Village Buildings

community-developed, open, publicly-written book exploring radical & low-cost "bottom-up" housing strategies, from camps to villages to co-ops. by @tmccormick

[Price Center @ USC @USCPriceCSI]

At the top of many researchers' minds is the impact the #COVID19 pandemic has had on the housing market. To comment on this, Dr. @GaryDeanPainter provided insight on @NPR's @Marketplace in, "Foreclosures are at a record low…for now." Take a listen: https://t.co/rcCXuEunzF

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@UCLpress @JFLenhard @MaxCamCentre @DeirdreMcClosk @gkiely @UChicagoPress @OAPENbooks @SN_OAbooks @_ChristinaEmery @ArchitectureMPS @geoloss @VillageBuildngs Johan & UCLpress, btw here's another, agile-developed, book project proposal, specifically regarding homelessness: c/@mattkahn1966

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@UCLpress @JFLenhard @MaxCamCentre @DeirdreMcClosk @gkiely @UChicagoPress @OAPENbooks @SN_OAbooks @_ChristinaEmery @ArchitectureMPS @geoloss excellent. I've been exploring such b/c working on experimental open book project @VillageBuildngs. As a un(dis?)affiliated & unestablished researcher/writer/organizer, I've little expectation of publisher support. So I've proposed a prefigurative, co-op community funded approach

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@JFLenhard @MaxCamCentre @DeirdreMcClosk @gkiely @UChicagoPress @OAPENbooks @SN_OAbooks @_ChristinaEmery or @UCLpress, Housing Critical Futures series. Editors: Graham Cairns @ArchitectureMPS and Georgios Artopoulos @geoloss https://t.co/kBLz5e6AH6

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@JFLenhard @MaxCamCentre @DeirdreMcClosk "Ideas are the dark matter of history."
- Deirdre N. McCloskey, Bettering Humanomics, 2021.
I have to wonder, if/how in 2021 we can achieve better, more human & equitable #bookonomics & idea dissemination than $30 for 114 page book, @gkiely @UChicagoPress.
https://t.co/shrqRgzAdj

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@NeilMGong @ezraklein @jformanjr @cshea4 @MikeMadden @AdamBKushner @Sq1_Villages @LIHIhousing @CityofSeattle @cherring_soc @VillageBuildngs I suppose one reassessment this leads to is, better to consider the modes as a pattern set, rather than typology, recognizing that they may apply severally in mixed degrees in a particular response or built form.

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@NeilMGong @ezraklein @jformanjr @cshea4 @MikeMadden @AdamBKushner @Sq1_Villages @LIHIhousing @CityofSeattle @cherring_soc @VillageBuildngs It strikes me that ruling someone chronic [homeless] needing PSH is rather like the pharma-industrial complex finding ways to create lifelong customers for psychoactive drugs. Might be the helpful & appropriate outcome, but also might not.

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@NeilMGong @ezraklein @jformanjr @cshea4 @MikeMadden @AdamBKushner @Sq1_Villages @LIHIhousing @CityofSeattle @cherring_soc @VillageBuildngs I might, even less supportingly or sportingly, in ways consider permanent supportive housing as possibly mode 1, carceral or exploitation response, in my typology..

[neil gong @NeilMGong]

@tmccormick @ezraklein @jformanjr @cshea4 @MikeMadden @AdamBKushner @Sq1_Villages @LIHIhousing @CityofSeattle @cherring_soc @VillageBuildngs yes, I think PSH can range from an assimilation response to a containment response, depending on how its deployed

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@NeilMGong @ezraklein @jformanjr @cshea4 @MikeMadden @AdamBKushner @Sq1_Villages @LIHIhousing @CityofSeattle @cherring_soc @VillageBuildngs while I'd observe such construction of clients as beyond transformation [also?] in concepts of chronic homelessness and responses like "permanent supportive housing" which I've been considering a mode 4 'assimilation' response. This prompts me to reconsider my classification.

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@NeilMGong @ezraklein @jformanjr @cshea4 @MikeMadden @AdamBKushner @Sq1_Villages @LIHIhousing @CityofSeattle @cherring_soc @VillageBuildngs a nuance or complication I already note from comparing your paper & my @VillageBuildngs hypothesized 4-part typology of peripheral housing: you observe "'tolerant containment' is linked to limited therapeutic capacity and the construction of clients as beyond transformation"...

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@NeilMGong @ezraklein @jformanjr @cshea4 @MikeMadden @AdamBKushner @Sq1_Villages @LIHIhousing @CityofSeattle I suggest typology of 4 modes of peripheral housing, extending/critiquing eg @cherring_soc's: with #2 "ambivalent containment" like "tolerant containment"; #3 'assimilation' like your implied full investment; #4 "positive marginality," maybe Sand Point, or better @Sq1_Villages

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@NeilMGong @ezraklein @jformanjr @cshea4 @MikeMadden @AdamBKushner I'd say there's been a range of such alternative shelter/housing approaches in Seattle, & US, extending to #permanentvillages like #QuixoteVillage Olympia, @Sq1_Villages Eugene, @LIHIhousing's #SandPointCottageCommunity on leased @CityofSeattle land: https://t.co/o3n8waFn86

[neil gong @NeilMGong]

@tmccormick @ezraklein @jformanjr @cshea4 @MikeMadden @AdamBKushner thanks Tim! I realize now that sentence lacks nuance--I've heard good things about villages in the Pacific Northwest, so it's unfair to make a direct analogy to LA's (barely) tolerated camps. More the general point of another city respecting rights but under-investing

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@NeilMGong @ezraklein @jformanjr thanks for good article. One Q, which sites in SEA & LA do you mean when you note"Seattle’s city-sanctioned homeless villages resemble those in LA" as cases of '#tolerantcontainment'? (links to [Finkes 2019] on Seattle https://t.co/rmVihjpsG1) c/@cshea4 @MikeMadden @AdamBKushner

[neil gong @NeilMGong]

I call this "tolerant containment": the selective decriminalization and spatially specific acceptance of so-called deviance.

This tolerance may look like progress, but without resources, it can descend into abandonment.

https://t.co/wL3EJVVB4K

[neil gong @NeilMGong]

Police and prison abolitionists envision a world where punitive institutions are eventually replaced with robust community services and "root cause" solutions.

But what if we get the defunding and decriminalization, but not the reinvestment?

CA might be headed down this path.

[neil gong @NeilMGong]

Why do Californians have the right to be homeless, but not the right to housing? To possess drugs, but not to rehab?

In @washingtonpost, I discuss the lessons of CA's ugly political compromise between left civil liberties + right wing fiscal policy

https://t.co/h29v8Yau7u

[Price Center @ USC @USCPriceCSI]

The @BedrosianBook Podcast invited @GaryDeanPainter, @ManMetUni's Dr. Christopher Fox and Dr. Susan Baines to talk about Social Impact Bonds & their new work in #SIB2.

Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/HkMPAi1Lm4

@USCPrice @MMUPolicyEval

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@christyconklin @kiangoh @mitpress @thenewpress looks very interesting, if perhaps saddening or elegaic. My current main (book) project might plausibly be called, if I might riff on it, The Atlas of Emerging Places: Our Margins and Potentials. (actual working title, @VillageBuildngs). c/ @mattkahn1966