Tim McCormick

time is running out on individuals who need housing also, actually even more so and faster because commonly used rhetoric signals to them they're even less wanted than others

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citizen legislative initiative, 💯.
Officials, representatives, media, where are you on this? I'd hope you're appropriately concerned, ready to take the necessary steps on this major public health, safety, and quality-of-life problem, but so far not hearing you
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citizen legislative initiative, 💯.
Officials, representatives, media, where are you on this? I'd hope you're appropriately concerned, ready to take the necessary steps on this major public health, safety, and quality-of-life problem, but so far not hearing you
bsky.app/profile/spok... #SHUTUPAct

this exchange illustrates ideas of #PriceOfAttention or #GiftOfAttention … consider the message sent by, or cost/demand level of, asking someone to read a book, or give their attention to anything. Time and attention are scarce personal assets, not generally yours to take
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what good ideas/practices are floating around now, perhaps not well-named, not considered plausible, outside #OvertonWindow, etc, that "everyone will have always been *for* this," years from now?
"In the deserts of the heart/
Let the healing fountain start" — #Auden
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what good ideas/practices are floating around now, perhaps not well-named, not considered plausible, outside #OvertonWindow, etc, that "everyone will have always been *for* this," years from now?
"In the deserts of the heart/
Let the healing fountain start" — #Auden
bsky.app/profile/danb... #booksky

btw, typo, meant to put 'advocative' #advocative — not a term in common use, seems, but I'm trying it out for a neutral, synoptic, descriptive term, i.e. #topos, for contexts e.g. where #AdvocacyJournalism is sometimes used, to which ofc people object.
#Toposcope
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link to the story?

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I mean, sole quoted source supporting story's claim. Did I read the story? oh ye of little faith… I'm told I'm somewhat notorious for having, seeming to have read, all the words, like all of the bill, legislation, meeting packet, study, in discussion; often eg at hearings it's apparent most haven't.

agree, I found this article really interesting, illuminating, helpful; applaud the deep dive into a perspective/position [owner's] that many people are prone to distrust/dismiss/ignore, plus very contrasting perspective from #Mamdani éminence green @ceaweaver.bsky.social
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is it great reporting, or great advocacy that's priors-aligned? Easy mistaken! [PDX Councilmember lauds local paper story which to me at a glance seems doubtful: eg no link to study it's based on; sole quoted source is v interested party; in paper often openly #advocactive]
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thanks, great pointer, had heard of but forgotten.
I'm for returning to faves, cores, in network ways.

Ahnert R, et al. The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities. Cambridge Univ Press, 2021. doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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"On all but a very few matters for short stretches in our lives, the utmost independence that we can exercise is to multiply the authorities to whom we give a friendly hearing."
—Walter Lippmann. Public Opinion, 1922
archive.org/details/in.e... reminded of this line I read long ago, just looked up

btw on concepts of 'framing' or "frame analysis", this thread prompted me to quick-gather canonical discussions/sources to an open topical entry docs.google.com/document/d/1.... "Surely we are here to turn what passes into something that endures?" as #Goethe said.
#Toposcope #Framing #FrameAnalysis

to me term/concept 'framing' usually suggests, not correct or incorrect, but particular lens or representation, sometimes motivated, conscious; sometimes not. Arguably, all we have are different framings of matters, no one of which alone is correct. As #WalterLippman said:
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I'd say core YIMBY intuition/drive has always had that, e.g. @sonjatrauss.bsky.social's views, but it, typically enough, steadily gets dichotomized to, *not* or opposite to that thing which it doesn't adhere to—vs synthesizing, incorporating, transcending it. Dichotomization…a needle in many an arm

I see, right. (tho I might doubt framing 'YIMBY' outside 'progressive' 😉). Also, there is a, I take a, view of #YIMBY movement as associated with, perhaps inclining to conflation with or capture by "free market" and #propertarian ideas, but transcending that, e.g. 'abundance' by any and all means

"the lights are flashing, my mind is spinning/
I feel like it is always the beginning/
Of another rhyme…"
—The #BeastieBoys, "Car Thief", from the epochal #PaulsBoutique LP, 1989
m.youtube.com/watch?v=MaUZ... #SongLyrics #SongSignal

how is the framing around housing politics not right, do you think? do you mean, article or conceps are not accurate, it's not the right way to think about it, or…?

so I suggest 'funded' can, should open door to a better way: open policy platforms (' #HousingScore' ?) to surface, incent, analyze, compare programs, find and prefer most effective. If such *isn't* done, policy choices tend to reflect power politics, fads, fallacies; vs public goals, interests. 5/5

lastly, suggesting better path: current #FundedInclusionary focuses on costly, new, large, high-end bldgs; while v likely, far more cost-effective alternatives exist. Eg incenting new ADUs or #CottageCluster, acquiring distressed assets, or #AffordabilityEasement (s). 4/5 bsky.app/profile/tmcc...

subsidizing private development by long-term tax breaks is v susceptible to political influence, oversight failure, & miscalibration making it non-[cost]effective. Eg in PDX, $100k's/unit spent may not incent new homes, serve needy households, address what really needed, or be enforced at all. 3/5

Conceptually/politically, it's v problematic to say owners must be compensated for requirements imposed. This is a longtime key legal + messaging goal of #propertarian interests, could challenge almost all regulations; which is why we've evolved legal tests for balancing this, e.g. #NollanDolan. 2/5

having coined 'Funded' #InclusionaryHousing (or Zoning), I've concerns on and follow-on ideas for Oregon #SB1521 legislating it. I grant poorly-done IZ or other mandates may be harmful, counterproductive. But requiring full 'funding' of them has many issues also
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Oregon’s New Path to Inclusionary Housing: Fully Funded and Flexible | Sightline Institute An environmental justice champion led the push to end counterproductive, unfunded mandates.

Yesterday, Oregon's legislature voted to ban underfunded inclusionary zoning from the Portland metro area.

It's a big turnaround, and I hope a path forward for other states too.

www.sightline.org/2026/03/05/o...

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

Americans appear to be now more likely to see compatriot's morality as lacking than are residents of any other nation. Are Americans uncommonly bad? logically no, in that they rate themselves as quite moral. They are uniquely polarized and condemnatory.
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

Americans appear to be now more likely to see compatriot's morality as lacking than are residents of any other nation. Are Americans uncommonly bad? logically no, in that they rate themselves as quite moral. They are uniquely polarized and condemnatory.
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...