Housing Resilience: Creative Paths to Spending Less and Living More
June 18 @ 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM CDT
Housing Resilience: Creative Paths to Spending Less and Living More
Thursday, June 18, 2026
- Pacific time: 1pm-3pm
- Mountain time: 2pm-4pm
- Central time: 3pm-5pm
- Eastern time: 4pm-6pm
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Running on empty trying to come up with cash to pay for housing? Learn cost-effective ways to improve your housing and your life in this 2-hour workshop led by Erin Axelrod from LIFT Economy!
About the event
For hundreds of millions of people in the US, housing is a primary financial burden, with renters and homeowners often spending 30-50% or more of their income on housing costs alone. Are you burning out just trying to maintain a roof over your head?
Scholars have noted that the manufactured American dream of the “nuclear family” has further individualized these costs, as opposed to sharing the costs and work of sustaining a household across multiple generations (as has been done for generations before the 20th century).
The good news is: we can find our way back!
In this 2-hour interactive workshop, Erin will focus on housing resilience. Participants will learn how to creatively develop practical and personalized next steps (including research, budgeting, and co-living experiments) to design a life that leads to abundance and meaningful housing that can also dramatically reduce your housing spend.
This session is rooted in a curriculum developed for our 6-month online Next Economy Living program that teaches strategies for crafting a life that provides for your needs while being in deep alignment with cooperative values and community-building.
In this session, you’ll learn about:
- Developing a detailed map of creative ideas to help you identify your next step towards housing resilience
- Actions you can take to share the elements of your dream household with your networks, so they can help you find it
- Steps that you can take now to practice communal sharing of resources, even if you don’t live in a community
- Creative ideas around housing that you may not have thought of before
- Networking and connection with others on this path
- Inspiring case stories of personal life design choices others have made around housing that generated positive benefits for their quality of life and connection to purpose
About your presenter
Erin Axelrod
Erin Axelrod is business consultant and worker-owner at LIFT Economy (lifteconomy.com) where she works with clients and facilitates a 9-month online learning journey called the Next Economy MBA, with 800+ alumni. She is a co-facilitator of the Next Economy Living program focused on personal life design for building liberatory communities of practice to escape from the traps of the business as usual economy. She co-founded the $1.1M Force for Good Fund, The Next Egg, and works with clients all over the country including Jonas Philanthropies & Winona’s Hemp & Heritage Farm. Erin lives and works in unceded ohlone territory with her partner, 2-year old daughter in an extended multi-family household and tends to sheep and a small herd of dairy goats. When not working, she enjoys time with her family tending the land, growing mushrooms, planting trees, solar-cooking and harvesting & growing wild foods to make nutrient-dense foods for her friends.
The LIFT team has spent over ten years working with more than 250 social enterprises and organizations that are growing the Next Economy, many of which are led by founders and entrepreneurs dedicated to this question of – how do I LIVE in a way that embodies my values and meets my needs? Outside of their work at LIFT Economy, their team has coached thousands of individuals about personal living choices that can dramatically enhance personal wellbeing, financial resilience and contribute meaningfully to solving societal challenges.
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