Households, Dependents & Continuing Care

NewVistas prevents homelessness, abandonment, and the relief office by structure rather than by program. Every participant is in exactly one of two states — an Enterprise Owner, holding one Enterprise LLC, or the dependent of exactly one Enterprise Owner — and there is no third state. So every person’s housing, food, coverage, and care is carried every quarter in a named, validated plan, and no one is ever without a responsible person.

One household, one responsible Enterprise Owner

A household of any composition — partners, roommates, extended family, single parents, the widowed — has exactly one Enterprise Owner responsible for its lease and custody. Others share costs only by agreement recorded in that Enterprise Owner’s Life Plan, which allocates cost, never title. Partners are never dependents of each other: each holds his or her own Business Enterprise, and no Business Enterprise is jointly owned or co-leased, so the death, departure, or failure of one partner never collapses the other’s livelihood. Adult dependents keep their full vote for the presidents who serve them.

Growing up: from contracts at twelve to independence by eighteen

From about twelve, a young person learns the system by doing contract work — as simple as mowing lawns — through the guardian’s Enterprise LLC, always written to deliverables, never by the hour, and never as anyone’s employee. The work is recorded as the youth’s own history, and by about sixteen most young people qualify for a part-time Business Enterprise of their own. That business takes up their own living costs line by line — usually clothing and food first — until it carries the whole. The community’s goal is that every young person who can reasonably operate a Business Enterprise is independent by eighteen; it is a goal, never a deadline or a penalty. A young Enterprise Owner who falters simply hands a line back to the guardian’s plan while the business is restored.

Care, disability, and aging

Ordinary care, mental-health and addiction support, disability, and care of the aging are all carried inside the dependency system, never by a bureau relief program. A person who cannot reasonably operate a Business Enterprise — through severe illness, disability, dementia, advanced age, or comparable incapacity — remains a dependent, and his or her validated care is carried in the responsible Enterprise Owner’s plans and delivered by specialized care Business Enterprises. No Enterprise Owner is required to give personal care: where care weighs on a household, the Life Plan prices professional care at market cost and the Business Enterprise Plan is enlarged to carry it. Support is never terminated when home care becomes unsustainable; the plan is revised instead.

Dependency is economic, never legal. It never reduces anyone’s legal capacity, vote, or rights; where someone must act for a dependent, the responsible Enterprise Owner seeks the authority the law of the land provides — guardianship, power of attorney, supported decision-making, or a trust. The community holds no guardianship of any person, and every duty the law places on a guardian, including any duty to report abuse or neglect, rests with the guardian.

When an Enterprise Owner dies

Death is absorbed without inheritance and without abandoning anyone. A surviving partner continues in his or her own Business Enterprise. For a dependent who cannot become independent, a continuing-care provision is established in advance, in the Enterprise Owner’s own plans: purpose-bound to that person’s validated care, sized for longevity and rising care costs, naming a lawful guardian or fiduciary, and passing no unused residual as family wealth. Bureau 21 underwrites it and Bureau 19 certifies it. The business itself passes only by license; only bounded personal memorabilia pass as inheritance.

Leaving a dependency

An adult dependent may leave at any time, subject to civil and guardianship law. Before anyone departs, the Life Plan records every option offered — to qualify as an Enterprise Owner, to remain a dependent of the guardian, or to remain a dependent of a suitable care Business Enterprise — and the responsible plan carries the person’s housing to the end of that quarter, so no one leaves without a home on the day a dependency ends.

Constitution, Chapter 11. Governed by Bureau 5, with Bureaus 19 and 21.