Homelessness Ends by 2028?
The way the story intervenes is with a focus on addressing unmet needs through a gradual process framed by a story. That means creating an opportunity through a better way of doing things. It’s a decentralized strategy that assesses people’s skills and interest to spark synergy through a series of events perceived as a story.
Over the past six years, my research has led me to a conclusion:
California is being guided by an outdated, industrial-age systems that quietly shape the behavior of our politicians. These systems operate almost invisibly, allowing performative leadership to persist because the public lacks the clarity or tools to hold it accountable.
As a result, our political system is failing to meet the needs of the people. By implementing a process that facilitates transparency, we can activate the “observer effect” to get leaders “into character” in California.
What is your plan?
I’ve developed a concept that works like a story, designed to create alignment between what currently exists and what is possible. It unfolds gradually, in “chapters,” each one creating opportunities for collaboration and measurable progress.
Because this approach is new, I’ve built a way to demonstrate it in real time through an interactive story. This will begin as a nonprofit initiative, allowing the model to be tested, refined, and proven before being introduced into a government system.
What meaningful impact would this have?
It would end homelessness and inject local culture with opportunity. By showing how local communities can meet their own essential needs, such as healthcare, education, childcare, and food systems through coordinated private and community-driven efforts, the cost of government exponentially decreases.
This leads to:
- Lower property, sales, and income taxes
- Reduced reliance on government assistance
- Stronger, more self-sustaining communities
How is this possible?
Today’s systems often extract value from people through their data, labor, and consumption. The approach shifts the focus toward storytelling as a creation tool with incentivizes to create what does not exist through new learned behaviors and collaboration.
In this model:
- The narrative becomes the interface that guides participation
- Money shifts to the background; the shift focuses to the scenes in the story
- Shared success is demonstrated in a way that makes it scalable
How will it be implemented?
While the concept is simple in principle, it does require a shared frame of reference to understand how to participate in it. I’ve created a story that assigns roles based on archetypes and unmet needs through a local narrative. This allows individuals to experience what will be an intuitive and scalable experience across all communities.
How will you address homelessness?
I’ve been thinking about homelessness for a long time - it’s complex, but solvable through the local decentralized concept of 150-person communities. The approach is to build local micro-economies that intentionally integrate unhoused individuals into the fabric of the community.
This concept is grounded in decades of observation. In the 1990s, I worked in homeless communities as a research assistant for UCLA, and later, as a teacher, I saw how deeply education and housing instability are connected.
Homelessness begins when systems fail to recognize value. This has caused families to fall into crisis, and these problems compound quickly. Long-standing institutional structures have allowed these issues to persist without a meaningful intervention.
What is your first step as a leader?
I will demonstrate this model in a single community.
By proving that a local micro-economy can function, support its members, and reduce dependence on traditional systems, we create a replicable framework. As more communities adopt the model, the conditions that produce homelessness begin to disappear. The ties into the creative brief of America — “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”.