THE QUESTION
Why has housing become so expensive in this town?
Group cards you judge alike. Groups organise reading; they decide nothing.
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Clusters form from similarity, names come last
Canonical order: link pairs of ideas you judge similar — links are symmetric (A~B is B~A; direction never matters) and a tie holds once 2 members make it.
why
Links are symmetric — A~B is B~A. Clusters are the groups that emerge from held ties, and only a formed cluster can be named, by a person. Your own links carry a ✕ to withdraw; you cannot remove someone else's. Clusters organise the wall and never gate the vote — two cards making the same CLAIM are a merge back in Clarify.
Links and names are made while Cluster is live; the steward’s ← reopens it.
An apprentice takes four years and leaves in two
Observed, not measured — I would want the data too.
cluster 2
Nothing said yet.
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
Nobody in the council can read a build programme
~ Nobody can afford to …Nobody can afford to live where the work is (17)
Nobody can afford to live where the work is
~ Nobody in the council…Nobody in the council can read a build programme (17)
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
An apprentice takes four years and leaves in two
~ Building anything tak…Building anything takes years of permissions (14)
Building anything takes years of permissions
~ An apprentice takes f…An apprentice takes four years and leaves in two (14)
· not yet clustered (31)
Nobody builds for people who do not have a deposit
The lender's rules decide the flat layout, not the family
The rules change between application and approval
Every job is subcontracted three deep
The conditions attached cost more than the build
~ Interest costs more t…Interest costs more than materials now (16)
~ Empty flats are worth…Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners (19)
The grid has no capacity and no plan to get any
The land price already assumes the permission
Interest costs more than materials now
~ The conditions attach…The conditions attached cost more than the build (16)
~ The bank wants pre-sa…The bank wants pre-sales before it lends (14)
~ Empty flats are worth…Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners (14)
A permission takes longer than the money is available for
A small site is as expensive to permit as a large one
We are blamed for prices we do not set
The bank wants pre-sales before it lends
~ Interest costs more t…Interest costs more than materials now (14)
Nobody insures a small builder for a tall building
Rents rise faster than wages every year
Nobody on site is employed by the company on the sign
Bringing an old building back costs twice new build
A house is a financial product before it is a home
Site assembly means buying from six owners who all know
Two regulators disagree about the same wall
Utilities quote eighteen months for a connection
The scheme that gets approved is not the scheme that gets built
We build what the mortgage lender will lend on
The council sold its own land to plug a budget hole
Every consultee has a veto and none has a deadline
Quality is what you get when someone stays for the whole job
There is no trade left that can do lime plaster
An option agreement ties land up for a decade
We cannot compete for land against a firm that can wait
Building safety rules were written after a disaster, and rightly
Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners
~ Interest costs more t…Interest costs more than materials now (14)
~ The conditions attach…The conditions attached cost more than the build (19)
The archaeology survey took nine months and found nothing