One of the most important aspects of this is that it gets people thinking in terms of what it takes to solve their problems, rather than strictly about the money.

I’ve been working with a community land trust. Houses take material, labor, and lots of planning to build. The easiest way to access that, of course, is with loads of money. But ultimately you can get it done with much much less money if you identify what you can actually do and then go do it yourselves.

They know what they did.

I didn’t actually weigh them, but the bigger two were maybe a half pound each.