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Hi folks, We would like to invite you to join us for an organizing meeting for a new Oregon Cooperative Housing Network (OR CO-OP), with representatives from SquareOne Villages and Portland's Park Place co-op, and OR Co-Op organizers Garlynn Woodsong and myself. When:
Thursday, October 14th What time:
6-7:30pm What:
The topic of the meeting will be multi-stakeholder cooperatives for housing and equitable development. This meeting is not intended to be just a summit or a policy discussion.. Instead, it’s meant to build participation in a federated cooperative and/or local cooperatives within that federation, in order to bring real solutions to market for our housing and inequality crisis. Why:
We think the time for navel-gazing has passed, and it’s now time for action. Over the past two years, a number of us have identified cooperatives as one of the most promising paths forward, and one that has very little current housing market penetration in Oregon, especially within the Portland region. For the urbanists and developers especially, this is a critical point: currently, it basically does not pencil to bring a new-construction multifamily rental building to market as a profit-dependent endeavor in most areas of Portland (not to mention most of the balance of the west coast of the United States, and perhaps even more broadly than that); while such a development might pencil as a condominium (for-sale multifamily), the fear of construction defect liability has scared basically the entire local development industry away from this exit strategy. If you can’t build multifamily to rent, and you can’t built it to sell, then why would you build it? Yet, we’ve pinned the future of our region, here in Portland at least, on developing multifamily, essentially, so that we can grow up rather than out (and really, this should be the policy challenge for every city, everywhere). Cooperatives thus provide a path forward to continue the work towards achieving our regional vision (or the vision for every region), one with multiple co-benefits, including the opportunity of multi-stakeholder cooperatives to provide not just housing, but also economic opportunity with reduced risk. Where:
We will meet virtually, to reduce barriers to participation, and to allow the meeting to be recorded.
Join the Zoom Meeting here: https://dpz.zoom.us/j/96921960976?pwd=L0x4UFdtK1FrZmY3eTg4VzRYNUQ2Zz09 Meeting ID: 969 2196 0976
Passcode: 785636 One tap mobile:
+13017158592,,96921960976#,,,,*785636# US (Washington DC)
+13126266799,,96921960976#,,,,*785636# US (Chicago) Who:
This email is going / went out to multiple groups: The Portland subchapter of the Cascadia chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism The Portland Small Developers Alliance Oregon Cooperative Housing Network mailing list PDX Shelter Forum Village Collaborative
It is being cc’d to: Agenda:
6pm - 6:15pm: Introductions 6:15 - 6:45pm: Presentations 6:45 - 7:10pm: Breakout/topical discussions (we will decide in-meeting if we choose to break into small groups or remain in one group): Types of co-ops: • Existing (Park Place, C Street, etc) • Construction of new physical future • Conversion of existing multi family into co-ops • Incremental: tiny home villages, etc 7:10 - 7:25pm: Reconvene, group discussion 7:25 - 7:30pm: Wrap-up & next steps For more information:
Orcoop.org We look forward to seeing you next Thursday! Signed, OCHN co-organizers: Tim McCormick
Housing Alternatives Network
https://tmccormick.org Garlynn Woodsong
Woodsong Associates
https://www.woodsongassociates.com/ --
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Sorry, I just got this at 8:30 pm. Maybe you can fill me and others in that missed it.
On Thursday, October 14, 2021, 06:03:45 PM PDT, Tim McCormick <tmccormick@...> wrote:
Hi folks, We would like to invite you to join us for an organizing meeting for a new Oregon Cooperative Housing Network (OR CO-OP), with representatives from SquareOne Villages and Portland's Park Place co-op, and OR Co-Op organizers Garlynn Woodsong and myself. When:
Thursday, October 14th What time:
6-7:30pm What:
The topic of the meeting will be multi-stakeholder cooperatives for housing and equitable development. This meeting is not intended to be just a summit or a policy discussion.. Instead, it’s meant to build participation in a federated cooperative and/or local cooperatives within that federation, in order to bring real solutions to market for our housing and inequality crisis. Why:
We think the time for navel-gazing has passed, and it’s now time for action. Over the past two years, a number of us have identified cooperatives as one of the most promising paths forward, and one that has very little current housing market penetration in Oregon, especially within the Portland region. For the urbanists and developers especially, this is a critical point: currently, it basically does not pencil to bring a new-construction multifamily rental building to market as a profit-dependent endeavor in most areas of Portland (not to mention most of the balance of the west coast of the United States, and perhaps even more broadly than that); while such a development might pencil as a condominium (for-sale multifamily), the fear of construction defect liability has scared basically the entire local development industry away from this exit strategy. If you can’t build multifamily to rent, and you can’t built it to sell, then why would you build it? Yet, we’ve pinned the future of our region, here in Portland at least, on developing multifamily, essentially, so that we can grow up rather than out (and really, this should be the policy challenge for every city, everywhere). Cooperatives thus provide a path forward to continue the work towards achieving our regional vision (or the vision for every region), one with multiple co-benefits, including the opportunity of multi-stakeholder cooperatives to provide not just housing, but also economic opportunity with reduced risk. Where:
We will meet virtually, to reduce barriers to participation, and to allow the meeting to be recorded.
Join the Zoom Meeting here: https://dpz.zoom.us/j/96921960976?pwd=L0x4UFdtK1FrZmY3eTg4VzRYNUQ2Zz09 Meeting ID: 969 2196 0976
Passcode: 785636 One tap mobile:
+13017158592,,96921960976#,,,,*785636# US (Washington DC)
+13126266799,,96921960976#,,,,*785636# US (Chicago) Who:
This email is going / went out to multiple groups: The Portland subchapter of the Cascadia chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism The Portland Small Developers Alliance Oregon Cooperative Housing Network mailing list PDX Shelter Forum Village Collaborative
It is being cc’d to: Agenda:
6pm - 6:15pm: Introductions 6:15 - 6:45pm: Presentations 6:45 - 7:10pm: Breakout/topical discussions (we will decide in-meeting if we choose to break into small groups or remain in one group): Types of co-ops: • Existing (Park Place, C Street, etc) • Construction of new physical future • Conversion of existing multi family into co-ops • Incremental: tiny home villages, etc 7:10 - 7:25pm: Reconvene, group discussion 7:25 - 7:30pm: Wrap-up & next steps For more information:
Orcoop.org We look forward to seeing you next Thursday! Signed, OCHN co-organizers: Tim McCormick
Housing Alternatives Network
https://tmccormick.org Garlynn Woodsong
Woodsong Associates
https://www.woodsongassociates.com/ --
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Hi folks,We had a great organizing meeting this past Thursday for the Oregon Cooperative Housing Network (OCHN, or OR Co-Op), with people from the Portland Small Developers Alliance (PDX SDA), the Portland subchapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism (PDX CNU), and others.
For anyone who missed it, as well as for attendees who would like access to meeting materials, all materials are at or linked from Orcoop.org, and below: Meeting Recordings, chat, transcripts: - Video: on YouTube, or on Google Drive/downloadable.
- [on YouTube, you may want or need to increase the Quality setting. Click on the Settings / cogwheel icon, select Quality, then select 1080p]
- Audio only recording.
- Transcripts from Automatic captions and text chat: see at project site Orcoop.org.
Presentations: Finally, next steps include the formation of an organizing committee; if you or somebody you know is interested in joining this committee to help make this thing happen, please reply or otherwise let us know! We are also approaching existing groups/advocates doing related work.
Also, please let us know if you’re not quite THAT interested, but still want to be kept up to date on how this thing evolves, and of future opportunities to plug in. We have an open email announcements/discussion list you are welcome to join. cheers, ~Tim & Garlynn
Sorry, I just got this at 8:30 pm. Maybe you can fill me and others in that missed it.
On Thursday, October 14, 2021, 06:03:45 PM PDT, Tim McCormick < tmccormick@...> wrote:
Hi folks, We would like to invite you to join us for an organizing meeting for a new Oregon Cooperative Housing Network (OR CO-OP), with representatives from SquareOne Villages and Portland's Park Place co-op, and OR Co-Op organizers Garlynn Woodsong and myself. When:
Thursday, October 14th What time:
6-7:30pm What:
The topic of the meeting will be multi-stakeholder cooperatives for housing and equitable development. This meeting is not intended to be just a summit or a policy discussion.. Instead, it’s meant to build participation in a federated cooperative and/or local cooperatives within that federation, in order to bring real solutions to market for our housing and inequality crisis. Why:
We think the time for navel-gazing has passed, and it’s now time for action. Over the past two years, a number of us have identified cooperatives as one of the most promising paths forward, and one that has very little current housing market penetration in Oregon, especially within the Portland region. For the urbanists and developers especially, this is a critical point: currently, it basically does not pencil to bring a new-construction multifamily rental building to market as a profit-dependent endeavor in most areas of Portland (not to mention most of the balance of the west coast of the United States, and perhaps even more broadly than that); while such a development might pencil as a condominium (for-sale multifamily), the fear of construction defect liability has scared basically the entire local development industry away from this exit strategy. If you can’t build multifamily to rent, and you can’t built it to sell, then why would you build it? Yet, we’ve pinned the future of our region, here in Portland at least, on developing multifamily, essentially, so that we can grow up rather than out (and really, this should be the policy challenge for every city, everywhere). Cooperatives thus provide a path forward to continue the work towards achieving our regional vision (or the vision for every region), one with multiple co-benefits, including the opportunity of multi-stakeholder cooperatives to provide not just housing, but also economic opportunity with reduced risk. Where:
We will meet virtually, to reduce barriers to participation, and to allow the meeting to be recorded.
Join the Zoom Meeting here: https://dpz.zoom.us/j/96921960976?pwd=L0x4UFdtK1FrZmY3eTg4VzRYNUQ2Zz09 Meeting ID: 969 2196 0976
Passcode: 785636 One tap mobile:
+13017158592,,96921960976#,,,,*785636# US (Washington DC)
+13126266799,,96921960976#,,,,*785636# US (Chicago) Who:
This email is going / went out to multiple groups: The Portland subchapter of the Cascadia chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism The Portland Small Developers Alliance Oregon Cooperative Housing Network mailing list PDX Shelter Forum Village Collaborative
It is being cc’d to: Agenda:
6pm - 6:15pm: Introductions 6:15 - 6:45pm: Presentations 6:45 - 7:10pm: Breakout/topical discussions (we will decide in-meeting if we choose to break into small groups or remain in one group): Types of co-ops: • Existing (Park Place, C Street, etc) • Construction of new physical future • Conversion of existing multi family into co-ops • Incremental: tiny home villages, etc 7:10 - 7:25pm: Reconvene, group discussion 7:25 - 7:30pm: Wrap-up & next steps For more information:
Orcoop.org We look forward to seeing you next Thursday! Signed, OCHN co-organizers: Tim McCormick
Housing Alternatives Network
https://tmccormick.org Garlynn Woodsong
Woodsong Associates
https://www.woodsongassociates.com/ --
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This is great, in terms of being able to catch up with what's going on! I'm looking forward to viewing the video and other material. Thanks for collecting and sharing these, Tim.
Elise
Hi folks,We had a great organizing meeting this past Thursday for the Oregon Cooperative Housing Network (OCHN, or OR Co-Op), with people from the Portland Small Developers Alliance (PDX SDA), the Portland subchapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism (PDX CNU), and others.
For anyone who missed it, as well as for attendees who would like access to meeting materials, all materials are at or linked from Orcoop.org, and below: Meeting Recordings, chat, transcripts: - Video: on YouTube, or on Google Drive/downloadable.
- [on YouTube, you may want or need to increase the Quality setting. Click on the Settings / cogwheel icon, select Quality, then select 1080p]
- Audio only recording.
- Transcripts from Automatic captions and text chat: see at project site Orcoop.org.
Presentations: Finally, next steps include the formation of an organizing committee; if you or somebody you know is interested in joining this committee to help make this thing happen, please reply or otherwise let us know! We are also approaching existing groups/advocates doing related work.
Also, please let us know if you’re not quite THAT interested, but still want to be kept up to date on how this thing evolves, and of future opportunities to plug in. We have an open email announcements/discussion list you are welcome to join. cheers, ~Tim & Garlynn
Sorry, I just got this at 8:30 pm. Maybe you can fill me and others in that missed it.
On Thursday, October 14, 2021, 06:03:45 PM PDT, Tim McCormick < tmccormick@...> wrote:
Hi folks, We would like to invite you to join us for an organizing meeting for a new Oregon Cooperative Housing Network (OR CO-OP), with representatives from SquareOne Villages and Portland's Park Place co-op, and OR Co-Op organizers Garlynn Woodsong and myself. When:
Thursday, October 14th What time:
6-7:30pm What:
The topic of the meeting will be multi-stakeholder cooperatives for housing and equitable development. This meeting is not intended to be just a summit or a policy discussion.. Instead, it’s meant to build participation in a federated cooperative and/or local cooperatives within that federation, in order to bring real solutions to market for our housing and inequality crisis. Why:
We think the time for navel-gazing has passed, and it’s now time for action. Over the past two years, a number of us have identified cooperatives as one of the most promising paths forward, and one that has very little current housing market penetration in Oregon, especially within the Portland region. For the urbanists and developers especially, this is a critical point: currently, it basically does not pencil to bring a new-construction multifamily rental building to market as a profit-dependent endeavor in most areas of Portland (not to mention most of the balance of the west coast of the United States, and perhaps even more broadly than that); while such a development might pencil as a condominium (for-sale multifamily), the fear of construction defect liability has scared basically the entire local development industry away from this exit strategy. If you can’t build multifamily to rent, and you can’t built it to sell, then why would you build it? Yet, we’ve pinned the future of our region, here in Portland at least, on developing multifamily, essentially, so that we can grow up rather than out (and really, this should be the policy challenge for every city, everywhere). Cooperatives thus provide a path forward to continue the work towards achieving our regional vision (or the vision for every region), one with multiple co-benefits, including the opportunity of multi-stakeholder cooperatives to provide not just housing, but also economic opportunity with reduced risk. Where:
We will meet virtually, to reduce barriers to participation, and to allow the meeting to be recorded.
Join the Zoom Meeting here: https://dpz.zoom.us/j/96921960976?pwd=L0x4UFdtK1FrZmY3eTg4VzRYNUQ2Zz09 Meeting ID: 969 2196 0976
Passcode: 785636 One tap mobile:
+13017158592,,96921960976#,,,,*785636# US (Washington DC)
+13126266799,,96921960976#,,,,*785636# US (Chicago) Who:
This email is going / went out to multiple groups: The Portland subchapter of the Cascadia chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism The Portland Small Developers Alliance Oregon Cooperative Housing Network mailing list PDX Shelter Forum Village Collaborative
It is being cc’d to: Agenda:
6pm - 6:15pm: Introductions 6:15 - 6:45pm: Presentations 6:45 - 7:10pm: Breakout/topical discussions (we will decide in-meeting if we choose to break into small groups or remain in one group): Types of co-ops: • Existing (Park Place, C Street, etc) • Construction of new physical future • Conversion of existing multi family into co-ops • Incremental: tiny home villages, etc 7:10 - 7:25pm: Reconvene, group discussion 7:25 - 7:30pm: Wrap-up & next steps For more information:
Orcoop.org We look forward to seeing you next Thursday! Signed, OCHN co-organizers: Tim McCormick
Housing Alternatives Network
https://tmccormick.org Garlynn Woodsong
Woodsong Associates
https://www.woodsongassociates.com/ --
-- Elise Aymer
Co-founder, Critical Diversity Solutions Pronouns: She/her
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