# Neighborhood

> Neighborhood connects private parcels through shared services, externalities, identity, and fate

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:real-estate-mortgage:neighborhood-infrastructure:neighborhood` |
| Family | Neighborhood & Infrastructure |
| Domain | Culture |
| Era | Institutional Age → Collective Age |
| Kind | place-or-property |
| Archetype | The Threshold |
| Claim layers | empirical, cultural_historical, synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory |

## What it is

A lived place formed by proximity, shared infrastructure, institutions, reputation, and social relationships.

## What it actually does

Concentrates amenities and burdens, shapes opportunity, and turns many parcel-level choices into collective outcomes.

## Why it exists

It exists because place is unique and immovable while law, capital, information, and human lives must still coordinate around it across time.

## System mechanics

- **Who uses it:** owner, occupant, buyer, seller, lender, investor, steward, regulator
- **Incentives:** access, certainty, control, value, continuity
- **Inputs:** place, people, records, rules, resources, time
- **Outputs:** rights, constraints, uses, relationships, consequences
- **Dependencies:** Land, Authority, Information, Capital, Time

## Archetypal reading

- **Essence:** Neighborhood connects private parcels through shared services, externalities, identity, and fate
- **Gift:** Clarity about neighborhood makes a hidden allocation of place, time, authority, value, or risk available for deliberate choice.
- **Wound / Shadow:** When neighborhood is treated as neutral or inevitable, its costs can be shifted to people who hold less information, authority, liquidity, or mobility.
- **Failure mode:** The failure mode appears when neighborhood is stale, opaque, mispriced, misrecorded, overextended, or applied outside the conditions that made it useful.

## Lenses

- **Personal:** Notice where neighborhood appears as a structure in your own commitments: what is held, promised, priced, protected, excluded, or deferred?
- **Business:** Neighborhood reveals a handoff among information, authority, incentives, operating work, and capital. Make the owner of each handoff explicit.
- **Financial:** Neighborhood changes the timing, priority, comparability, liquidity, or distribution of cash flow and risk.
- **Property:** Neighborhood changes how a physical place can be used, valued, financed, transferred, occupied, maintained, or reclaimed.
- **Community:** Neighborhood can create benefits inside one parcel while exporting costs or opportunity to neighbors, institutions, or future residents.

## Divination

The Threshold enters the reading through Neighborhood. The issue is not only what is visible; it is which map of ownership, time, risk, authority, or belonging currently governs the situation.

**Question:** What relationships become visible when Neighborhood is treated as a place rather than only an asset?

**Guidance:** Walk the physical, legal, financial, ecological, and human maps separately before recombining them.

## Game function

Occupies spatial capacity and generates use, cost, externality, identity, or cash flow. Initiative 1.

## Relationships

- **Scarcity amplifies Neighborhood.** Scarcity amplifies Neighborhood through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Neighborhood conflicts with Externality.** Neighborhood conflicts with Externality through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Neighborhood conflicts with Henry George.** Neighborhood conflicts with Henry George through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Housing Segregation externalizes to Neighborhood.** Housing Segregation externalizes to Neighborhood through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.

## Oppositions

- Use Value versus Exchange Value
- Speed versus Diligence

## Historical lineage and regulatory context

Read Neighborhood through the lineage of Neighborhood & Infrastructure: earlier customary or local arrangements became recorded, standardized, financed, regulated, digitized, or contested over time.

Rules vary by jurisdiction and transaction. Use the cited primary sources as starting points and verify current local law, program guides, contracts, and professional standards before operational use.

## Visual direction

Text-free rounded-square enamel artifact for Neighborhood: a tactile architectural environment rendered in deep enamel, stone, vegetation, water, and fine metal lines; vitreous midnight enamel, blackened steel, warm brass, copper accents, mortgage-paper cream, deep green, slate, and sky blue.

## Engine output / Sentinel handoff

The generative interpretation above is preserved as Engine Output. Sentinel factors: jurisdiction-specific rules, factual uncertainty. These factors request contextual review; they do not delete or silently rewrite the candidate.

## Research / provenance

- [Energy Codes 101](https://www.energy.gov/cmei/buildings/articles/energy-codes-101-what-are-they-and-what-does-role) — U.S. Department of Energy; model codes, adoption, enforcement, building systems.
- [Housing Discrimination Under the Fair Housing Act](https://www.hud.gov/helping-americans/fair-housing-act-overview) — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; housing discrimination and protected classes.
