matt tuckerbaum
@mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social
Portland | housing | urbanism | climate | liberalism that builds | liberation & justice for all
Signing out for a bit - merry christmas to all who celebrate!
December 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Signing out for a bit - merry christmas to all who celebrate!
I have no desire to put up with this anymore.
We can have someone who’s at least as good on housing and not garbage at literally everything else.
We need such an overhaul of the Democratic Party in Oregon.
We can have someone who’s at least as good on housing and not garbage at literally everything else.
We need such an overhaul of the Democratic Party in Oregon.
Cutting property taxes for Oregonians affected by wildfires. Canceling planned freeway tolls. Pausing local new taxes in the Portland area. We have to keep going to make life more affordable for Oregonians.
December 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I have no desire to put up with this anymore.
We can have someone who’s at least as good on housing and not garbage at literally everything else.
We need such an overhaul of the Democratic Party in Oregon.
We can have someone who’s at least as good on housing and not garbage at literally everything else.
We need such an overhaul of the Democratic Party in Oregon.
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portland’s residential infill project was a huge step towards ending exclusionary zoning but middle housing improvements are moving so fast in other cities that we’re starting to look conservative in comparison
Seattle Council Approves Eight-Unit Apartment Buildings Everywhere - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Maybe calling them “stacked flats,” rather than “apartments,” was a stroke of genius. On Tuesday, the…
publicola.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
portland’s residential infill project was a huge step towards ending exclusionary zoning but middle housing improvements are moving so fast in other cities that we’re starting to look conservative in comparison
One of my small personal accomplishments this year was making a few new memorably good foods: an apple pie, mint chocolate thumbprint cookies, an Italian wedding soup.
With two more kiddos on the way, I have a feeling cooking and baking is gonna be a big part of my future. I’ll take the wins now.
With two more kiddos on the way, I have a feeling cooking and baking is gonna be a big part of my future. I’ll take the wins now.
December 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
One of my small personal accomplishments this year was making a few new memorably good foods: an apple pie, mint chocolate thumbprint cookies, an Italian wedding soup.
With two more kiddos on the way, I have a feeling cooking and baking is gonna be a big part of my future. I’ll take the wins now.
With two more kiddos on the way, I have a feeling cooking and baking is gonna be a big part of my future. I’ll take the wins now.
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New housing stops landlords from raising rents—take it from the CEO of AvalonBay, one of NYC's largest landlords:
"We're well-positioned… we face significantly less new supply. Land entitled for multifamily is hard to come by, the amount of time it takes to get those entitlements… sets us up well.”
"We're well-positioned… we face significantly less new supply. Land entitled for multifamily is hard to come by, the amount of time it takes to get those entitlements… sets us up well.”
October 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
New housing stops landlords from raising rents—take it from the CEO of AvalonBay, one of NYC's largest landlords:
"We're well-positioned… we face significantly less new supply. Land entitled for multifamily is hard to come by, the amount of time it takes to get those entitlements… sets us up well.”
"We're well-positioned… we face significantly less new supply. Land entitled for multifamily is hard to come by, the amount of time it takes to get those entitlements… sets us up well.”
We need BPS to re-model the Buildable Lands Inventory under the assumption that any individual lot could be redeveloped this way. Not having to do lot assembly changes the game.
No such thing as an "Orphan Lot" any more.
Single stair stacked flats can fit on small lots (like this 50x70 corner lot). This could be 12 small 1Br, or six family size flats.
Just allow 50% lot coverage and 3FSR and away you go.
Single stair stacked flats can fit on small lots (like this 50x70 corner lot). This could be 12 small 1Br, or six family size flats.
Just allow 50% lot coverage and 3FSR and away you go.
December 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM
We need BPS to re-model the Buildable Lands Inventory under the assumption that any individual lot could be redeveloped this way. Not having to do lot assembly changes the game.
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This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
June 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
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We're not ready. But we should be. WA leaders need to position ourselves as a refuge -- from MAGA, from the climate crisis, from so many other things. That's going to require public spending and investment. Austerity will only make things worse, as it always does.
Is the Pacific Northwest ready for a wave of climate migration?
www.kuow.org
December 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
We're not ready. But we should be. WA leaders need to position ourselves as a refuge -- from MAGA, from the climate crisis, from so many other things. That's going to require public spending and investment. Austerity will only make things worse, as it always does.
I dunno, man. I think it’s okay the AVT folks to say, “Look, this project is what we’ve decided economic restoration looks like. That’s what is most important to us.” That’s fair! No one’s gonna begrudge them that.
Trying to claim highway expansion is true climate consciousness isn’t necessary.
Trying to claim highway expansion is true climate consciousness isn’t necessary.
A candid exchange on Instagram underscored the complicated, ongoing racial dynamics of this project
bikeportland.org/2025/12/09/a...
bikeportland.org/2025/12/09/a...
Advocates spar ahead of pivotal Rose Quarter project vote
"You folks are starting to veer into a politic defined by green-washed racism..."
bikeportland.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I dunno, man. I think it’s okay the AVT folks to say, “Look, this project is what we’ve decided economic restoration looks like. That’s what is most important to us.” That’s fair! No one’s gonna begrudge them that.
Trying to claim highway expansion is true climate consciousness isn’t necessary.
Trying to claim highway expansion is true climate consciousness isn’t necessary.
Is there any evidence that property values are dependent on (or even particularly affected by) the "style" of the neighborhood or surrounding buildings?
Has there been any research on this?
Has there been any research on this?
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Is there any evidence that property values are dependent on (or even particularly affected by) the "style" of the neighborhood or surrounding buildings?
Has there been any research on this?
Has there been any research on this?
Happy to see Pho Hung isn’t on here.
Lines have been clearly drawn in the debate over what type of bus service is right for 82nd Avenue. This was just one of three letters the agency received about the bus lane project today.
bikeportland.org/2025/12/08/6...
bikeportland.org/2025/12/08/6...
61 businesses sign onto letter opposing full BAT lanes on 82nd Avenue
With an update on the project expected to come at a TriMet Board meeting this Wednesday, groups on both sides of this issue are making their voices heard.
bikeportland.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Happy to see Pho Hung isn’t on here.
Step into your power, Council. Show Portland that the Mayor and Staff are stonewalling you. Make them show up. Make them own everything that’s not being done well.
Portland City Council will meet today to discuss the "Homelessness to Housing Continuum."
The original idea was for it to be a venue for Mayor Wilson to talk about his homelessness plan. But per Wilson's office, it's not certain he'll show up.
(And bureau staff have been advised not to attend.)
The original idea was for it to be a venue for Mayor Wilson to talk about his homelessness plan. But per Wilson's office, it's not certain he'll show up.
(And bureau staff have been advised not to attend.)
December 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Step into your power, Council. Show Portland that the Mayor and Staff are stonewalling you. Make them show up. Make them own everything that’s not being done well.
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"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."
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Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."
@profanity.accountant what’s the verdict?
November 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
@profanity.accountant what’s the verdict?
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"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
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Relegalize SROs. Relegalize single stair buildings to enable larger, family sized homes. Legalize townhomes everywhere. Legalize ADUs everywhere. Legalize apartment buildings in more places. Yes to all the homes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
The ‘New’ Solution for the N.Y.C. Housing Crisis: Single-Room Apartments
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Relegalize SROs. Relegalize single stair buildings to enable larger, family sized homes. Legalize townhomes everywhere. Legalize ADUs everywhere. Legalize apartment buildings in more places. Yes to all the homes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
Thank god for AG Rayfield. This is what present, capable leadership looks like.
BREAKING NEWS: We've filed a lawsuit over a new HUD policy that would force more people into homelessness.
#orpol #housing #homelessness
#orpol #housing #homelessness
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Thank god for AG Rayfield. This is what present, capable leadership looks like.
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As Lincoln said, an “electric cord” connects all our successive immigrant generations to the founding principles of human equality and republican government. Commitment to these principles, not blood and soil, make people Americans. www.uvu.edu/ccs/docs/lin...
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
As Lincoln said, an “electric cord” connects all our successive immigrant generations to the founding principles of human equality and republican government. Commitment to these principles, not blood and soil, make people Americans. www.uvu.edu/ccs/docs/lin...
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If you’re interested in the ongoing effort to make this happen you should come to White Owl Social Club from 4-6PM on December 13th! Cannot emphasize the amount that we would love to get you 🫵 involved to build an Inner Eastside for All! portlandneighborswelcome.org/events/2025-...
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
If you’re interested in the ongoing effort to make this happen you should come to White Owl Social Club from 4-6PM on December 13th! Cannot emphasize the amount that we would love to get you 🫵 involved to build an Inner Eastside for All! portlandneighborswelcome.org/events/2025-...
I’m really stuck on this quote from CA Jordan: Firing Hisserich was “informed by the gravity of this moment, with competing housing, homelessness, and budgetary crises.”
We are cooked if they don’t recognize that these are the same crisis, not competing ones.
We are cooked if they don’t recognize that these are the same crisis, not competing ones.
November 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I’m really stuck on this quote from CA Jordan: Firing Hisserich was “informed by the gravity of this moment, with competing housing, homelessness, and budgetary crises.”
We are cooked if they don’t recognize that these are the same crisis, not competing ones.
We are cooked if they don’t recognize that these are the same crisis, not competing ones.
Are the revoke people in DSA?
November 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Are the revoke people in DSA?
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Twitter's cooking your brain.
I literally don't care who you are. You're dumber for being on it. I'm not even speaking as to how bad a look it is to hang out at the Nazi bar. That shit is hurting you.
I literally don't care who you are. You're dumber for being on it. I'm not even speaking as to how bad a look it is to hang out at the Nazi bar. That shit is hurting you.
If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.
If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Twitter's cooking your brain.
I literally don't care who you are. You're dumber for being on it. I'm not even speaking as to how bad a look it is to hang out at the Nazi bar. That shit is hurting you.
I literally don't care who you are. You're dumber for being on it. I'm not even speaking as to how bad a look it is to hang out at the Nazi bar. That shit is hurting you.