Dear Fellow Human,
Where and how you live makes a huge impact on your life. It starts, and it ends, at home. Home is where you re-charge — more than just your cellphone and laptop. Home is safe. Home needs to be safe because that’s where you keep…not just your love. Home is cozy. Your home should fit you like a onesie — the kind with feet. Your home should be the place where you dream of things other than a better home.
Imagine back to the comfort of your childhood bedroom. Your bedroom was your domain, your space, more your womb than your room — it was within a residence, but your bedroom was yours, and it was all you needed in the world. As we fast forward into adulthood, we subconsciously long for, and attempt to recreate that familiar comfort within rented apartments, and starter homes that we don’t even really like very much.
So we started to think about how we live, and we started speaking to people about how they live. Individually and collectively. Online and offline. And we learned a few things that we just can’t un-learn. The negative effects of being unhappy with your home are overwhelmingly dangerous to your well-being, and create added stress to your life. The real estate market has put us in boxes, literally, figuratively — boxes that do not suit our needs, but only our budgets. The existing process and entire economic model for residential housing is skewed, over-inflated, and flat out archaic.
The end result is high rent, for space we don’t even need, while creating equity and personal wealth for your landlord rather than yourself. There are close to zero options when looking to buy a really cool house, for a great price, while also being located in a safe and central location. We, as a people, need to get back to basics by understanding how large of a home we actually need, rather than the space we are offered within our budget.
We founded this work from the ground up, by first focusing on making a positive impact on people’s lives by changing the way people live. It shouldn’t matter how much money you have in your bank account, it should only matter how much space and the configuration and options that you require to make you happy, comfortable and a proud homeowner, in a safe, secure, and desirable area.
One for all, all for one, and one for one — for every home that finds a person, we donate a tiny shelter for a person in need. Building a home follows the same principals as rebuilding a life — if we’re going to make a difference, we must start from the ground up. Recipients are trained to build their own shelters from a prefabricated kit. Physically elevating one’s life from the ground up, by building their own shelter and learning a skill.
For the first time in history, those with great resources and those with less share with each other a multitude of commonalities. Acceptance and open-mindedness towards others, awareness and conservation of our natural resources — these principals bind us together as human beings, no matter our current monetary net worth. Join us as we tear down the pre-historic residential housing market infrastructure, and rebuild the quality of life for all.
Respectfully yours,
FireIs.land