SHLTR.

Home ownership was the foundation of generational stability for a century. It is becoming structurally impossible for the next generation in almost every developed economy. This is not a market correction. It is a systemic failure — of planning, of political will, of an industry that profits from scarcity.

The housing crisis is not new. What is new is who it's affecting. No longer the marginalised. Now it's the educated, employed, mobile — and still locked out.

The same technological shift being blamed for economic disruption — mass automation, structural unemployment, the hollowing of middle-income work — is making the affordability crisis worse.

The AI optimists say it will create abundance. The pessimists say it will create chaos. Both might be right. What neither is saying loudly enough: the same tools could be turned toward the problem.

That's worth testing. Seriously. In public →

SHLTR is a documented experiment. One person, building an off-grid hybrid home — shipping containers and self-built domes — at 60° north in coastal Norway. AI used at every stage: design, engineering, planning, project management. Failures published as clearly as the wins. Funded by the book that documents it.

Not a startup. Not a movement. Not yet. A proof of concept — that one person, with the right tools and radical transparency, can compress what used to require an architect, a structural engineer, a quantity surveyor, and a project manager into something navigable.

Every design file. Every AI prompt that worked. Every calculation. Every supplier comparison. Every mistake.

GitHome is the repository for physical homes — version-controlled, forkable, improvable. The first commit is this build. The second is yours. The designs belong to everyone.