If you want a picture of the future, imagine a billionaire with a chainsaw slashing through affordability, democracy and justice. But we can change the future.

In the fight between the affordability movement and bad billionaires, we actually have a shot at winning—by making housing, healthcare, food, transportation, and childcare truly affordable for all.

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Join the Affordability Revolution

Pick Your Battle:
5 Essential Services.

Pick Your Book:
Read the one that sharpens your strategy.

Change Your City:
NYC? Seattle?

Organize where you are, and build power where you can win.

Seven playbooks. Seven sectors of struggle—from city hall and state government, to public health, education, and the tech world. One radical truth: cities fail when housing, healthcare, healthy food, transportation, and childcare are treated as commodities instead of public goods. Pick your battle. Find your collective. Fight for what should belong to everyone. Affordability is a shared fight, and you’re invited in.

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If You Meet a Bad Billionaire with a Chainsaw on the Road

For everyday altruists who feel shock and clarity about injustice and want to turn that into focused action for affordability and justice in their communities.

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Five Essential Services, Public Health, and Bad Billionaire Backlash

For public health advocates, showing how making five essential services affordable can dramatically reduce our most costly and preventable health crises.

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Mayors, Affordable Cities, and Bad Billionaire Pushback

For organizers and residents who want to elect pro‑affordability mayors and champion city‑level policies that make the five essentials affordable for every resident.

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Bad Billionaires vs. Good Governors

For activists at the state level, providing a roadmap to elect pro‑affordability governors and advance statewide policies that secure the five essentials for all.

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The Little Red Schoolhouse vs. Bad Billionaires

For educators, parents, and students, transforming schools into healing hubs. School-based Family Resource Centers connect families to essentials—online, onsite, or through navigators.

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Bots, Bread, and Bad Billionaires

For AI and tech activists who want to use their expertise to advance affordability, challenge billionaire‑controlled media and platforms, and build ethical, people‑centered tech futures.

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Stories of Surviving and Thriving: The Annotated Dissertation

For university faculty, students, and community partners—and anyone who wants to turn research into real‑world solutions that strengthen affordability, democracy, and justice.

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We’re Creating an Affordable Nation One City at a Time.
Yours Can Be Next.

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Pro-affordability mayors just won in NYC and Seattle. That’s the model. Now it’s your turn.

When housing, healthcare, food, transportation, and childcare become luxury items, families flee. Schools lose funding. Workers can’t afford to stay. Democracy corrodes. The crisis isn’t accidental—it’s engineered by billionaire interests that profit from scarcity.

But if we act together around the 5 Essential services, cities become what they’re meant to be: places where anyone—not just the rich—can build a life. Work. Learn. Raise a family. Democracy and social justice thrive.

Ask Every Candidate These Six Questions:

  1. What’s your plan for safe, affordable housing?
  2. How will you make healthcare affordable and accessible?
  3. How will you improve access to healthy, affordable food?
  4. What steps will you take to make transportation reliable and affordable?
  5. How will you guarantee high-quality, affordable childcare?
  6. How do you see affordability connecting to democracy and justice?

Get the full playbook. Pick your book.

Author’s Statement

“Writing a guide to saving democracy by making services affordable for all residents is a new experiment—part how-to manual, part rallying cry. With equal measures of practical advice and urgent inspiration, this book collection is designed to move good-hearted readers from concern to action, supporting you every step as you help turn care into real, lasting change.”
—Dr. Dom Cappello

We have the framework for change. We have models from across the globe. All residents can play a part in local progress.

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Ready to Win Your City Back?

Step 1: Pick your playbook from the seven-book series.
Step 2: Buy the book.
Step 3: Use the Toolkit to act locally, organize regionally, and demand policy change.

Explore the 7 Books

Let the 5 Essentials Platform book collection guide and strengthen the Affordability Movement. Take the first step toward making housing, healthcare, and childcare more affordable. Every action counts in reshaping our cities.

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