#Home, #smarthome
One couple’s #starterhome in a connected community in #California shows how smart energy powered by smart home technology could be the future of affordable, energy-independent living. As part of a series of articles on smart homes, the Verge visits an #energyefficient home in the southern California desert that's "part of California's first planned smart, #solar-powered residential microgrid community." https://www.theverge.com/23751315/smart-home-energy-microgrid-efficiency-independent #climatechange #climatecrisis

we get many stories on #homeownership decline, death of the #StarterHome, financialized inequality, but rarely on the many initiatives finding new paths (see eg #NewStarterHomes). It's a fine line b/t reporting and #reification, ie naturalizing a problem. @Rondakaysen
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First-time homebuyers have been shut out of the housing market in numbers not seen in 41 years of tracking. I corresponded with dozens of …
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