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# What a Foundry Builds

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A Foundry is **not** a housing project. It's a physical regenerative development hub — durable infrastructure, a trained workforce, and a reclaimed-material supply chain. Housing is the most visible output; the product is the whole neighborhood's comeback, **owned by the people who build it.**
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## One Foundry = a neighborhood's engine

| Output                     | What it is                                                                                 |
| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 🏠 **Homes**               | Rehab + infill housing — \~60% held as rent-to-equity, \~40% on a member ownership pathway |
| 🏪 **Commercial**          | DAO-owned storefronts, business leasing, and a 100+ capacity community Hall                |
| 👷 **Jobs + skills**       | A trained local workforce — trades, OSHA/journeyman certs, real careers                    |
| ♻️ **Recovered materials** | Deconstruction + salvage — a circular, local building-material supply chain                |

All of it built by — and owned by — the community.

## The 7 zones

The hub is organized into seven zones that turn salvaged material and member labor into finished neighborhood assets:

```mermaid
flowchart LR
    Yard["Yard<br/>intake, sort, grade salvage"] --> Depot["Depot<br/>storage, logistics"]
    Depot --> Workshop["Workshop<br/>repair + training"]
    Depot --> Forge["Forge<br/>heavy fabrication"]
    Workshop --> Sites["Construction sites"]
    Forge --> Sites
    Hall["Hall<br/>community + training"] -->|training pipeline| Workshop
```

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Material flow" %}
**Yard** (intake, sort, grade salvage) → **Depot** (storage, logistics) → **Workshop** (repair + hands-on training) → **Forge** (heavy fabrication: metal, concrete, prefab) → construction sites.
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="People & ops" %}
**Station** (operations command), **Hall** (community, training, governance — 100+ capacity), **Loft** (admin/leadership: finance, HR, compliance). Members move through a **Hall → Workshop → site** training pipeline, earning certifications and EQTBLT as they progress.
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

## Why this structure matters to the model

The Foundry is three things at once:

1. **A capital asset** — an owned, appreciating facility whose value rises as it *activates* the surrounding neighborhood (not via speculation).
2. **A production engine** — turning salvaged material + member labor into cheaper builds, saleable stock, a trained workforce, and finished housing + commercial space.
3. **An equity issuer** — minting EQTBLT for work, converting labor into community ownership over time.

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**Year One funds and stands up two co-leads** (Detroit + Chicago); additional cohorts follow on proof and demand. The 4–5-hub portfolio is the trajectory — never a fixed promise. No hub is built ahead of its community.
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[The Foundry & the 7 Zones](/how-it-works/how-it-works.md)
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