We are not primarily 'providing' housing. We are providing a whole frame of reference, including access to care, friends and peer group, access to cabinetry shop or gardens and all of the healthful aspects of community. We are helping people help themselves. With our help, these people can be a largely self-sufficient community and no longer be part of a large, underserved population. The more I talk to people about Rocinante, the more I see how many people are not well fixed to retire.
Many people are afraid.
Rocinante intends to show how even these marginal people, working in concert, can create at least a measure of societal safety in this era of burst safety nets. The prevailing mood of the money people in the United States is that there will not be universal health coverage in the US if they can prevent it. That is 5 years from now. The article went on to say that some form of collectivity seemed necessary. Rocinante is timely.