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Michael Andersen
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Believer, skeptic, humanist, typist & dad. Currently on Bluesky mostly, same handle. Views here: mine, all mine.
@getalifemike dang, thanks
Here's our account of how it's been playing out around the state https://www.sightline.org/2023/06/30/parking-mandates-are-vanishing-across-oregon/
Here's Sightline's coverage of the package when it passed https://www.sightline.org/2022/07/22/oregon-just-slashed-parking-mandates-5-things-that-might-happen-next/
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! 🌲🏘️🍻
I've got an op-ed in @OregonLive today making the case for Portland to fully fund its inclusionary housing program, which is:
- currently underfunded & malfunctioning
- cost-efficient & effective when fully funded
- well within our means to fund fully https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2024/01/opinion-how-portlands-inclusionary-housing-program-can-deliver-on-its-affordable-housing-promise.html
- currently underfunded & malfunctioning
- cost-efficient & effective when fully funded
- well within our means to fund fully https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2024/01/opinion-how-portlands-inclusionary-housing-program-can-deliver-on-its-affordable-housing-promise.html
Opinion: How Portland’s inclusionary housing program can deliver on its affordable housing promise
Portland's inclusionary housing program has helped increase the number of affordable units, particularly in the central city, writes Michael Andersen, who covers housing for Sightline Institute. But local leaders should make a few changes to ensure that the program is efficiently spurring as much building as the program can produce.
My employer, a regional sustainability think tank for the Pacific Northwest with 20 staff, is hiring a full-time press & social media person.
Pay is $58-67k plus excellent benefits like unconditional 10% retirement, 4 weeks paid vacation, lots of zoom calls with me & more. Remote with annual gatherings & a small office-space stipend.
Looking for someone with at least 2-4 years in communications or digital marketing. https://www.sightline.org/about/careers/
Careers | Sightline Institute
Sightline is Cascadia’s sustainability think tank. We aim to set the region’s long-term agenda by defining the region’s largest sustainability challenges and describing the most effective solutions for meeting them. We believe true sustainability exists at the intersection of environmental health and social justice.
Great @nerd4cities video about Houston's ups & downs.
New to me was Houston's dramatic underrepresentation on its regional transportation planning agency. Helps explain the city's split personality as urban but auto-oriented. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fMTaNYYvwE
You're Wrong About Houston and Here's Why
"Reformers waged a deliberate war on multifamily housing in the earliest decades of the twentieth century. They largely won it." https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/10/18/early-zoning-and-the-war-on-multifamily-housing
@BenRossTransit Not sure how it works but I think each unit counts as 1, including multifamily units of all sorts.