{"id":58,"date":"2008-06-22T10:18:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T17:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2021-03-02T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T13:30:32","slug":"nobodys-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/nobodys-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody&#8217;s Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Anita Garner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/SKYSCRAPERS.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5690 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/SKYSCRAPERS.jpg?resize=339%2C226&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/SKYSCRAPERS.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/SKYSCRAPERS.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/SKYSCRAPERS.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 85vw, 339px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">Twenty years ago, during a pre-dawn drive through Los Angeles neighborhoods on my way to church early on a Sunday morning, I wrote notes on this subject.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It was my turn that day to help prepare the chapel for worship and as I drove to my first stop at a coffee shop, I noticed lights\u00a0in a few windows and imagined early risers like me, with coffee or tea and the Sunday paper. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Turning a corner that took me into an urban area, the buildings grew taller and the lights inside shone only into empty offices and corridors.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Not a single person was there at this hour. Thousands of square feet of space remained empty all weekend and every night\u00a0after\u00a0workers went home.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Come Monday morning, freeways would be clogged with people driving to temporarily populate these work spaces.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">All of a sudden, that one Sunday morning, everything about this picture seemed wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">These notes come from the late 1980&#8217;s, B.E.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><strong>Before <\/strong>the Northridge <strong>Earthquake<\/strong> of &#8217;94. In the aftermath of that quake, after crucial freeways collapsed, some employers set up satellite offices so workers could get to a space with computers. It was a swell solution but it didn&#8217;t last.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">These thoughts troubled me B.A.I.T.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><strong>Before<\/strong> millions of citizens began to embrace <strong>An Inconvenient Truth <\/strong>about the effects of global warming and how our present way of life contributes to it. But we still haven&#8217;t changed many bad habits.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">My notes are B.C.O.C.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><strong>Before<\/strong> the <strong>Current Oil Catastrophe<\/strong>.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now that gasoline prices have reached a new obscene level, we&#8217;re hearing about more employers considering flex time and job sharing &#8211; ways for commuters to take care of their families and not go broke getting to work everyday.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>But it&#8217;s not happening fast enough.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">Lately we&#8217;ve added the current housing market crisis.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Twenty years after that Sunday morning, we&#8217;re still not close to solutions. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">That Sunday, instead of listening to the sermon, I scribbled notes.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Recently I found them and the notes ask, Is it time for a real urban village?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Is it time to re-purpose office buildings?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Within one tall building in any city, an entire village could reside, with shops and services and education and housing in all shapes and sizes.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>A skyscraper could serve its original business, but with more people working from home, the need for office space is minimized.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>With entire floors devoted to living, the commute for others is gone completely.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">What about the people who own those buildings?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>How can they receive a return on their investment?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I don&#8217;t know as much as business leaders and politicians do about manipulating the economy, but I&#8217;m confident they&#8217;ll find ways to make money in any kind of market. They always do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">One approach to replacement revenue might be to use some of the subsidies that now go toward housing on a local and national level to defray costs.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Responding to the needs of this new urban community, services and stores inside\u00a0the\u00a0buildings\u00a0would pay rent. Tenants would pay rent.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">I know people &#8211; some of them young and single, some retirement age, some families, who are ready for this kind of new village right this minute.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>For the &#8220;show\u00a0me&#8221; others, when it exists, it&#8217;ll be an option they&#8217;ll consider.\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">It means changing dreams. The notion of a house in the suburbs, miles away from a city, relies on automobiles and gasoline. Instead of building more freeways to carry us to houses far away from work, we could make upgrading mass transit a priority.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">Money can buy options for many who\u00a0won&#8217;t have to face changes, but for\u00a0millions of people right this minute,\u00a0downsizing is necessary.\u00a0I won&#8217;t\u00a0use the word &#8220;affordable&#8221; next to the word &#8220;housing&#8221; because so often it&#8217;s an insult.\u00a0 How about &#8220;realistic&#8221; instead?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">Architects\u00a0with skills and vision and heart can\u00a0turn any existing tall building into a workable and lovely and sustainable small town.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">Using what we&#8217;ve already got isn&#8217;t a new idea. Our ancestors did it.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The principle of re-purposing is something we heard about from our elders.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It worked for them.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>If we&#8217;re smart, we can make it work for us.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;\"><span style=\"mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;\">\u00d3<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> Anita Garner 2008<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/anita.garner.9\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5506\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/facebook.jpeg?resize=65%2C65&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anita Garner Twenty years ago, during a pre-dawn drive through Los Angeles neighborhoods on my way to church early on a Sunday morning, I wrote notes on this subject.\u00a0 It was my turn that day to help prepare the chapel for worship and as I drove to my first stop at a coffee shop, &hellip; 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