Land & Housing
4 articlesRestore the Land. Restore the Commons. Earn a Life Pass.
The Dominion Lands Act of 1872 gave away 80 million hectares — a continent enclosed one quarter-section at a time. Restore-to-Own runs the same programme, inverted: return an acre to the commons, earn a lifetime claim on the five basics.
The Land Is Already Here
False Creek South and the fight for a city that works. The tools, the land, and the legal structures exist. What's needed now is people — and the decision of who organises first.
Vancouver Housing Policy Analysis: Five Models Compared
Market rate, Broadway Plan, False Creek South, Copenhagen, and Singapore HDB — evaluated through the LEI/FEI framework. Interactive data tables and extraction analysis.
Market Capture or People Captured: Land Value
Singapore solved housing speculation by making property depreciate over time. Copenhagen kept costs low through cooperative ownership. Vancouver did neither. A four-jurisdiction comparison.
Economics & Systems
5 articlesThe 3rd Way: Beyond Market or Government
Neither capitalism nor state socialism. The neighbourhood-scale cooperative model that exists between the two dominant systems — and why it's the only one that accounts for the community's actual assets.
Private Taxes: The Invisible Hand Exposed
Rent, interest, insurance, and platform fees are taxes — they're just collected by private entities rather than governments. Mapping the invisible extraction that precedes every public tax you pay.
Tale of Two Cycles
The debt cycle and the life cycle run at different speeds and serve different masters. What happens when you map one against the other — and how community systems can bridge the gap.
Debt, Interest & the Death of GDP
Debts that can't be paid won't be — and the conventional macroeconomic framework has no honest answer for what comes next. A systems view of compound interest, growth, and collapse.
Why We Need a Citizens Dashboard
Official city communications and peer-reviewed evidence are often in direct contradiction. The Citizens Dashboard makes that gap visible — policy accountability as public infrastructure.
Governance & Civic
3 articlesUnrepresented: A Democratic Deficit and How to Fix the System
The gap between who votes, who governs, and who benefits has never been wider. A structural analysis of Vancouver's democratic deficit and the design changes that could close it.
The Fine Print
Every major policy document contains language that quietly transfers risk, liability, and cost to residents. A guide to reading what governments actually commit to — and what they don't.
Bill M216: Who Wins and Who Loses
A population-weighted analysis of BC's Professional Reliance Act. 78,000 people gain from the change. 4.9 million lose governance protections. Interactive stakeholder visualisation.
Mobility & Food
2 articlesMobility for Life: Cost Analysis and the Card Game
What does getting around actually cost across a lifetime? Full cost modelling for transit, rideshare, cycling, and car ownership — plus the Mobility card game built to teach it in schools.
Food for Generations: K–12 Program
A food literacy and local economy program designed for K–12 classrooms. How to build direct farm relationships, cooperative buying, and intergenerational food knowledge into the school system.
The Framework
What is the LEI?
The Lifetime Efficiency Index measures how much of a citizen's finite working lifetime is consumed by basic necessities — housing, food, transport, healthcare — across jurisdictions. It reveals not just what things cost, but how much of your life they take. Vancouver scores 99.9%. Copenhagen scores 63.7%. The gap is not explained by supply alone.
The Framework
What is Blockonomics?
Blockonomics is the analytical framework behind Block Share. It starts with a simple observation: every city block already has a multi-million dollar economy flowing through it. Nobody accounts for it. Blockonomics makes that invisible power visible — then provides tools to redirect even a small fraction toward community systems.
More in development
Upcoming work includes excerpts from Default — the book — Community Credits economic modelling results, agent-based simulation reports, the 10 Core Myths series, and deeper dives into the Blockonomics framework. Follow The Decentralist for early access.