Commons Items

President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights.

CLEAN AIR

CLEAN WATER

HEALTHY FOOD

BASIC SHELTER

• free dormitories in urban environments
• free resident-managed dormitories in urban environments

BASIC PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTHCARE

FREE URBAN TRANSIT

LAND USE COMMONS

• at least 50% of rooftops must be set aside for public gardens, wind turbines, solar
• at least 10% of all the acreage of land used for new multi-family housing has to be "set aside" for public commons, either in cash donation to land purchase funds, or actual land itself
• at least 10% of all public lands must be available for farming & community gardens
• at least 5% of all public lands must be available for camping/gatherings
• 10% of the market value of all single-family homes built and/or 25% of the market value of all multi-family homes built will go directly toward units that minimal wage workers can afford to buy/rent
• for homes built on land not near public transit, tax that pays for free urban transit

EDUCATION COMMONS

• schools to teach per "7 generation" principles
• business schools that receive public funding must teach "triple bottom line" principles
• establish public magnet schools that are horticultural academies that also care for public land & grow food

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