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Michael Andersen
@andersem
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Believer, skeptic, humanist, typist & dad. Currently on Bluesky mostly, same handle. Views here: mine, all mine.
The Oregon Supreme Court just turned down an appeal of the state's 2022 parking reform, which all but eliminated urban & suburban parking mandates statewide.
It's done.
Law of the land! 🌲🏘️🍻
Neat little Census building permit visualization tool by Sid Kapur http://housingdata.app
"Marginally housed people like me know there is loads of available space in the world," Tim concludes. "Our main obstacle in this crisis isn’t lack of space. It’s our own shackled thinking. Paraphrasing Hamlet: we could be kings of infinite space, were it not that we dream poorly."
Many cities, including Portland, are in a bind trying to offer mass shelters to people who, for legitimate reasons, don't want to move into them.
Tim proposes the Wheeler House as an alternative.
3) Finally we have what Tim even more cheekily calls the "Wheeler House," an enclosed 6'x8' home that he says would cost $2,000 to build and sits on a car trailer.
"In roof-down position, it appears to be a small tool or storage trailer about the height and length of a sedan."
Tim's take on current affordable housing practices is all his own, but fascinating, I thought.
2) A version of what Tim cheekily calls his "Summer Pavilion": an 8'x10' grid frame built with street-sign pipe.
Tim spells out the specs, sharing three ideas for radically agile housing:
1) A "new starter home" that can move and evolve with its resident. Not a mass-produced "pod" shelter (pictured); instead, a very simple, adaptable, ownable structure that remains useful long-term.
7. Instead, starting one year from now, current plan is relocate the student body for 3 years to another high school a 19-minute drive (and a 56-minute bus journey) away
🤯
good thing schools don't face attendance or graduation challenges these days
