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L8.1

Urban Residential Block Holdouts

People on these blocks live with a hard situation that never turns into an emergency, while every kind of help still waits for one.

Free · Yours to print · Seven field notes follow over two weeks
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

Renting is the usual arrangement on these blocks, and the homes that are owned are mostly owned outright, with the payments finished long ago.

Work

No single trade sets the pace here.

What they are hungry for

Somebody who plans for the hard week during an ordinary one, rather than showing up after it has already happened.

IIIWhere it is crackingSigns, not proof of anything

You cannot know the reason from the sidewalk.

The week everybody can predict and nobody plans for
Offers that arrive as verdicts
Managing gets mistaken for not needing
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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