10 Ways the Starter Home Plan is Different
The Starter Home Plan and Playbooks are a boldly comprehensive roadmap for transformational change. A lot goes into making that happen, and it hasn't been done before.
Takes a boldly comprehensive approach
Encompasses all four critical areas of the starter home ecosystem (Land and Development, Policy and Regulation, Financing, and Workforce) and explicitly addresses their complex interactions.
Prioritizes evaluation & transparency
Tests hypotheses, refines methods, and validates the model through analysis of data collected from demonstration projects; publishes continuously updated performance data online.
Delivers an actionable roadmap
Combines rigor and practicality in a detailed, task-level application guide based on current research, promising practices, practical expertise, and prevailing conditions.
Thinks & acts like a network
Relies on proven principles of leadership in impact networks: prioritizing mission over organization; humility over brand; trust over control; and constellations over stars.
Collaborates deeply
Not the work of one expert, perspective, or sector; leans on partnerships with respected thought and practice leaders across all four focus areas and assertively engages the private sector.
Centers offsite methods & systems-based development
Assumes their potential to augment and enhance current approaches, emphasizes them strategically, and identifies all conditions required for their success.
Recognizes adaptive challenges
Understands that the impact of previous efforts was limited by a focus on technical issues without addressing critical barriers rooted in expectations, habits, incentives, processes, and products.
Confronts production disconnects
Acknowledges tensions between the pipeline needed to expand factory capacity, the risk tolerance of financiers, and the biases of development; proposes ways to create the rhythm of scaled throughput.
Embraces discovery
Seeks breakthroughs by welcoming emergent ideas across sectors, industries, and communities; releases problem solving by fostering interdependence rather than blame.
Compels ownership
Motivates sustained commitment from ecosystem actors, helping them lean into risk and investing them in the work’s success.