Mandate
Land is a limited resource, and how it is owned and distributed decides what kind of future is possible. SCAM exists to remove land and buildings from speculation and make them available to projects that benefit many people instead of a few. Working with owners and users, we take the debt off the ground and secure socially and culturally necessary workplaces for the long term.
The name is a joke we intend to keep answering for. We use the market's instruments fluently because that is the only language it processes — and everything we learn is published: every deal has a public record, every tenant knows the terms before we do, and no one here is paid on an uplift.
Stages
- Stage ISightingA building, a lease problem, a deadline. Two weeks to a view, produced with the people already inside.
- Stage IIInterruptionOption, pre-emption or direct purchase — whatever stops the sale to the next arbitrage.
- Stage IIIDe-debtingThe ground is cleared of debt: gift, bequest, cooperative shares, patient capital. Never a bridge to a flip.
- Stage IVSecuring useLong or hereditary lease, use and volume written into the plan, rent set against use and not market.
- Stage VSelf-administrationUsers govern, maintain and repair what they hold, with legal and contractual support from us.
- Stage VIStewardshipTitle transferred into a foundation, cooperative or land trust. There is no exit; there is a handover.
Terms for users and owners
Rent against use. Governance yours. Repair shared. No clause that prices you out of your own success.
Gift, bequest, sale at use value, or a lease that outlives you. We will not resell what you hand over.
Fixed fees, published accounts, no carry. Surplus buys the next building out of the market.