Subjugating & Silencing Diversity in the Narrative

And How Workforce Houising usurped the funding for Affordable Housing

The vanishing life of lyrical nature. The Poppies that once were on the lawn of our now-gone homestead in East Boothbay.

Following up on my last post, my suggestion of mapping the larger community interested in Artist Housing on Ersi, was not well received by the spokesperson for Maine Artists Co-Housing Group, who interpreted it, as people often do, as suggesting that I was suggesting that my idea be the entire focus of the group. I am already experiencing the reason why I do not embrace communal sharing situations, and so I am thrown back toward working for my independent concept of Business in Residence Zoning as a potential group that can develop the idea, but I don’t think I can do it alone. It is a project that needs feedback.

First, let me say that a reason for approaching the creative space issue as a zoning issue is that, through zoning, standard conditions can be established that create a ground for many diverse communities that are consistent with those conditions, a diversi…