Tim McCormick

Possibilist, projector, researcher. Director @ORCoopHousing, @housingalterna. Books: @BuildersApology, @VillageBuildngs. tmccormick.eth. Alt acct of @tmccormick

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

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"No one ever steps in the same river twice."
—#Heraclitus https://t.co/PUsNkTmmn6

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@kenton_card @acomandon thank you!

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@EsquireRN https://t.co/sUQzlJGloP

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@ashwinram I have affinity for Rothko (eg your bg) - we both emigrated Europe to Portland at 10, then Yale, then NYC http://t.co/9KNGvp2L

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@jonathanmbach filed that story yet? repeating offer to comment on it. c/@DrMarisaZapata1 @taolagos

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@jonathanmbach I'm a longtime YIMBY, housing, & homelessness activist since 2015 when it emerged in SF, also Portland born & (part-)raised and here now, but don't plan to attend because of the rather unwelcoming behaviors of host org PNW. Happy to offer perspectives if you're interested.

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@jonathanmbach @lehnerjw you relate this like it's a bad thing https://t.co/F8xID6ISIZ

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@everydayeddie @YIMBYtown land-use holy Bible in @Powells urban studies section. I have a copy of same edition, from @Schalkenbach Foundation, 1935, among various others, but not with the dashing dust-jacket. https://t.co/f32TItWjAf #yimbyscriptures #yimbytown

[Eddie Siegel @everydayeddie]

Took a quick detour to Powell at @YIMBYtown and they have the holy bible on display in the urban studies section

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@ACMelendrez @cayimby @IDoTheThinking @RealChangeNews @YIMBYtown @yimbyaction @resnikoff @alex_lee @VrainBK @AsmCarrillo @Scott_Wiener for reference, California #SocialHousing Bill: 2021-22 #AB2053: https://t.co/mVyzY1yb56

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@ACMelendrez @cayimby @IDoTheThinking @RealChangeNews @YIMBYtown @yimbyaction @resnikoff Q2 for #YIMBYtown #SocialHousing panel: what precedents are there, or are you modeling/learning on, for mixed-income, cross-subsidizing housing in the US, such as #Section236 via which ~500k homes built 1968-73? (incl some bldgs still thriving in PDX). c/@alex_lee @VrainBK

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@babbar_official @alex_lee @AsmCarrillo @SantiagoAD53 @Scott_Wiener @wendycarrillo @oakclt an intriguing precedent/model, in ways more useful than say Vienna: 1968-72 #Section236 private-dev affordable rental. Unlike #Section235 focused on by @KeeangaYamahtta, 236 was fairly successful: 1/2 million homes, many eg in PDX thriving 50 yrs later. GAO judged it sustainable.

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@afahey @jessdbateman I heard, "ending exclusionary zoning"

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@YIMBYtown @FuturewiseWA @ECONorthwest @juliefahey @cayimby @aceckhouse on Q of ensuring housing diversity, & for houseless & lowest incomes, in #OHNA, I'm researching, writing (for @Sightline), & prototyping #mobiledwellings as potentially low-cost, fast, high-adaptability option. See draft in https://t.co/d9E2E2433x. c/@MobileDwellings #yimbytown

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@YIMBYtown @FuturewiseWA @ECONorthwest @juliefahey @cayimby @aceckhouse #OHNA Oregon Housing Needs Analysis has right goals, but risks building in basic, flawed ideas of CA #RHNA. Eg housing needn't be, usually isn't *built* to match income distribution; what matters is how affordable the housing *available* to you. https://t.co/AJJf9uqKcm #yimbytown

[YIMBYtown @YIMBYtown]

Go livestream the conversation about Oregon, Washington and California’s efforts to pass housing allocation policy, featuring @FuturewiseWA, @ECONorthwest, Representative @juliefahey and @cayimby’s @aceckhouse: https://t.co/IxBuU7hWwO #YIMBYtown

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@YIMBYtown @PNWelcome @StreetRoots @mkaiasand @mshannabrooks how do we show up, hear all voices, center on the affected [& look at new ideas, per @johnrmyers]? I've seen close-up ways PNW, SR, etc may or may not, eg from founding PNW's Homelessness committee 2020, & @3000_challenge in response to Kaia's #3000challenge call. #yimbytown

[YIMBYtown @YIMBYtown]

.@PNWelcome’s Trisha Patterson, @streetroots’ @mkaiasand, and @mshannabrooks talking about showing up for the unhoused, and Street Roots’ victory for getting toilets placed near camps #YIMBYtown

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@johnrmyers @jenny_schuetz "Showing up for All Our Neighbors: YIMBY and Houselessness" session at #yimbytown, moderated by @mshannabrooks. Kaia @mkaiasand @streetroots mentions @PDXStResponse, #3000Challenge, & controversial recent proposals & initiative in PDX (see background below). #houselessnessPDX

[HousingWiki @housing_wiki]

@thejeffbyrnes not so far discussed in #yimbytown panel, politics around PDX homelessness is highly conflicted & polarized. Measure passed by @colemerkel's @heretogetherOR coalition is widely controversial, targeted for major redirection by new ballot initiative filed by @people4portland #EDSS

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@johnrmyers @jenny_schuetz @yfreemark more on "Funded Inclusionary Housing", required % of low-income affordable homes in private development funded by govt, vs exacted: incl 2016 article from #AlanMallach in @Shelterforce https://t.co/t9EdG5519x #inclusionaryzoning #fundedinclusionary #fundedIZ #yimbytown

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@johnrmyers @jenny_schuetz @yfreemark @yimbyalliance @YIMBYtown @stephrouth @yimbyaction @PNWelcome @SonjaTrauss German #cooperativehousing discussed at #yimbytown: @Thiess_Buettner notes important of strong, long-established legal structures for it. Fyi In Oregon today, @orcoophousing is working on legal reforms, financing approaches, & developments on similar lines. c/@GarlynnWoodsong

[Jeff Byrnes 🚰 @thejeffbyrnes]

Caught a bit of the first session w/ @yfreemark, Konstantin Kholodin of DIW Berlin, Thiess Büttner of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, & John Myers of YIMBY Alliance, London, moderated by @jenny_schuetz of Brookings Institution. Lessons from abroad! #YIMBYtown

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@johnrmyers @jenny_schuetz @yfreemark "We built the biggest coalition for reform in England in planning ever seen…by being willing to look at new ideas & reach across party lines…coalition-building & willingness to look at new ideas is super important": @johnrmyers @yimbyalliance https://t.co/Evhffx0T9v #yimbytown

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@johnrmyers @jenny_schuetz @yfreemark "We built the biggest coalition for reform in England in planning ever seen…by being willing to look at new ideas & reach across party lines…coalition-building & willingness to look at new ideas is super important": @johnrmyers @yimbyalliance https://t.co/Evhffx0T9v #yimbytown

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@johnrmyers @jenny_schuetz at #InternationalYIMBY panel at #yimbytown,
@yfreemark notes France's key practice of what could be called "Funded #InclusionaryHousing": private developers get, & can plan on, universally vouchers available for low-income residents, to pay for required #socialhousing % of homes

[Tim McCormick @tmccormickx]

@johnrmyers @jenny_schuetz Q for fascinating #yimbytown panel "Winning Abundant Housing: UK, Germany, & France", esp for John: could emerging UK YIMBY-led #streetvotes / #hyperlocalzoning approach extend or evolve to, or converge w/, forms of #cooperativehousing? eg develop shared facilities, co-op homes?