Strong Towns a really efficient, immediate, & sensible way to address both disused parking & lack of affordable housing is to allow mobile/modular housing on underutilized parking, perhaps #interimuse . See sightline.org/2022/09/09/wer… c/Swyft Cities Mobile Dwelling project #parkingreform #MobileDwelling

Edward Cohen Adele Peters great projects. I'd suggest the biggest & most interesting possibility is for #InterimUse rapid adaptation of surface parking areas, eg with movable & #MobileDwelling . 100,000s of the poorest in US already live in parking places, just unpermittedly & precariously.

Kathleen Crowley UNCOMMITTED Andy Bales Office of Research, Boston University 'dwelling' (noun & verb) I like and tend to use, for one reason because of use & interesting discussion of it in one of my favorite essays, 'The Movable Dwelling and how it came to America' (1982) by #JBJackson books.google.com/books?id=cRddY…. #MovableDwelling #MobileDwelling

Tim McCormick Kathleen Crowley Andy Bales Office of Research, Boston University Dwelling (noun or verb!)

Tim McCormick UNCOMMITTED Andy Bales Office of Research, Boston University Living. Sometimes I’m dense and appreciate people educating me. But it seems to me that people living in public are doing that. Or trying to anyway.

Kathleen Crowley UNCOMMITTED Andy Bales Office of Research, Boston University What terms might you suggest as alternatives for 'camp' (noun, or verb) & 'camping' (noun, or present participle)? Usual rule of observing or asking what most-involved people use or how they self-describe seems helpful; & here are some reflections on histories & possibilies:

Andrew Rumbach there's a certain network or insurgency of people aiming to bring back #MobileHomeParks in various ways & coming from various angles With resident empowerment & choice, not lock-in; & imo preferably as types of cooperative. c/Mobile Dwelling project #MobileDwelling #VehicleResidency

house on the chassis—see #Mendocello house project tmccormick.org/projects/mendo… #Architecture #MobileDwelling #VehicleResidency #SelfBuild #DIYarchitecture (2/2)

Cohere SolaRoof (Richard Nelson) 'Own a piece of home without it owning you': intriguing🧵/ manifesto from Cohere, global co-living network initiative I'm following & slightly 'in', starting out from #Guatemala . In a way, key point is radical land redistribution—as with many revolutions. #mobiledwelling

Michael Andersen @[email protected] what if we're missing the forest for the trees, & could see the US's abundant free parking as solution path, vs problem; as near-'free' land reusable for lowest-cost housing, as in Sightline Institute ADU analyses. Might be reused fast, eg w/'campground' or #ParkingDwellingPermit models

“Fast furniture is more likely to get damaged when you move it around in a U-Haul,” said Sebastien Long Lodgeur. “That’s why we leave it inside the apartment and instead move people in and out.” story by Debra Kamin nytimes.com/2022/10/31/rea… #FastFurniture #MobileDwelling

UNCOMMITTED Urban Alchemy Homeless New Yorker Portland Mercury 🗞 marincountyconfidential what do you think of this agitprop angle? since generally nobody will even discuss the imo reasonable approach of a #ParkingDwellingPermit program, thinking of drafting an ordinance & permit, posting it on my #mobiledwelling & online, trying it out. See: housing.wiki/wiki/Parking_D…

Andrew Rumbach that Oregon bill #HB2046 ensuring cities allow of mfg & prefab housing, interestingly appears to have been written carefully to generally exclude vehicles and RVs, by only applying protections to units > 8ft 6in wide. I discussed in recent article @sightline on #mobiledwelling

'We Tried to Do Vanlife Right. It Broke Us Down.' by Chris Wright, Chris Wright, in Outside, Aug 8, 2019. outsideonline.com/outdoor-advent… #vehicleresidency #mobiledwelling

Josh J Architect Mark Hogan Alfred Twu Lisa Selin Davis Gordon Douglas (@[email protected]) San Francisco Chronicle Alex Schafran looking at it more radically & bottom-up, & given that I'm rn driving around & aerial-viewing to examine urban interstices for #mobiledwelling , I think, what if that residential & commercial parking were permittable & rentable for this; & perhaps by tenants ( #RentersADU )?

Anne Marshall Chalmers lizweil Abrahm Lustgarten Michael Kodas excellent story on wildfire wiping out California's low-cost mobile homes. thanks Anne Marshall Chalmers Inside Climate News, & team. I'd love to see follow-up story/forum on ways to address it. c/@pyrogeog Greg Pierce
C.J. Gabbe Kelly Turner Zachary Lamb #vehicleresidency #mobiledwelling

Greg Pierce mobile homes that are actually mobile, and places for them to go, could be a big help in reducing wildfire risk. To facilitate residents moving out of harm's way, both short-term and long-term. #mobiledwelling #vehicleresidency

Pretty amazing video of how Amish people move a house by hand youtu.be/Tc6IT5L3ZSk

Michael Andersen Xochitl ArgleBlargle by 'mobile housing' or #mobiledwelling I usually mean all kinds, including #vehicleresidency , RVs, Tiny House on Wheels ( #THOWs ), #manufacturedhousing , modular, demountable; even, interiors or components, cf #Boxshelves . Almost anything can be moved, it's a matter of how easily.

Michael Andersen new article on #mobiledwelling up at Sightline Institute. Thanks Ross Andersen & team for inviting, commissioning, and shepherding this. The path is my shepherd, I shall not want.