#Houslets - Twitter Hashtag

over 4 years ago

@lukehklipp @Joe_Cortright let's imagine generally if % of parking spaces were rentable to live in. In US they're hugely oversupplied, usually free or barely priced, & pervasive, even in highest-value areas. Could host off-grid-able cottages fundable for only $100s/mo. See #ParkingDwellingPermit, #Houslets

Luke Klipp 🏳️‍🌈 @lukehklipp

over 4 years ago

What's wild is how heavily subsidized that parking must be. That's 300 square feet of space, renting for $71/month. Imagine if in College Station one could rent, say, a 900 square foot apartment next to campus for $213/month, let alone $1,000/month.

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick

over 4 years ago

@staydao @shpilsky also, I might well like or prefer to come in my own #mobiledwelling, like the #Houslets prototype I'm currently working on, #Mendocello. Might there be bring-your-own terms, rates, parking? c/@MobileDwellings

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick

almost 5 years ago

@GregVann @davewalker I can well imagine good other private uses of "right of way". Since 2012, exploring housing on parking (or other infill/available spaces) in ongoing project called 'houselets'/#houslets as pun on SF's parking-space #parklets, 10 yrs seeing how/why unimaginable/discussable to most

tmccormick's tweet photo. @GregVann @davewalker I can well imagine good other private uses of "right of way". Since 2012, exploring housing on parking (or other infill/available spaces) in ongoing project called 'houselets'/#houslets as pun on SF's parking-space #parklets, 10 yrs seeing how/why unimaginable/discussable to most https://t.co/gYHB3iBqDp

Tim McCormick @tmccormick

about 14 years ago

NYT on my "houselets" idea: "Most people see a parking space & back into it; Tim McCormick thinks, “I could live here” http://t.co/poguA56j

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick

about 5 years ago

congrats to @alexrivas & @coverbuild on $60M funding! Tech has come an amazing ways since 2014, when near zero housing startups existed, I wrote in @svbizjournal proposing; & began exhibiting prototype #Houslets light steel-frame, panelized, prefab modular https://t.co/1MGAGJSQZ4

tmccormick's tweet photo. congrats to @alexrivas & @coverbuild on $60M funding! Tech has come an amazing ways since 2014, when near zero housing startups existed, I wrote in @svbizjournal proposing; & began exhibiting prototype #Houslets light steel-frame, panelized, prefab modular https://t.co/1MGAGJSQZ4 https://t.co/Asiwx6BkIq

Alexis Rivas

@alexisxrivas

about 5 years ago

Today we announced a $60m Series B for @coverbuild led by @TheGigafund @cookie at @TechCrunch covered the news: https://t.co/IC74DfOQe2

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick

about 5 years ago

@LindsayJS the logic is in a way clear, yet the mainstream in most places is remarkably (if historically predictably) uninclined to embrace use of parking spaces for residences. I know from 10yrs suggesting that '#parklets' be extended to housing, ie #houslets (@houslets). c/@kettlemoraine

Lindsay Loves Cities

@LindsayJS

about 7 years ago

Every parking space is 200 sq feet, equal to a small studio apt. Imagine the things we could use a parking space for:

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick

over 6 years ago

@kettlemoraine @MikeLydon @Fred_Kent @ebkent @annargriff @rachelamonahan @BikePortland this is great, for leisure & hospitality, now can we be so adaptive & public-space-reclaiming as to also shelter+house the current thousands, coming thousands more, houseless in our cities? popup villages upbuilding to small homes could help many https://t.co/DrZGBjtD0L #houslets

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