**Pattern Name:** Relocalize Infrastructure
**Introduction:**
Who owns your neighborhood infrastructure? Why? Who governs it? Who is employed in providing your infrastructure? Who profits? Who pays?
**Illustration:**
**CONTEXT:**
Every neighborhood is dependent upon infrastructure. Much of the viability of the neighborhood depends upon "Mission Critical Functions."
Many jobs are required. Are outsiders doing this work? Why?
Does the neighborhood own and govern their vital infrastructure.
How dependent is the neighborhood on outsiders?
**PROBLEM:**
**Much of the economy of any neighborhood is involved in providing essential infrastructure functions. Often the quality of infrastructure, the timeliness of response to local needs, and the profit from providing these services are not controlled by residents.**
**Forces:**
**THEREFORE (SOLUTION):**
**Systematically return this ownership, governance, management, and labor to the neighborhood.**
**Do it better and cheaper by involving residents (volunteers and associations) alongside paid workers. Deploy local monitoring (human observation) and local use of internet of things monitoring capability.**
**Actions:**
Explore legal structures for these individual neighborhood enterprises AND for their Joint Metasystems.
Use Causal Loop Modeling, VSM, Sofi, Linkage Mapping and ReLocalize patterns to see and keep track of the systems and interactions of interest.
**Consequences:**
Improved local quality of life--including the local ecosystem, economy and resilience.
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