Its research is published to coincide with the launch of a call to UK consumer and community groups to get involved in developing a manifesto for a more social economy – one where alternatives such as co-operative energy, social investment and social-enterprise housing groups are used to fix social and economic problems in the UK.
First opened in 2004, the enclave of capitalist enterprise houses mainly small-sized textile and electronics factories.
It was to train 10,000 (growing to 50,000) students in coding and enterprise; house a 400-seat auditorium, boardrooms, labs and workspaces and provide access to super-fast T4 broadband.
With poverty, of course, comes disease; and the damp, stuffy, cramped conditions of the Enterprise Houses are sure to provide the perfect hotbed.
The nonprofit enterprise, housed in the Time Warner Center and a few blocks from Marsalis' apartment, hosts two clubs and the Frederick P. Rose Hall, an exquisite space that has graced the world's best jazz artists.
The plague-stricken denizens of the Enterprise Houses will be happy enough with their generously subsidised Soylent Gruel, but in the outside world, citizens will be forced to take matters into their own (possibly leprous) hands.
In new, privately-owned Enterprise Houses Plus, fresh masses of "undeserving poor" will find themselves homed in cold, bare dormitories segregated by gender, and put to work cracking rocks, digging and then filling in holes, manning corporate twitter feeds, writing listicles for trendy, indeterminately oppositional news websites and other sorts of pointless, mind-numbing busywork.
And as social enterprises themselves, housing associations are perfectly placed to take the lead.
No one can be seen as first among equals in a town where the government owns all property and enterprises; where housing, education and health care are doled out free to about 3,400 permanent residents; and where most families live in uniformly drab apartment blocks on the west side of town.
During the great privatization of homes, state-owned enterprises sold housing units to their employees at below market rates.
