Building the Future of Housing: How Equity Crowdfunding is Rewriting the Rules of Real Estate and Regenerative Living

By Jean-Marc La Flamme, Regenerative Development @ Geoship

The old systems are changing. Real estate, capitalism, governance — they are no longer dynamic enough to properly serve humanity or the planet. At Geoship, we see an opportunity to co-create decentralized, regenerative communities rooted in nature and owned by the people. Equity crowdfunding is the tool empowering us to rise together.

In 2014, the year Geoship was founded by Morgan Bierschenk and Bas Kools, I also co-founded SeedUps — North America’s first equity crowdfunding platform. We believed that ordinary people should own the businesses shaping the future. That dream is now reality — and regenerative.

Geoship: Regenerative by Design

Geoship is a Social Purpose Corporation (SPC) — legally bound to prioritize purpose over profit. We are decentralized, with thousands of global investors. Our homes are built with bioceramic materials: non-toxic, recyclable, fireproof, and harmonious with nature.

Imagine a home that regenerates the planet and co-owners who are also customers — that's the foundation of a new real estate paradigm.

Today, 2–3 billion people live without adequate shelter. 3.5 billion are poor. 20 million Americans are “house poor” and barely able to afford food due to cost of living, while another 3–4 billion are severely impacted by climate change. Through regenerative development, we can transform housing into a platform for shared prosperity.

The Real Estate Problem

Real estate today is bloated with extractive layers: financiers, speculators, brokers, bureaucracy. Housing is treated as a commodity, not a human right. This system drives up costs, concentrates wealth, and erodes community.

Back to First Principles

At Geoship, we ask: What is the purpose of housing? Shelter. Safety. Community. Connection to nature. We build from these first principles — eliminating unnecessary complexity and returning to transparency, equity, and simplicity.

Crypto, AI, and the Rise of Decentralized Tech

Blockchain enables decentralized finance and governance. Crypto unlocks global access to capital. AI will soon co-create our regenerative communities — a system that will help anyone become a micro-developer, guiding land access, design, financing, and stewardship.

These technologies are the nervous system of the new civilization.

Our Equity Crowdfunding Journey

We’ve completed three successful crowdfunding rounds, raising millions from everyday believers in a regenerative future. A new opportunity launches next month.

Homeowners can be company owners. Community builders can become regenerative developers.

This is more than building homes — it’s about designing a civilization grounded in life systems.

Bioregional Financing: A Fuller Vision

The Buckminster Fuller Institute’s framework for Bioregional Financing inspires our path. These regenerative finance facilities:

1. Align with living systems and Indigenous wisdom

2. Serve bioregional regeneration strategies

3. Enable inclusive, participatory governance

4. Shift power imbalances and foster equity

5. Promote transparency and empowered participation

6. Use integrated, regenerative capital models

7. Treat growth as a means, not an end

8. Attract aligned, mission-driven investment

9. Match solutions with communities

10. Apply robust sensing and verification

11. Center storytelling as transformation

12. Foster place-based partnerships and stewardship

    
    

We aim to embed all twelve attributes. Geoship’s ecosystem is laying the foundation for regenerative economies rooted in community and Earth.

Why It Matters

This strategy unlocks massive benefits:

• Democratizing ownership of housing and infrastructure

• Revitalizing ecosystems and reversing climate collapse

• Launching a wave of regenerative innovation and creativity

• Reducing the cost of living and redistributing wealth

• Creating place-based systems for food, water, energy, and waste

• Healing not only the planet, but the human spirit

  
  

So, Where Do You Start?

We know the term “regenerative development” can sound utopian — especially when there are so few working examples. Investors and stewards want to know what to do.

Here’s how you get started:

1. Clarify Your Vision — Define your goals, values, and desired community scale. Are you building for 5 people or 500? What principles will guide your project?

2. Engage Your Bioregion — Connect with local knowledge keepers, ecological data, and community voices. Regeneration starts with relationship.

3. Form Your Team — Work with regenerative designers, local accountants, cooperative lawyers, and community builders.

4. Design the Village Blueprint — Use AI to learn about infrastructure (energy, water, food, waste), governance, and finance. Soon we will have a village builder platform.

5. Secure Integrated Financing — Invest in Geoship, explore a combination of crypto tools, private capital, and shared ownership.

6. Prototype & Iterate — Host events. Start with one home or cluster and listen to the land. Learn and evolve. Regeneration is an iterative, place-based process.

We are here to build step by step — with grit, integrity, and co-creative power. Join our Ambassador Program and meet the others to learn all these steps with hundreds of other regens from around the world!

What Would Buckminster Fuller Say?

He would say: “Don’t fight the old, build the new.” Equity crowdfunding, crypto, and AI are the tools to build a world that works for 100% of humanity — with no ecological harm or disadvantage to anyone.

But our movement is not about escaping into idealism. We build with earth under our nails, fire in our hearts, and systems thinking in our hands. We honor the bones of the past and compost its wisdom into the foundation of what comes next.

Call to Action: Join the Movement

If you're a visionary, innovator, or ecosystem builder: now is the time. Let’s pool our capital. Extract from the extractors. Forge bioregional finance systems, regenerative homes, and sacred infrastructure in harmony with Earth.

Reshaping the Future of Housing — A New Paradigm for Regenerative Living

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