Hurbanity, the concept
Hurbanity completes a comprehensive diagnosis of the local housing market and designs a project based on the results. The objective is always to produce quality homes that meet market expectations, while optimizing construction costs to the maximum.
Hurbanity selects EVP families that have shown interest in the project based on socioeconomic criteria, evaluation of their current housing situation, and their interest in developing an entrepreneurial project within the new community.
With the help of its local partners, Hurbanity seeks out and identifies the most favorable land for the project: land that has infrastructure which connects it to the nearest economics centers and that is located in an attractive area for families with more economic resources.
As with any housing project, Hurbanity promotes its project commercially in order to attract EPP families to join the project, through advertising and promotional events.
Hurbanity sells the homes to interested families through a standard contract, which specifies the conditions of sale, but also the challenges in regards to the creation of the community, and an anti-property-speculation clause.
Hurbanity organizes participatory workshops with residents in order to co-define the community spaces and the businesses to be established within the community. This facilitates the development of healthy community dynamics.
Hurbanity manages the construction of the project with local partners by organizing the design and coordinating labor and construction. Hurbanity also recommends that future residents participate in the construction of future housing.
Hurbanity supports families that want to develop small businesses, in agreement with the proposals of the community. To achieve this, personalized professional trainings will be made available.
Hurbanity, with its local partners, accompanies residents as they work together, through roundtable discussions, to articulate expectations for the daily life of the community. The promotion of community activities can stimulate a common culture.
Once the community is established, Hurbanity organizes a follow-up process of at least 2 years to ensure the effective functioning of the businesses and services of entrepreneurs, the financial stability
of the most economically vulnerable families, and the success of the community to live together.
Hurbanity completes a comprehensive diagnosis of the local housing market and designs a project based on the results. The objective is always to produce quality homes that meet market expectations, while optimizing construction costs to the maximum.
With the help of its local partners, Hurbanity seeks out and identifies the most favorable land for the project: land that has infrastructure which connects it to the nearest economics centers and that is located in an attractive area for families with more economic resources.
Hurbanity sells the homes to interested families through a standard contract, which specifies the conditions of sale, but also the challenges in regards to the creation of the community, and an anti-property-speculation clause.
Hurbanity manages the construction of the project with local partners by organizing the design and coordinating labor and construction. Hurbanity also recommends that future residents participate in the construction of future housing.
Hurbanity selects EVP families that have shown interest in the project based on socioeconomic criteria, evaluation of their current housing situation, and their interest in developing an entrepreneurial project within the new community.
As with any housing project, Hurbanity promotes its project commercially in order to attract EPP families to join the project, through advertising and promotional events.
Hurbanity organizes participatory workshops with residents in order to co-define the community spaces and the businesses to be established within the community. This facilitates the development of healthy community dynamics.
Hurbanity supports families that want to develop small businesses, in agreement with the proposals of the community. To achieve this, personalized professional trainings will be made available.
Hurbanity, with its local partners, accompanies residents as they work together, through roundtable discussions, to articulate expectations for the daily life of the community. The promotion of community activities can stimulate a common culture.
Once the community is established, Hurbanity organizes a follow-up process of at least 2 years to ensure the effective functioning of the businesses and services of entrepreneurs, the financial stability
of the most economically vulnerable families, and the success of the community to live together.
A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC MODEL
Hurbanity developed a lasting economic model based on the reinvestment of profits from the housing project to support families in a vulnerable economic situation, but also through fundraising to finance the establishment of the community and support local entrepreneurship.
A CROSS-SECTIONAL APPROACH FOR A GLOBAL IMPACT
During a 4-year cycle, Hurbanity designs and constructs homes and community spaces, simultaneously accompanying the development of the community and the establishment of local businesses and services.
Design and build housing
Hurbanity uses the traditional tools of the market economy in order to generate profits and then fully reinvest them with a social objective: to facilitate access to property for EVP families in areas that offer sociospatial diversity.
Facilitating the establishment of socially stable and economically sustainable communities.
Hurbanity uses fundraising as a complement to its economic model to finance the establishment of communities and local services and also to facilitate access to entrepreneurship opportunities for interested families.
CHANGE LIVES WITH HURBANITY
The choice to live within a Hurbanity community is the choice to feel good at home, to live in a welcoming environment that values relationships and a sense of security through knowing your neighbors. It is also a long-term commitment to a more just economy based on social diversity.
Get in touch with us, and get involved.
To join a Hurbanity community is choosing to take advantage to improve his everyday’s life. It’s living in a dignified house, benefiting from a model that builds and strengthens the social relations of the community, by benefiting of vocational training and of the opportunity to develop his own business activity to improve his everyday’s conditions of life and the one of his family.
But you can also get involved in Hurbanity helping with her financial development.