[sudo-discuss] [Shelter] Tiny houses made for homeless in West Oak

Tue Nov 4 12:44:29 PST 2014

Totally in to take a crack at one of these for a weekend or two!  Let's
organize!

On Tuesday, November 4, 2014, <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:

>  whoa spaced out there...yeah it's been a while!  early DEC sound good?
> I've been doing alot of scheming but near zero construction.  I think it'd
> be cool to actually build something, like a 4'x4'x8' sleeping/storage
> module simple enough that 5-10 people could make a prototype in a weekend.
>
>
>
>
> On 2014-11-04 12:06, Cris Shirley wrote:
>
>  Hello Tiny House Crew!
>
> What's the latest on the Tiny House Caucus and Shelter planning for an
> East Bay Tiny House village/trailer park.
>
> I'm looking to get a tiny house soon and want to see where others are at
> and if we have any movement that I've missed out on over the summer.
>
> I'd love to get a meeting together if others are interested.  Looks like
> the East Bay Tiny House meetup group has one scheduled for December 21st,
> but another one sooner and less in conflict with holiday time would be
> great too!
>
> Best,
>
>  Cris Shirley
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol at gaskill.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','hol at gaskill.com');>> wrote:
>
>> we had a meeting maybe 2 months ago RE building a fleet of trailerable
>> tiny homes, probably overdue for another.
>>
>> Here is a list set up for discussion of tiny homes, including
>> construction, social justice / housing, property search, all aspects of the
>> discussion: https://tentacle.net/mailman/listinfo/shelter  however there
>> hasn't been that much traffic yet.  Seems like we should start hashing out
>> some details and getting people organized a bit into whatever aspects of
>> the tiny home movement they are most interested in hacking on.
>>
>> just made a pad with the minutes from the first and so far only meeting
>> that i know of - https://pad.riseup.net/p/TinyHomeCaucus feel free to
>> just flesh out the minutes and add your thoughts wherever as it's just a
>> loose list of topics.
>>
>> I should have some open bandwidth in the next few weeks - anyone for
>> meeting up to discuss?  Last meeting was at a bar, would propose to do same
>> for next.
>>
>> cheers,
>> hol
>>
>> Mar 6, 2014 10:00:42 PM, owens.marcus at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','owens.marcus at gmail.com');> wrote:
>> Hey all- I think this topic is super important given the gentrification
>> and housing crisis in our area, the increasing eviction of encampments such
>> as at the recent clearing of the camp at the southend of lake merritt
>> around the convention center, etc. I think there's also a lot of potential
>> to go beyond the sculptural practice of this guys work given organizing
>> networks and capacities of a place like sudo, not to mention the temperate
>> climate of the bay area. Could this conversation be worthy of some sort of
>> "Right to the City/Hack the City" working group? Would love to connecting
>> with others interested in developing this conversation..
>>
>> >a priori, a few potentially relevant precedents from the arch/design
>> world:
>> >
>> >Materials:
>> >Superuse Studios: cataloging waste materials from industrial ecologies
>> to be used for building projects.
>> http://superuse-studios.com/index.php/category/platforms/
>> >
>> >Construction:
>> >Architect Teddy Cruz has been working on developing frameworks for safe
>> informal/DIY housing in Tijuana/San Diego.
>>
>> http://www.california-architects.com/en/estudio/projects-3/Manufactured_Sites-4453
>> >
>> >Landscape/Site:
>>
>> >Urban Code: UC berkeley project to catalog and network interstitial
>> city-owned land in SF.http://nicholas.demonchaux.com/Work/local-code
>> >
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >m
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Vicky Knox vknoxsironi at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','vknoxsironi at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>> >
>>
>> >Heh glad this thread is so popular! Any response yet from this guy? On a
>> related note, I'm part of a listserv* where talk of tiny houses has been
>> really hot. Let me know if you want access.
>> >
>>
>> >
>> >
>> *Spaghetti Night. It is a great portal into (one of) the Berkeley
>> co-op/weirdo universe(s).
>> >
>> >
>> >2014-03-03 10:06 GMT-08:00 Hol Gaskill hol at gaskill.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','hol at gaskill.com');>>:
>>
>> >
>>
>> >hah the look on his face must've been priceless!  i was scheming on said
>> conestoga wagon, decided to get a few flatbeds under my belt first.
>> hopefully have something to report on this month!
>>
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> hol
>>
>> on Mar 02, 2014, Gabrielle Silverman gabbywingnut at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gabbywingnut at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>> >
>>
>> >
>> Hey it's definitely real, I know somebody who got one of the tiny houses.
>>
>> Also on the "what if... occupy" tip I was once involved with a community
>> garden in the south bronx that kept getting bulldozed and rebuilt over and
>> over. Kicking off one of the re-occupations we built a little cassita in
>> pieces in another garden around the corner and then carried it all over and
>> screwed it together one night to announce the rebirth of the encampment.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best moment was dude from the city the first morning talking into his
>> cell phone: "They have a house. I repeat a HOUSE. They're more organized
>> than we thought they were..."
>>
>> gabby
>>
>> On Mar 2, 2014 5:54 PM, "Chris Bee" hotelcompany at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','hotelcompany at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>> >
>>
>> >
>>
>> I'm not calling shenanigans, but...I haven't seen any of these around,
>> and I spend a lot of time in WSO. Should I call that number and volunteer
>> my services? Assuming the article's legit and not just a puff piece, this
>> sounds like a project that sudo should be working with.
>> >
>>
>>
>> >Even if it's BS, I recall someone- quite possibly from sudo- mentioning
>> a bike trailer/Conestoga wagon type thing that sounded pretty cool. I don't
>> remember whether they built it or were planning to build it...anyone?
>> >
>>
>>
>> -chrisbee
>>
>> >_______________________________________________
>> > sudo-discuss mailing list
>> > sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org');>
>> > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> >_______________________________________________
>> >sudo-discuss mailing list
>> >sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org');>
>> >
>>
>> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>>
>> >_______________________________________________
>> >
>> sudo-discuss mailing list
>> >
>> sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org');>
>> >
>> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>> >
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >--
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Shelter mailing list
>> Shelter at tentacle.net
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Shelter at tentacle.net');>
>> https://tentacle.net/mailman/listinfo/shelter
>
>

-- 
Cris Shirley
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/attachments/20141104/940e43c2/attachment.html>