The Floor
Which of these would you fix first in your town?
Four things everybody wants and no council can do at once. Pick the one that goes first.
Concluded from · Assessed from the stance that first means whichever one unblocks the others.
Runs while the room is still moving
1,844 people have taken a position.
Take a position and it opens — to you now, and to everybody when this closes.
The split is covered until you have taken a position, because on a question like this the room is not evidence about the world — it is what is being measured, and a number shown first would only tell you what the normal answer is. It opens to everybody when this closes, answered or not.
What people are weighing
Take a position to mark what weighed with you
- Housing takes the largest share of local incomeHousing
- Transport decides who can reach which jobsBuses and trains
- Schools take a decade to show a change
What settles this, and when it closes
This one has no answer. It has a room. Nothing in the world settles it — so when it closes, the floor says what it concludes, from a stated stance.
No closing date has been set. The floor closes it when the room has stopped moving.
What people said · 3
Every bubble carries the side its writer took.
Take a position above to add your view. You can read everyone else’s now.
Rosa D.@rosa_d· 9 Sept
Everything else on this list gets easier when people can afford to live near their work. Nothing else on it does that for the others.
Ruth E.@ruth_e· 9 Sept
Housing is the biggest bill and the slowest to move. Buses change who can take which job inside a year, on a budget the council already holds.
Femi A.@femi_a· 10 Sept
Everything here is downstream of whether the school is any good. The families who can leave over it are the ones you most need to stay.
