Tim McCormick home

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

Featured/recent projects:

[article for Sightline Institute, September 2023]

A case for agile, self-build and bottom-up options to unlock housing choice … by many means necessary.

Mendocello house update: built "Summer Pavilion" workspace, working on Mendoviola car-trailer micro-dwelling

Part of 'Mendocello' house project, protoyping a highly flexible, efficient home system for myself and others. See Mendocello house page for more info.

"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.