban projects world-wide
- Renewable and efficient energy
- Recycling
- Sauna (yeah!)
24/7 Lab
http://sharewiki.org/en/247labs
Ideal Situation
Characteristics I believe important for setting up a base for a post industrial project in Leipzig are :
- being situated next to a S Bahn stop ( or not more then 5 to 10 minute
walk )
- being situated within a 10 minute biking radius from the centre, or from University
- being situated nearby greenery
- being situated nearby gardening allotments
- being situated nearby declined industrial buildings which could be
purchased for post-manufacturing
- having a unique looking architecture / building
- having a potential for the development of a diversified
lively neighborhood, including school and former "church" building ( for the atmosphere :) )
- having access to a garden and to a view
- being in a calm neighborhood
- additionally, I imagine it can be considered to look into vacant
constructible land, to build our own construction,
- or to find ways of enabling modular construction within existing ( declined
? industrial ? ) architectural spaces, such as a "gasometer"
Microeconomic and Peer Economy potential and context ?
http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/contents/
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Wealth_Building
http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purincess/3998063911/sizes/o/
Ownership / Usership
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_Usership
possibly in combination with
also see :
http://p2pfoundation.net/A_Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design
Funding and Costs
Prices of Buildings
A 5 story building (1910 buildings?) costs :
- around 50.000 euro to purchase in an emerging western neighborhood of Leipzig.
- 20 to 30.000 euro to purchase in a rather empty centre east neighborhood of Leipzig.
Anthony says :
"it's true that some buildings in Leipzig are being sold for 30k€. But some of these require 30k€ of repairs. It's important to visit the buildings with an engineer to determine the move-in cost. Also, count on 6% to 12% in legal fees."
Dante prefers to buy a whole street, or neighborhood, in the cheaper areas of town
BUT
The empty streets in the centre-east part of Leipzig might still be owned in great part by the former GDR Housing Cooperative (currently under city authority?), although there are also privately owned buildings for sale.
It might require a re-development plan to present to the local authorities to create an opportunity to get one of the streets out of what might be a current market hoarding of these streets from the housing cooperative. - needs to be verified!
Anthony says:
"The LWB (former DDR housing authority) does own many buildings in Leipzig. They are trying (with DDR efficiency) to sell them. When I first started talking to them, I did not speak German, and they were very patient and helpful. It was a positive experience every step of the way."
Renovation Costs
to evaluate - Dante is interested in the possibility to set up cooperative business for building modular interior structures ?
Funding
Funding is possible through , for example, a legal framework such as Syndikat, potentially leading to a 3/4 credit from an "ethical" bank, with little interest. For a 20.000 euro, 5 story building, this would represent an initial cash investment of 5000 euro for the purchase of one building.
- It would be way better to mobilize "direct credits" (people who lend us money) then approaching bank. (Fabzgy)
Legal Frameworks
info book on legal frameworks : Rechtsformen für Wohnprojekte http://www.stiftung-trias.de/infomaterial.html
Purchasing Examples
For example, to buy a five floor, 600 square meter building, at the cost of 60 000 euros, it may be possible to divide it in 10 flats of 50 square meters.
The purchase of one flat then is 6000 euros, for which a 3/4 credit is possible, hence 1500 euros cash needed to buy a flat.
To pay off the credit, at no interest,
one can symbolically imagine that it costs "1 euro a day, for 11 years, 11 months and 11 days"
or
"11 euros a day, for 1 year , 1 month and 1 day"
after which it is fully your property, although I would opt for the set up of a cooperative structure of property and governance of the properties, enabling "usership" shares.
Another important point being to set up legal frameworks that enable limited liability and a fund to enable shares to remain within the cooperative structure in case of personal defaults to a loan.
Alternative Non-Central Bank Money Purchase
See :
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Housing_Usership_Design
Model for Viagere Purchase and Rent :
http://commoning.com/wiki/Viagere ( dead link )
Create housing commons without requiring national/central bank currencies.
Approach :
Purchase Usufruct and Property via a contract in "Viagere" / "Reverse Mortgage Pension" paid in "Rent Usufruct Units" in exchange of "Care Service Hours".
http://commoning.com/wiki/Talk:Viagere ( dead link )
"avoid capitalist wage slavery by finding a solution with people that already paid off their loans."
Mutual credit with trusted routing, and/or Asymmetric exchange ?
Living Costs and Taxes
Robrecht asks :
"concerning the Leipzig project , we need an estimation of living costs (in the first stage), so how much is the yearly tax on a building, other costs like for waste water etc, energy and heating etc of course we want to be self suporting cc energy etc, but in a first period this would maybe not at once be possible."
Anthony answers :
"The annual tax on the GS-10 is a couple hundred euro and the water is about the same."
Alternative Purchasing Model
Dante is interested in considering the potential to ask current owners to allow us to buy shares of the buildings progressively, without requiring to take a bank loan.
Such contract with a owner would lead to the current owner transferring the property to a legal structure we set up ( a cooperative or Gmbh ), and then owning all the shares, but enabling us to buy over the shares progressively, at a fixed price.
http://schwarz10.de/about/Gmbh.html
or under
Mietshauser Syndikat ( http://www.syndikat.org/ ) :
http://www.zollschuppenverein.de/wiki/index.php/Zolle_11
more examples :
http://p2pfoundation.net/Common_Stock_Commons
http://p2pfoundation.net/Community_Land_Partnership
http://p2pfoundation.net/Limited_Liability_Partnership
http://p2pfoundation.net/Chris_Cook_on_Capital_Partnerships
Lease Hold ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbbaurecht
Housing Availability Search
Alternative Housing-Search Purchase/ Rent: http://www.lvz-immo.de (Wohnungen Leipzig | A Service from "Leipziger Volkszeitung")
Availability of Housing under Municipal Housing Company Managment ( "Leipziger Wohnungs und Baugesellschaft" ) :
Purchase :
http://lwb-immobilienangebote.de/index.php/objekte/suchen
Rent :
http://www.lwb.de/index.php?page=100
Land and Building Projects :
Buildings of Interest
In Neustadt :
In ...
Gasometer
here is a well known panorama expo in a gasometer in the south of Leipzig
http://www.asisi.de/de/Panometer/Amazonien/
there is another gasometer , empty, no more roof, which is available not far from the central station in Leipzig - which might be interesting to buy here :
it most likely looks like this from inside :
http://gegenteiltag.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/p51506801.jpg
Modular Housing
http://utilihab.wikia.com/wiki/Utilihab_Wiki
Tensegrity
Using Tensegrity, organizing a collective / festival attracting "tent builders", but also architects, engineers, students...
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/
http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe
http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/message/view/Tent/40703949
Groups for Leipzig
Various local groups wanting to invest resources or time in one or more Leipzig housing projects.
- Brussels: http://groups.google.com/group/bxl4leipzig
- Ecotopia: http://groups.google.com/group/ecohousing
Infrastructure
http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project/Infrastructure
Infrastructure Mapping
Leipzig as "Back to the Land Hub"
The idea is to create a urban convergence space for people living an alternative, "back to the land" lifestyle, living around Leipzig,
and providing infrastructure and opportunities supporting logistics related to people living a "back to the land" lifestyle in the surroundings of Leipzig.
See historical perspective :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement
Home Steading / Self sufficiency :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading
Links - Local Food Project :
http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/localfoodproject?setcount=100
Culture and Community
http://bolo.cnr.ch/english.htm
"The number of 500 persons seems to be a kind of upper level limit for 'spontaneously' functioning larger social organisms."
http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles
"business-empowered communities: they are not companies linked to a community, but transnational communities that have acquired enterprises in order to gain continuity in time and robustness"
http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism
"Festival is the self-management and self-design of our own leisure time and space, the realization of what we need to live and evolve as a species, with the most minimal harm to any other species. Festival is a way of doing business that respects people, communities, and the ecology. Festival balances stakeholder interests in the future generation (stakeholders include workers, managers, owners, investors, customers, local communities, future generations, and the ecosystem)." ( http://cbae.nmsu.edu/%7Edboje/papers/Festivalism_at_Work.html )
Art Center
http://www.spinnerei.de/from-cotton-to-culture-en.html?lang=1
http://www.spinnerei.de/position-plan.html
"70,000 square metres of active surface distributed in 23 single buildings"
http://www.halle14.org/info/english-information.html
"Since the beginning of the 1990s, artists, gallerists and others involved in creative work have built a productive and lively community at this location"
Income Streams & Local Economy
Ideally (according to Dante), developing "resilient communities" through setting up our own (open cooperative?) production infrastructures, from food to potentially micro-electronics, and potentially inspired by other projects such as "Open Source Ecology" such as "Factor E-Farm".
Cooperative Ecology Project
Alex Rollin is collecting information about cooperative approaches for community living using P2P methods. On the P2P Foundation wiki you can find a wealth of resources that are related to how free/libre voluntary networks and federations operate, along with examples and a gigantic category of resources and operations related to the commons.
Leipzig is a great inspiration for collecting together and co-editing foundational resources because the gift of Leipzig is hope; hope that a large scale project can work, if for no other reason than the buy in prices are low enough to be realistic. If this is all becoming more realistic, then the question turns to 'how do we do this?'
http://p2pfoundation.net/Cooperative_Ecology_Project
The Cooperative Ecology Project is a terrible name, but I hadn't thought of a better one. It's a functional description for a set of tools allowing a wide number of cooperative enterprises to establish a network that can insure survival in a hybrid economic atmosphere where profit and capitalism still exist.
Additional supporting research is being published on the P2P Foundation wiki, including the recent addition of a page on Peer-to-Peer in Multi-Unit Housing.
"Jobless Recovery"
http://knol.google.com/k/paul-d-fernhout/beyond-a-jobless-recovery#
Other brainstormings
First stage ?
- Collaborative research
- Plan development
- Building a network of pioneers who want to move to Leipzig
- Musical Parties
- Added value food production ( slow food volks kuche ? )
- Events and hospitality
Not for Private Profit Shops
- Tourist Info http://www.use-it.be/europe/
- Coworking Hubs, including Tutoring Centres -
examples : http://onceuponaschool.org/ , http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/welcome-to-rockzipfel
- "VolxKüche" - http://www.sevacafe.org/ , http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volxküche
Volunteering Initiatives
Participating in a EU funded youth program ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Voluntary_Service
More info regarding EVS :
Overall overview with short video presentation :
http://europa.eu/youth/volunteering_-_exchanges/european_voluntary_service/index_eu_en.html
current partner organizations data base :
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm
procedures
for volunteers :
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/european-voluntary-service_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/programme-guide_en.htm
Alternative Entrepreneurship Centres
Participating in a EU funded program ?
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/
Fablabs/Workshops
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab
Earth De-polluting Cooperative
Set up of a cooperative to biologically clease / depollute / detoxify industrially polluted earth in Leipzig.
Cradle to Cradle & Upcycling Cooperatives
Design Consulting and Peer production Upcycling Production
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle_Design
" It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling
" Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. "
Pre-Building : Tensegrity Tent & Modular Housing
see above - http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project#Modular_Housing
Energy
Various sources of renewable energy can enable the storage of energy through extracting hydrogen from water, and then use the hydrogen for certain adapted combustion engines.
Links:
Internal Combustion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Internal_combustion_vehicle ;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle
Electrolysis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water
related : http://cashwiki.org/en/Hydrogen_Economy
Alternative Engine Propulsion
See Resilient Engine
Distribution of Peer Production
Fair Ware
http://p2pfoundation.net/FairWare
proposal for an "Open Source physical product distribution infrastructure"
Fair Ware Goals
- bring peer designed products to the market in an accountable way
- make sure that needs of all stakeholders are met
- creative people get their share
- producers can produce under human conditions
- users get quality and reliability
- foster cooperation and improved product design
- facilitate quality control by branding
- exert democratic control over a brand name
- create resilience towards proprietory action
- empower the growth of compatibilty and coherence (interoperability) between Open Products in the physical world.
http://fairwork.mixxt.org/networks/wiki/index.english%20intro
Allotment Gardens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29#Germany
" The idea of organised allotment gardening reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called "Schreber Movement" started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony. "
Mesh Communication Networks
Contributing to ( ? )
Alternative Finance
Dante feels that there is potential in supporting local economics through complementary currencies. To start with, mutual credit, or demurrage types of currencies, which can eventually be guaranteed through a reserve of euros, or guaranteed by production.
Local economics could trade outside of their economies, which could increase the reserve of euros that can also be used to buy products outside of the local economic production, especially to build up local production infrastructures.
Alternative University and learning infrastructures
http://sharewiki.org/en/Alternative_Learning_for_Leipzig
Policies for a Sharable (Leipzig) City
http://www.shareable.net/tag/policies-for-a-shareable-city
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city
http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-vision-for-shareable-cities-video
Sharing Makes 8/10 Happy
http://www.shareable.net/blog/8-out-of-10-people-say-sharing-makes-them-happy
#12: Food Sharing
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-12-food-sharing
#11: Urban Agriculture
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-11-urban-agriculture
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-10-shareable-rooftops
#9: Recreational Spaces
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-9-recreational-and-green-spaces
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-8-shareable-workspaces
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-7-shareable-neighborhoods
#6: Homes as Sharing Hubs
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-6-homes-as-sharing-hubs
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-5-shareable-housing
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-4-shareable-commercial-spaces
#3: Bike Sharing
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-3-bike-sharing
#2: Ride Sharing
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city-2-ridesharing
#1: Car Sharing and Parking Sharing
http://www.shareable.net/blog/policies-shareable-city-%25231-carsharing-and-parking-sharing
People and Random Interest and Context Tags ( add more )
Creatively inspired, (Semi) Nomad, Do it together, (Single) Parent, Learning, ...
City Infrastructures
Transportation
S Bahn
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/36794
- Leipzig Linien 1
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122015 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122015
- Linien 2
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=122442 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/122442
ps: ideal when coming from some other place in Germany : regional train ticket ( 30 euros/5 persons ), and wochenende ticket ( 35 euros/5 persons/week-end), most likely valid on S Bahn
Tram Lines
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/infrastruktur/oepnv/
New Transportation Infrastructures
Underground Train
"The City Tunnel of Leipzig is the last and central component of the railway system restructuring process in Greater Leipzig. Not only the suburban train system can be restructured after the tunnel has been put into operation but also the traffic connections between the region and the City will be improved and give major impetus to the development of the City’s traffic system."
"The City Tunnel consists of two single-track tunnel tubes constructed by way of shield driving. Length of each tunnel tube 1,438 m."
"Construction of four underground stations, open cut: Leipzig Hbf (Leipzig main rail Station), Markt (Market), Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (Wilhelm-Leuschner Place), Bayerischer Bahnhof (Bavarian Station)"
"2010: Putting into service upon change of timetable." --> probably the city tunnel will not be ready before 2013.
http://www.citytunnelleipzig.de/english/english_information.html
Urban Planning Projects
http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/stadtentw/step/
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/stadt_leipzig/stadtentw/planwerk/
Some Historical Facts and People
City History
"at one time biggest cotton spinning mill in continental Europe"
Suggested Neighbourhoods
expensive ones:
Südvorstadt (south)
schleussig ( centre , between plagwitz and sudvorstadt, near park - yuppie )
connewitz ( south )
becoming expensive:
lindenau
plagwitz here are alot of old factory structures, which are constructed into living apartements. Could be interesting for you. But i suspect that it is to late for getting some cheap places there.
cheaper ones :
neustadt ( eisenbahn strasse ) - east
Stötteritz - east
nationalist presence - slow gentrification :
reutnitz - east Edit: the nationalist have a new political centre opened near lindenauer markt in lindenau. most of them moved from Reudnitz to Lindenau and they try to build up a new structure their. The gentrification is actually in lindenau very obvious. There are alot of deprived people, but also there is growing an artist and alternative community. thats why it is becoming expensive, but not the whole neighbourhood, only a few quarters. Lindenau is big and there are also many cheap corners.
Don´t be afraid of nationalists in leipzig. Here are alot more left wing people and only a few nationalists, that doesn´t count. The situation IN leipzig is much more different to the situation in the suburbs.
klein zschocher - south west
Past Meetings
August 2010, 3 first weeks :
Ecotopia held in a place between Berlin and Leipzig, near Belzig ( the regional train between Berlin and Leipzig stops by Belzig ) : Map Link
Contact Dante as he will be roaming between the Ecotopia, Berlin and Leipzig in August.
Furthermore, there is an opportunity to be hosted in an empty 150 square meter space we can self organize, in a building in Leipzig which recently renovated its waterpipes and kitchen.
Geographical Layering Information
Dante is interested for the project to provide "Geographical Information System" solutions, for representing various data about the project on layered maps, facilitating open collaboration.
See discussion on :
http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas/browse_thread/thread/537023c878ae4263
also considering drupal gmap extension :
http://drupal.org/project/gmap
Linked Geo Data
http://linkedgeodata.org/About
LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.
http://blog.aksw.org/2011/linkedgeodata-release-2/
http://linkedgeodata.org/OnlineAccess
( based in Leipzig )
Semantic Web and Graphs
How to Develop Automatic Intelligence (AI) Link: http://blog.automenta.com/2011/02/how-to-develop-automatic-intelligence.html
AKSW Department at University of Leipzig
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)
is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). It consists of the three subgroups Emergent Semantics, Machine Learning and Ontology Engineering, and Semantic Abstraction.
http://code.google.com/p/rdfauthor/
Communication Tools and Escrow Account Registration
Dante wishes to adopt the Drupal platform used by Nomadbase's, and adapt it as to enable new users to "Register" for a "space", and add either 1500 euros ( non-renovated ) or 3000 euros ( renovated ) in an escrow account to purchase their apartment.
Events in Leipzig
Yearly "Wave-Gotik-Treffen"
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/info.php
"The Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2011 will be from 10th June 2011 until 13th June 2011 in Leipzig/Germany."
External links
- Haushalten.org (de) - Association preventing decay of old houses by using them for various purposes
- Summary in English (en)
- Syndikat (de) - Association consulting, investing in and initiating housing projects all over Germany
- Sublab.org (de) - Hack space in Leipzig (Hackerspaces entry)
- de.veganwiki.org about Leipzig (de) - People's kitchen locations, often squats and the likes
- kuhturm.de (de/en) - Exhibition space, co-run by Sebastian Helms, a friend of Meinhard :)
- http://www.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/ (en) - Leipzig image campaign, mostly business b.s.
- http://www.art-magazin.de/newsticker/index.html?news_id=3726 (de) - City of Leipzig invites Hamburg artist squatters (Sep 2009)
- Rockzipfel Leipzig (en/de) - Co-working space for parents and children
- http://somnulatorium.org/GS-10/ (en) - Housing project Georg-Schwarz-Strasse 10 (in early phase)
- LVZ-Online (de) - Newspaper | Online Newsportal]