Working Family Blocks
Working families, retired couples and young renters on older blocks, where some households are short on hours and others have hours nobody asks for.
Who lives here
Read on the street, not on a spreadsheet.
Housing here comes in several shapes.
People here do all kinds of work. Office and administrative jobs are the largest group, followed by sales workers, managers, construction workers, and cooks and servers.
For an hour that belongs to them. Working parents here often have their evenings spoken for by school and dinner, so an invitation with a clear end time is far easier to accept.
A neighbor you might meet
Invented, so no one is a case studyA few years into renting a house on the block, raising two school-age kids on one paycheck from an office job.
Where it is cracking
Signs, not proof of anythingYou cannot know the reason from the sidewalk.
A sample from the guide
Three pieces of the full textThe rest comes with the guide.
What you'll hear at the door
Oh, we're good. Thank you, though.
We're good, thanks
Take the no kindly and don't push. Another month, ask about something different.
What tends to backfire
Picturing only one kind of neighbor
You picture a family with kids and build every plan around them. The retired couple never gets asked, the young renter assumes it isn't meant for him, and the parents get a weeknight invitation that runs past bedtime.
The neighbor next door might be a tired parent, a retired couple or someone young and new, and the right hour to offer is different for each.
the guide
What to do this week, what to say, and why the news is good on this particular street.
The full guide carries the four first actions, three real conversation scenarios with the notes underneath each line, a story worth telling here, and the Gospel written into what this street is actually carrying. It is free, and it opens in the browser.
Where to next
Young renters living alone, parents raising kids on their own, and owner couples who've stayed for years, most of them a short drive from work.
Longtime owners, working families and people living alone on streets of detached houses, most of them used to handling things themselves.
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