THE WAY WE BUILD

🕯️MISSION

Help those who need a home, build a home.

Not charity, but empowerment — people learning to shape shelter, community, and meaning with their own hands.

🌅 VISION

People learning by building, and teaching by doing.

Teachers teaching, then students becoming teachers. A community of shared knowledge, tools, and trust — where everyone can create a place to belong.

🪜STRATEGY

Begin — learn by doing; build skill, knowledge, and credibility through direct experience.

Prototype — build homes for under $10,000 that prove what’s possible.

Partner — collaborate with local governments, landholders, and communities to create legal, replicable models.

Share — open-source designs and stories that inspire others to build.

🎯 GOALS

Short Term Goals

  • Matt to learn how to build a house 

Mid Term Goals

  • Build house for under $10,000 

  • Launch a competition for a pilot partner city and select the first site

Long Term Goals

  • House 10,000 people

🪵 Core Values

  • With our own hands – making, learning, and doing.

  • Built together — co-creation, reciprocity, and shared growth

  • Ever-building — growing, adapting, and teaching forward.

  • Becoming through making — growth through meaningful work, service, and creation.