I was thinking of putting this under urban resilience, which it also is, but that mission seems geared towards top-down disaster planning.
Top-down disaster planning is definitely important. But what about plain survival?
It may surprise you to know that there are a number of livejournal communities dedicated to being homeless, being poor, and dumpster diving. Basically, these communities let people who have very few resources share their knowledge. As you say: trust the community.
Check it out:
The general page
http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=homelessSome specific examples:
http://community.livejournal.com/poor_skills/http://community.livejournal.com/dumpsterdiving/Those two are general, but many are local. There are specific communities dedicated to talking about how to live with little money in Chicago, NYC, and Philadelphia:
http://community.livejournal.com/chicago_cheap/http://community.livejournal.com/nycnobody/http://community.livejournal.com/frugal_philly/A lot of these communities may be made possible by the internet access provided by libraries. When libraries get closed, this gets harder. Which is just by way of saying that people are building infrastructure all the time, and it's hard to know how much any government-level cost-cutting measure is going to destroy community infrastructure that is, unbeknownst to budget folks, saving money.
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