Yes, I really like that idea. Co-development is important, as well as people learning to build their own homes again.
If you go to any reserve and see where homes have been built by contractors or developers, what's missing sometimes is the inclusion of the people for whom those homes were built, as in the training, the participation, the co-design, the set-up of the grounds, the design of the rooms and putting the thing together. There's a lot of hands-on, on-the-ground work that's missing. Once they get into the home, and they have the key, all of a sudden, things start to go wrong. Then it's everybody else's fault that the toilet doesn't flush, the blinds don't work or the fan is out of order or that kind of thing.
Whereas, if people had on-the-ground experience of putting this stuff together, learning how to do it—I'm assuming that these are the trades that have to do with building homes, which can include indigenous and gender-diverse people, women and young people learning how to do what we used to be able to do—then you would see a lot of pride in ownership and pride in maintaining these things. How do I know this? I've done it myself. If anyone tries to separate me from my tiny home, woe betide.
I'll stop there.
