Community
Radical Collaboration: From Shared Ambition to Shared Asset
See Radical Collaboration in practice through a hypothetical neighborhood workshop, from first idea and shared commitments to everyday operation.
Built By DAO Team9 min read
Community
21 articles in this category
Community
Repair First: How to Keep a Home in Use
A practical repair-first guide for Chicago and Detroit: diagnose the problem, define the scope, find current help, and keep an existing home safe and useful.
Built By DAO Team8 min read
Community
Deconstruction vs. Demolition: What Should Happen Before a Building Comes Down?
Compare deconstruction, selective salvage, and demolition through a practical building assessment: safety, recoverable materials, local buyers, cost, and schedule.
Built By DAO Team8 min read
Community
Community Real Estate Project Management: From Site Control to Opening
How to manage a neighborhood property project across decisions, schedule, budget, funding, construction changes, and handover to a long-term operator.
Built By DAO Team6 min read
Community
From Community Input to a Buildable Design Brief
A practical guide to turning neighborhood needs into space requirements, honest tradeoffs, documented decisions, and a brief that a project team can use.
Built By DAO Team6 min read
Community
How to Research a Vacant Property Before You Pitch It
A practical first screen for vacant buildings and lots: identify the parcel, check ownership, find the sale route, and decide what needs professional diligence.
Built By DAO Team6 min read
Community
From Building to Neighborhood Asset: The Real Steps Behind a Built By DAO Project
How a promising property becomes a lasting neighborhood asset: sourcing, ownership, community design, feasibility, capital, delivery, and stewardship.
Built By DAO Team11 min read
Community
The Feasibility Checklist for a Community Building
Screen property control, permitted use, building condition, community demand, economics, and team capacity before committing to a neighborhood building.
Built By DAO Team6 min read
Community
South Shore Is Not a Turnaround Story. It's a Custody Question.
South Shore has the bones. What it's been missing is a system that keeps wealth in the hands of the people who built the neighborhood. Community development works when residents hold the keys, not just the lease.
Built By DAO Team4 min read
Community
Radical Collaboration: Who Decides and Who Benefits?
Radical Collaboration needs clear decisions and benefits. Connect local input, paid work, shared authority and lasting participation in community projects.
Built By DAO Team9 min read
TechnologyCommunity
Own What You Help Build: Why DAOs Matter Now
DAOs are here, and they're changing how organizations run — with code instead of bosses, and power flowing to those who show up and contribute. Here's why now is the time to get involved.
Built By DAO Team3 min read
CommunityGovernance
How DAO Governance Works: From Proposal to Execution
Follow a BBD proposal through its category, eligible participation, decision, cooling-off period, execution and review.
Built By DAO Team4 min read
CommunityHousing
Building Stronger Neighborhoods Through Shared Ownership
When residents own a stake in their buildings, neighborhoods stabilize. Here's how shared ownership reduces displacement and creates community wealth.
Built By DAO Team4 min read
CommunityGovernance
Community Governance: Who Decides in Built By DAO?
An introduction to BBD’s Contributors, Investors and Council, and how shared decisions connect to accountable action.
Built By DAO Team3 min read
Community
Radical Collaboration: Share Resources, Stay Independent
Radical Collaboration helps independent organizations share tools, space and services. Learn how to divide costs, protect access and keep decisions clear.
Built By DAO Team9 min read
TechnologyCommunity
Decentralized Governance: Collective Decisions for Collective Success
DAOs put decision-making back in the hands of the community through blockchain-powered governance. Explore how decentralized voting, smart contracts, and transparency create fairer organizations.
Built By DAO Team4 min read
TechnologyCommunity
What is a DAO and Why Should You Care?
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are reshaping how we collaborate, create value, and organize. Learn what DAOs are, how they work, and why they matter for the future of ownership and community.
Built By DAO Team5 min read
HousingCommunity
Built By DAO: A Solution for Young Adults Seeking Homeownership and a Digital Nomad Lifestyle
Young adults face unprecedented barriers to homeownership. Built By DAO combines cooperative ownership with digital nomad flexibility to create a new path to building equity.
Built By DAO Team3 min read
Remote WorkCommunity
The Digital Nomad Lifestyle
The digital nomad lifestyle is reshaping how people work and live. Explore the freedom, affordability, and challenges of location-independent living and how to build equity along the way.
Built By DAO Team4 min read
HousingCommunity
Community Property Records: Connecting Decisions, Work and Money
The four records that make shared property understandable: decisions, work, money and outcomes—and how BBD connects them.
Built By DAO Team4 min read
Community
Radical Collaboration: Building What We Cannot Build Alone
Radical Collaboration connects people, resources and shared decisions. Explore how neighborhood effort can create lasting community assets.
Built By DAO Team9 min read