On that line, there are attempts here to innovate. There has been a pre-fab log housing program here. People have done stack-wall, straw bale, and rammed earth housing, but there's very little incentive to encourage people to innovate, particularly at lower income levels. There have been discussions about creating free-standing housing cooperatives, and other kinds of structures to do it. But how does that happen, and how, at both the federal and territorial levels, are those processes assisted to make it easier for people on low incomes to thrive rather than just survive?
As I said, my work in Chile was in housing programs. Before the Pinochet military dictatorship, the innovation in housing and the things they were doing to provide basic needs in housing were incredible for a third world country. I still think we're behind where they were in the early 1970s in how to encourage people to address those basic needs themselves or in communities.