Called out by this one

These are so cool, let’s build one on every block of town cc @portlandneighborswelcome.org @strongtownspdx.bsky.social

I need to work on local housing policy for my mental health in a serious way lol

Are you new to Portland: Neighbors Welcome? Have you been a member for a while and are looking to get more involved? We would love to see you at our New Member Orientation on June 13th at 3:30PM at the P:NW office space! The orientation is right after our ice cream crawl (you should come too <3)

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨💘 Trans lives are precious and sacred. Queer people nationwide are under threat by fascists who want control and conformity. We will outlive them. We cannot be erased. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

You guys the submissions for the P:NW single stair design competition are so sick. ((award ceremony Thursday May 28 at Design Portland))

You're invited to the PNW DREAM Single-Stair Design Competition Awards Ceremony! We are so excited to celebrate the students' amazing work with our friends at @strongtownspdx.bsky.social. Join us at the Design Portland Space on May 28th at 5:30, and make sure to RSVP: pnwdreams.org/awards

Stayed up too late looking at old ads for lots in (Portland’s) Laurelhurst neighborhood. I think this is the first one they ran:

Seattle, Portland, SF etc all ought to be havens for trans people, immigrants, anyone threatened by fascism But we can’t protect our neighbors if we don’t have enough affordable homes for them to live in Building more housing is not optional

See the comments from two random NIMBYs that were quoted in this article about IE4A, which would legalize building apartments in Portland’s inner neighborhoods: www.kgw.com/article/news...

The owner-occupied detached single family home is the highest and best form of housing. People who own them are entitled to a fixed and unchanging neighborhood character that includes convenient free parking and freedom from proximity to apartments and renters, which are a form of pollution.

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Somehow got on some maga phone list and the messaging is uh very threatening

we’re going to remove height limits on posting -> policy pipeline while we’re at it

The beauty of charter reform: electing @drmitchpdx.bsky.social, god-tier left yimby shitposter and ludicrously good legislator

We recently ran a massive natural experiment on this. Covid 19 collapsed demand for urban housing in 2020, sending vacancy rates over 10% in new York and San Francisco for the first time in decades. Landlords desperate to fill their units slashed asking rents and loaded on concessions.

This is interesting because it challenges two widely held political assumptions: 1) that people love it when everything at the supermarket is at least $8.99 and 2) that the easiest way to win voters over is to go on TV every day and say that you need to build a big event space or you'll die.

an entire segment of ppl who otherwise couldn’t afford to buy a home have a chance to bc of a zoning change

I don’t want NYC to become a museum. It should be a living, breathing testament to the working people of our city.

Ran into the clown parade at Laurelhurst park and recognized a number of costumes from Ladd’s last weekend including the mustard person

instead of save the lloyd, why not use these final weeks to - rave the lloyd (throw a big rave in there) - grieve the lloyd (funeral procession thru town to the mall, rowdy public wake) - hotbox the lloyd (self explanatory) - purge the lloyd (do the purge, but just inside)

And! Let’s do it in conjunction with social housing, elevator reform, accessibility requirements, single stair, and social housing to make sure that the Inner Eastside is truly for ALL!

As Inner Eastside for All moves forward we have to fight hard to make sure we don’t allow neighborhood carve outs, apartments restricted only to corridors, or building heights that make real density impossible. Upzoning works but you have to go big!

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They’re saying it’s the funniest coalition anyone has ever seen

Today’s the day! See you at 5pm for a rally at city hall. Wear green! 💚🏘️‼️ portlandneighborswelcome.org/ie4a-resolut...

Many challenging things we need to do to build a city and a society where we’re fulfilling our obligation to house each other. Re-legalizing building apartments is the simplest thing on that list. It costs $0, will increase revenue, and makes everything else we need to do easier. Let’s get it done.

On Wednesday next week at 5pm, we’re rallying to support a resolution to accelerate the planning process for the Inner Eastside Area Planning Project, potentially delivering an Inner Eastside upzoning a year or more sooner than the current timeline for the project. But how did we get here? 🧵

Just realized that I’ve always thought of “spinning in their grave” as a spin along the horizontal plane, which obviously is nonsense

Portland *can* build affordable, beautiful housing that puts you in proximity to your friends, grocery stores, schools,work, etc. My resolution will empower us to do just that! Come to evening Council next week and show my fellow Councilors that we’re ready to take transformative steps in housing✨

portland city council will vote on a ~major~ resolution to allow more homes to be built through the entire central eastside a week from today. join @pnwelcome.bsky.social at a rally at city hall in support of @councilormorillo.bsky.social's Inner Eastside for All resolution, 4/15 at 5pm

On April 15, Portland City Council will consider a resolution focused on keeping the Inner Eastside Area Planning project moving forward. This is the resolution passed out of committee on March 12th (unanimously!) with huge support from our membership and coalition in the form of written testimony.

🫡 @ianmeisner.bsky.social

We're excited that we will be joined by special guest Bill Cunningham from Portland's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, who is the project lead for the Inner Eastside Area Planning Project! We would love it if you (yes, you specifically!) would join us <3

Hey Neighbors! Our next happy hour is Thursday April 2nd from 6-8PM at Migration Brewing on Williams (at the outdoor patio). That's this Thursday!

Councilor Morillo has been an incredible champion for housing justice! Us D3 folks are so lucky to be represented by someone who stands up for tenants, unhoused neighbors, and more homes for all ages, wages and stages of life in our close in neighborhoods. Please join me in donating if you can ❤️🏘️

The Anglospheres culture of homeownership is built on the idea of losers and winners in housing. Our coalition wants to break that binary. A lot of people seem more concerned with “their turn on top”.

This shit makes me viscerally angry as a renter. Amazing to see it spelled out by the literal organization for the position of renters can get fucked but the single family homes are the precious vessel of the Real American Family that will virtuously appreciate forever

We need lower cost elevators to make our vision of an affordable, accessible Inner Eastside possible. We highly recommend attending this webinar featuring Portland's own Cassie Wilson and Shane Boland!

Policymakers really need to let go of this idea that rental housing is intrinsically inferior and homeownership needs to be considered the normative default for everyone. The policies that flow from this view inevitably end up screwing over actually existing renters.

What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office? —60,000 new social housing units —15 express bus routes —Completion of city's full bike network —Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard —1000 new pedestrian streets —300 new hectares of parks

Sometimes it can be frustrating that Oregon’s land use system has so many specific requirements that are slowing down IE4A as a planning project, but our land use system also means we don’t have this type of unhinged local process for individual projects! SHOUTOUT TOM MCCALL!!

Bro do u even know how many posts ive seen

At the food cart pod w the @publicenterprise.bsky.social hat (inspired by @fischer.bsky.social who wore one of their shirts that I thought was sick last year)

Hey folks, we're hiring an Organizing Director! Location: Portland, OR Position Type: Full-time exempt at 32 hours Salary: $95,000 Benefits: $500 monthly healthcare stipend, generous PTO, flexible schedule, hybrid work options, professional development portlandneighborswelcome.org/hiring

We gotta destroy the Laurelhurst historic district first tho 😍

This cracked me up (quietly, because council chambers) because someone posts in the @pnwelcome.bsky.social slack about @drmitchpdx.bsky.social plugging IE4A in a different committee every few weeks

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