Strategy – CrowdDoing

Project 4 – Biophelia in Hospitals / Living Walls & Vertical Gardens

2020-03-26T19:04:25-05:00

Biophelia in Hospitals / Living Walls & Vertical Gardens

Partner

DESCRIPTION

Plant proximity has been shown to be beneficial in multiple ways including from air pollution reduction & stress reduction. These leverage points have been demonstrated to have positive medical consequences in terms of reduced opioid addiction, reduced medical mistakes, prevention of diseases & conditions such as hypertension & related complications, asthma, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, diabetes, alzheimers & dementia, schizophrenia, rheumatoid arthritisacute pancreatits, chronic kidney disease. We have also evaluated the consequences of proximity to plants on hospital staff presenteeism, absenteeism & turnover rates. We have concluded that under any scenario we have tested, a network of plant walls & vertical gardens and other uses of plants could pay for themselves in as little as two years and provide beneficial outcomes for more than 20 years.

Plant proximity is understood by the scientific community through the lens of “biophelia”. Biophelia is the visual & sensory experience of plants and proximity to plants. You have expertise relevant to reviewing for validity and applicability our simulation of biophelia in hospitals. Our draft aims to forecast the social outcomes that could be caused by varying scenarios of biophelia in hospitals. We have identified more than 100 outcomes that in principle can be attributed to biophelia. We present here in draft for review a partial simulation of this impact potential. We have aimed to consider prospective benefits to all stakeholders. We have structured this to be a flexible model that can be adapted to any hospital circumstance. We’ve aimed to identify both health outcomes, environmental outcomes financial outcomes.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Our team has a draft financial model of how vertical gardens pay for themselves in libraries and hospitals. Our team has a thesis of how biophelia can save hundreds of lives per hospital per twenty years. Our team has identified more than one hundred diseases that are preventable thorugh biophelia density in hospitals being increased.

VOLUNTEERS INVOLVED

Yashwant Chunduru, Finance
Tom Watson, Design

REPORTS

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Project 5 – Zero Subsidy Affordable Housing

Administrator2020-03-26T18:46:54-05:00

Zero Subsidy Affordable Housing

Partner

Marc Rand, Mark Moulton

DESCRIPTION

This project is based on the idea that if people could buy only a percentage of the appreciation value that they can afford, and still secure stable access to a home, up to half of homelessness in dense urban regions could be prevented. Home buyers today buy 100% of a home at the time of purchase,and borrow money through a mortgage to be able to afford to do so. But this purchase masks the fact that they are buying two things at the same time- 100% of the future sale price of a home (so-called appreciation value), and 100% of the usage rights of that home while they are living there (so-called use value). If people could buy only the percentage of appreciation value that they can afford, and still secure stable access to a home, half of homelessness in dense, coastal urban regions such as the Bay Area, New York, Seattle could be prevented.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Our team has reviewed several financial theories, and the Stanford University model of providing zero-subsidy affordable housing for off-campus professors to develop a financial model. One of the theories reviewed was how publicly traded holding companies can use accretion, dilution and stock swapping to secure private assets through creating access to liquidity and diversification. Our team has also reviewed how liquidity and diversification can support the subsequent achievement of housing access. If zero-subsidy affordable housing was at scale, then anyone who could buy one-quarter of a home’s appreciation value in locations such as the Bay Area, Seattle, NYC, and secure access to stable housing. The financial model would replicate the theories studied and demonstrate the feasibility of the homeless prevention thesis. Our team has reviewed how publicly traded holding companies can use accretion, dilution and stock swapping to secure private assets by creating access to liquidity and diversification. Our team has reviewed how liquidity and diversification in phase one can support the achievement of housing access in phase two. If zero-subsidy affordable housing was at scale, then anyone who could buy one-quarter of a home’s appreciation value in a high growth, coastal, high inequality city could then secure access to stable housing.

VOLUNTEERS INVOLVED

Kusuma Chethan, Lead vounteer coordinator

REPORTS

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