Hello World.

I bought my first house in 2015.

Even then, it felt like a long shot — something I barely pulled off with a public sector paycheck, some creativity, and a lot of elbow grease. But I did it.

Fast forward to today. I pulled up a chart from the U.S. Treasury showing the Housing Price Index stacked against Median Household Income. Then I marked two points: when I bought that house in 2015, and today.

I’m no statistician, but to me, it looks about three times harder now.

That hit me. Especially now, when I'm paying rent again with a baby on the way.

Like so many others, I thought maybe I could catch up through investing. I tried crypto — hoping I was early enough to catch some lift.

I wasn’t.

Then I had a new thought:
What if I just made a cryptocurrency?

That led to something else. Something weirder. Something better:
What if we used crypto like a co-op? Like a grant fund? Like a housing trust?
What if we used Web3 not to get rich, but to give back?

That’s how 501(meme)3 was born — part joke, part rebellion, and 100% a reflection of how broken it feels just trying to live right now.

This is a grassroots experiment.
A currency with a soul.
A community that laughs together, but builds for real.

A not-quite-nonprofit with a mission:
To make food and housing more accessible using the only tool we have left — each other.

I’m not promising airdrops. Or profits. Or a moonshot.

Just this:
A good idea.
A few memes.
A growing sense that we can do something different.

Crypto is the Wild West. I get the cynicism — I share some of it.
But here’s the thing I’ve learned:

You don’t defeat bad habits by eliminating them.
You drown them out by adopting better ones.

That’s the plan. Let’s build something better. No purchase necessary.