Access to housing is both a question of **allocation** (who gets to benefit from the value of the house?) and **Governance (**who decides what happens to the house?)

Property is a simple system that **concentrates both** **allocation and governance onto the property owner.** Only those who can afford to acquire a lease or title can benefit from the utility of housing, or decide to redistribute it. Once property rights have been acquired, the owner has exclusive control over the house for their own interests.

In this stream of work we ask:

> What technologies could be part of facilitating a shift in how we allocate and govern housing, forests, rivers and more as a common resource, rather than property?
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The first phase of exploring technologies to address this was through a research partnership for a housing model with Canopy (Berlin), an innovative set of living spaces suspended above a suite of spaces for play, livelihoods and events. In conceiving of a house being an entity entangled in its environment, a collective emerged to practice the socio-cultural elements of a self-regulating entity with steward participation.

We now wish to build the route to establishing a flow of modular smart contracts as a test of ‘Frin’ a suite of smart contracts for moving ownership into the commons. This next grant period covers experimenting with parameters for integrating contracts for common resource management.