Field guides · Urban Residential Holdouts · L8.2
L8.2

Bus-Dependent Renters

Renters whose trip home uses up the evening, while every good thing on offer sits somewhere they can't easily get to.

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Urban Residential Holdouts · One of 2
In this guide
IDo now
IIWho lives here
IIIWhere it is cracking
IVWhat to say
VA story to share
VIFor you
IIWho lives here

Read on the street, not on a spreadsheet.

Setting

Almost everybody here rents, and about nine out of ten homes on these blocks are rented rather than owned. Most of the housing went up before 1980, and very little has been added since.

Work

No single trade sets the pace of the week here. Office and administrative work and healthcare support work are almost exactly even with each other.

What they are hungry for

Somebody who comes to where they already are, rather than naming a place and expecting them to get there.

IIIWhere it is crackingSigns, not proof of anything

You cannot know the reason from the sidewalk.

The invitation that was never possible
Quiet hallways read as empty ones
Everybody gets treated as the same household
The rest of
the guide

What to do this week, what to say, and why the news is good on this particular street.

The full guide carries the four first actions, three real conversation scenarios with the notes underneath each line, a story worth telling here, and the Gospel written into what this street is actually carrying. It is free, and it opens in the browser.

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