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In response to the re-development crisis that takes place in Willet Point and Flushing Meadow during the first phase and the second phase of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan, we propose developing a distributed interim community. This community would offer an alternative development as well as act as informal land use and economic framework for development for the neighborhood and empower the neighborhood to become a developer of its housing stock. The community facilitates construction permits and alternative mixed uses and densities to provide micro-loans by managing the break-up of large construction loans and subsidies.