The Bristol Commons is a movement of people coming together to create change. We aim to nurture community resilience and abundance through grassroots democracy and networks of mutual aid. Our vision is for a world in which everyone effectively and enjoyably meets their own and each other’s needs, regenerating the natural world, and ourselves as part of it, through the collective power of the commons.
See our website for more information: https://thebristolcommons.org/whats-the-bristol-commons/

This event is part one of an event series following our Festival of Commoning, seeking to continue the threads of discussion from the day. They will explore how we can come together as a community to mitigate and address the ongoing crises in Housing, Health + Care, and Music + Arts.

~ Programme For the Day ~

10am - 10.30am Welcome and Introductions
10.30am - 12.15pm Commoning our Financial Privilege
12.15pm - 1pm Lunch Break
1pm - 2pm Open Space on grassroots solutions to the housing crisis

~ Commoning our Financial Privilege ~

This workshop will continue the conversations on this theme started at our Festival of Commoning, exploring how we can reimagine inheritance as a means to create more equitable access to secure housing.

Blurb from original session:

"We are about to see the largest transfer of wealth of the last hundred years. As the boomer generation reach the end of their lives, the massive amount of capital - predominantly in the form of housing - has begun to filter down to younger generations.
This is creating vast inequalities in access to housing, particularly given the housing/wage crisis meaning that often it is only those who have access to this kind of privilege can even dream of buying a house.

Join us for a discussion exploring how we can navigate this sticky subject in ways that are generative and open up new ways to think about inheritance and financial privilege.

Inspired by the work of housing activist Beth Stratford, we will be exploring questions like:
what level of rent is fair to charge to friends (or strangers), if any. What level represents the genuine effort you put in and costs you face as a landlord? Is it always exploitative? What compromises do we have to make to hack the current material realities?"

~ Open Space ~

Open Space is an emergent strategy to invite in multiple perspectives and allow people to shape the session to their particular interests or needs.
Participants are invited to propose a session, workshop or discussion point that fits within the general theme. The group will then break-out into a series of smaller sessions, held by those that proposed them, with space held at the end for each session to feed back into the whole group.

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