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March 17, 2026

Evolving Cooperative Systems: The Case of Housing and Homelessness, with Gregg Colbern and Olin Johannsen

In part II of a series on Housing and Homelessness, we look at the problem through the lens of evolutionary and complex systems theory.
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March 17, 2026
Evolving Cooperative Systems: The Case of Housing and Homelessness, with Gregg Colbern and Olin Johannsen

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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

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