Summary of Projected Impacts

Economic Impact

Economic Impact on the Individual

An individual, living car-free in a Holigent community will be able to eliminate the cost of car purchase, insurance, maintenance, fuel and other car-related expenses. Rent reduction through C-credit earned in community service will further reduce the cost of living.  The Holigent socioeconomic arrangement (Delta Plan) helps secure job and affordable housing.  

Reducing Reliance on Oil

For decades the U.S. imported over 50% of the oil needed to run our economy. At that rate the U.S. economy is potentially held hostage to foreign oil and some of our oil money found its way to terrorist organizations and still helps to finance their operations against the U.S. Consequently the U.S. had to spend additional billions of dollars to fight terrorism. Under the buzz about the newfound U.S. oil riches, there are justified concerns about the probable short life expectancy of “fracking” and serious concerns about the accompanying environmental damage. Holigent Reconstruct America would progressively and significantly lower energy demand and demonstrate a replicable socioeconomic model of high productivity at reduced reliance on fossil fuel.

Helping to Balance Trade

This Proposal will reduce consumption of goods and energy thus improve US balance of trade.

Social Impact

Saved Commute Time

On average, an individual participating in the car-free live/work program will save 240 hours per year based on the typical big city commutes. Community service commitments convert part of that saved time to economic value for the individual and for the community. In addition, interaction and bonding with team members during community service provides a social benefit. The rest of the time reclaimed from the car commute will increase residents’ free time for social activities and recreation, further improving the quality of life.

Health Benefits

Holigent Urban Villages, with car-free pedestrian cores, provide for their residents a built-in opportunity for daily walks. In addition, participation in community construction and maintenance provide additional opportunity for physical activity. Parks with recreational facilities within the community complex will contribute to healthful and stress-free living. Research associates such stress-free and healthful lifestyles with improved fitness and lower incidences of illness.  

Social and Economic Security

The Holigent Solution through its Variable Commitment Allocation Plan (Delta Plan) provides agreements among participating employers, their employee-residents, and the nonprofit community developer/management organization by which individuals will be able to preserve their jobs and their housing even during economic recessions. The arrangements will help preserve social and economic continuity and security.

Improved Quality of Life

In a Holigent Village quality of life will be secured by means other than money alone.  Consequently money will loose its monopoly on value exchange.  The hybrid arrangement provided by the physical and economic rearrangements of life and work, summarized in the Delta Plan, will increasingly secure quality of life unaffected by local or global economic downturns.

Impact on Transportation

Reduced Traffic Congestion

As the project expands and participation grows each year, a greater number of people will transition from car-dependent to car-free living. Fewer cars on the roads will reduce the number of auto accidents and will decrease traffic congestion. Faster-flowing traffic will result in reduced energy consumption, fewer wasted hours and improved productivity.

Improved Mass Transportation

The Holigent developments, with future cellular arrangement of urban villages, will lend itself to the development of an efficient high-speed electric train or monorail mass transit lines that will connect Holigent Villages and to existing transit lines. The Holigent Solution will promote the development and use of efficient mass transit systems.

Environmental Impact

Reduced CO2 Emissions

Fully developed Holigent Urban Villages could be 80% to 100% car-free. According to EPA, the average car emits over 5 tons of CO2 per year. Accordingly, this program can yield a significant reduction of CO2 emissions.  There will be additional reduction in CO2 emission and other pollutants associated with the manufacture and shipping of cars.

Environmental Restoration and Protection

A portion of the direct human resource derived from community service will be allocated to habitat restoration and environmental protection in and adjacent to Holigent developments.

Reducing the Burden on Government

The Department of Health and Human Services, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Defense, and the Treasury Department (servicing the national debt), are the four entities of the Federal Government with budgets towering over those of all other federal agencies. Their spending is mainly responsible for the $27 trillion (as of end 2020) national debt.

Reducing the Burden on the Social Security Administration

The Social Security Administration’s budget for 2013 was over $800 billion and growing. The Federal government is uncertain whether it can sustain the current level of social security benefits much longer. The Holigent Proposal could tackle this dilemma. In addition to the rental income, Holigent Communities are projected to generate direct human resources derived from the members’ community service agreements. With the self generated resources and built-in arrangements of social and economic security, the Holigent Communities will have a capacity to assist all its participating residents, into their old age, thus requiring reduced assistance from the Social Security Administration.   

Reducing the Burden on the Department of Health and Human Services

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, at nearly $900 billion (2013), is the largest in the Federal budget. This department is a major contributor to unsustainable federal spending. The solution for health and well-being provided through the Holigent Proposal is focused on lifestyle and prevention of illness as well as providing a community-supported health care system.

An emphasis on walking in the pedestrian Villages and the participation in community service will provide a built-in routine of physical exercise. Car-free living, reduced rent, and the absence of a freeway commute will reduce stress levels. Social and economic security in walkable compact urban villages improves the quality of life. It is well documented by research that an active, secure and stress-free lifestyle is an effective way to maintain physical and emotional health and fitness.  

In addition to these built-in preventions, Holigent Communities will have the self-generated funds and human resources to provide excellent health and human services with reduced assistance from the Federal government, thus reducing the burden on the Department of Health and Human Services.