Developing a system for highly affordable, ownable, starter, tiny houses; for backyard cottages, villages, cottage clusters. etc. @tmccormick @housingalterna
Portland, Oregon, USA
Joined November 2014
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New Starter Home retweeted
we could imagine Regenerative House: a progeny, of one initial + many future possible houses, that could grow on same base layer—a specified layout of foundation posts, connectors, services—a "house API". See idea in @NewStarterHome.
#RegenerativeHouse #RegenHouse #RegenHome
New Starter Home retweeted
how about a story on ways to reinvent the #starterhome; or a #NewStarterHome design/policy challenge, building on #LowRiseLA one & #LowRiseDesignLab [see metropolismag.com/viewpoints…] ? c/@marklamster @dancaroselli @Coodence @bruce_katz @bagrau @DianaBudds @NewStarterHomes
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typically astute @emilymbadger. have a story coming along similar lines.....
"The nation has a deepening shortage of housing. But, more specifically, there isn’t enough of this housing: small, no-frills homes that would give a family new to the country or a young couple with student debt a foothold to build equity."
nytimes.com/2022/09/25/upsho…
New Starter Home retweeted
Last year, @nbrhoodwrkshop & I estimated the minimum rent to create each of 7 newly legalized living options in PDX.
I'd spent half my 30s fighting to legalize 4plexes, But they were blown out of the water by one that pencils at $464/month: a backyard RV w/ utility hookups.
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"What I want," Tim writes, is for a home "to help me make the world my extended space, not to enclose more space privately for me."
ALT hree eclectically designed tiny houses on wheels sit around a courtyard covered by a sun shade, atop a large smooth concrete slab that features painted polka dots, chairs and tables.
New Starter Home retweeted
"And bans on movable homes specifically deny people having a longer-term or permanent home when their needs, wishes, and opportunities lead them to relocate."
Sometimes, mobility of one's dwelling is a path to *more* stability in one's life.
ALT A row of airstream trailers and wood-paneled tiny houses on wheels in a smooth, undeveloped lot. In the background, a pink sunset sets of several palm trees.
New Starter Home retweeted
"Just as other exclusionary zoning practices like minimum lot sizes force many people to pay for more land than they want or need, exclusion of smaller and movable homes forces many people to pay for more space and permanence than they want or need."
New Starter Home retweeted
This is a guest article by @tmccormick of @HousingAlterna & @vehicleresident. Though Tim & I don't always see eye to eye, he helped open mine to a blind spot I didn't know I had: the value, for some, of housing *mobility.*
It's haunted me since & I hope it haunts you too.
New Starter Home retweeted
For about $10,000, you can own it.
It can turn parking lots to villages, then back again.
It can go anywhere with you.
But our laws almost always ban the simple home on wheels.
Today Sightline asks: why?
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sightline.org/2022/09/09/wer…
New Starter Home retweeted
new article on #mobiledwelling up at @Sightline. Thanks @andersen & team for inviting, commissioning, and shepherding this. The path is my shepherd, I shall not want.
For about $10,000, you can own it.
It can turn parking lots to villages, then back again.
It can go anywhere with you.
But our laws almost always ban the simple home on wheels.
Today Sightline asks: why?
👀
sightline.org/2022/09/09/wer…
New Starter Home retweeted
on housing reform suggestion #5, "Normalize rolling homes," look for forthcoming article @Sightline on #mobiledwellings, 1st draft up now at mobiledwellings.housing.wiki; & further down, #NewStarterHomes proposal for city program of low-cost, movable cottages: newstarterhomes.housing.wiki…
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Good piece about how to reduce the cost of housing and thus the level of homelessness, by tackling well meant but excessive red tape. wweek.com/news/2022/04/13/po…
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@alfred_twu I cite your excellent concept & pun of #MissingSmall housing alfredtwu.medium.com/missing… in the punning #LevitateTown (#NewStarterHomes) proposal noted here. (btw, writing from a backyard in Berkeley, origin of #MissingMiddle concept by @OpticosDesign). I can has share? – at Berkeley, CA
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great points from Nolan Gray citing @OldUrbanist on restoring mass, popular housing forms. It's long overdue to question the urbanist crusade against detached or single-unit housing, & we do in projects #LevitateTown (New Starter Homes) bit.ly/levitatetown, & @BuildersApology – at Berkeley, CA
Lately I've been thinking a lot about how you get mass production of accessible, detached single-family housing, and I've been returning to this classix @OldUrbanist piece on lot sizes: oldurbanist.blogspot.com/201…
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Lately I've been thinking a lot about how you get mass production of accessible, detached single-family housing, and I've been returning to this classix @OldUrbanist piece on lot sizes: oldurbanist.blogspot.com/201… – at Salt Lake City, UT
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After considering a staggering total of 380 entries in four categories, we're thrilled to announce the winners of Low-Rise design challenge! Details on the winning entries, along with renderings and links to full submissions, can be found here:
lowrise.la/winners
New Starter Home retweeted
Thanks, @tmccormick for resurfacing that article. I had completely forgotten about it
that near-simultaneous March 2014 article by @timoreilly, "#LeanUrbanism", discussing Andres Duany's ideas of #PinkZones, & then new term #TacticalUrbanism, & how @knightfdn had picked these up: forbes.com/sites/oreillymedi…
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excellent, love to see it, share, help; researching exactly this, visiting sites, & advocating, developing projects such. See pitch & #NewStarterHomes program concept I just presented to Portland City Council, which has especially interesting opptys here: youtu.be/1hSSFvCSYFU
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initiatives on financing #accessorydwellings abound: appraisal methods; new HELOC, refi, construction, renovation loan products; shared equity eg @dwellerhomes, ubsidy/assistance programs. I track some at housing.wiki/wiki/Accessory_…, am looking to grow a pooled knowledgebase/network
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#NewStarterHomes aka LevitateTown (pun on Levittowns) began as my & collaborators' 2018 grant proposal for @meyermt affordable housing innovation program: tjm.org/wp-content/uploads/2…, living on in ways now incl advocacy for cottage ADUs/shelters in Portland cf #S2HC. c/@mp_on_housing
