Tim McCormick home

Housing advocate, researcher, writer, & project developer based in Portland, Cascadia, & Northern California. About me.

Featured/recent projects:

I'm considering buying this 8x12-foot, off-grid(able) cabin on trailer, and looking for places to site and live in it!

Alternatively or in addition, I'm looking for a residential garage space in which to build a smaller, car trailer, 5'W x 8'L, and possibly live in while doing that. If you have ideas for either angle, please contact me. I'm looking for minimal, low-cost situations, & open to work-exchange etc.

The cabin and car-trailer are two components or phases in my 'Mendocello' house project, protoyping a highly flexible, efficient home system for myself and others. See Mendocello house page for more info on the project and what I'm looking for.

"From Pods to PADs: Incremental Housing for Portland"

Notes and public testimony to Portland City Council, April 19, 2023, on the "Temporary Alternatives Shelter Sites" program. I propose a new initiative, "Portland PAD: Portable Affordable Dwelling" to work with and be funded with TASS & related programs, creating low-cost, rapid-deployable shelters designed to be upgradeable, expandable, & resiteable for types of 'permanent' housing.
Notes & testimony

"Vehicles as Housing, Housing as Vehicle"

Presentation at 2022 National Vehicle Residency Summit (Nov 18-19).
Video and presentation doc

"Housing from the bottom up."

invited presentation to Mental Health Alliance, Portland, Dec 14 2022. See slides.

File Directory

View of my tmccormick.org folder: contains all materials I intend to be public, or shared with others. So, in effect, a self-maintaining, more complete "web site" view of the online materials I host.

To see full list: click here to view in Google Drive, or scroll within the box below.

See also "About web site" for discussion of design goals & features, including this.