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Cultivate is an active member of Better Housing Together as well as 1000 Friends of Oregon. Better Housing Together is an advocacy organization and growing network of community partners who are committed to helping Eugene-Springfield grow in innovative, inclusive ways, while 1000 Friends of Oregon works with Oregonians to build livable urban and rural communities, protect family farms and forests, and conserve natural areas.

Below are a few articles and letters we’ve contributed to the community conversation over the years as we work to address our nation’s housing crisis and expand homeownership access. 

Cultivate is an active member of Better Housing Together, an advocacy organization and growing network of community partners who are committed to helping Eugene-Springfield grow in innovative, inclusive ways. Below are a few articles and letters we’ve contributed to the community conversation over the years as we work to address our nation’s housing crisis and expand homeownership access.

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Affordable Middle Housing Co-ops

Opportunities and Barriers to Expanding Oregon Homeownership

Published 2022

Co-ops are an underutilized form of homeownership that has particular resonance with Oregon’s new middle housing opportunities. Co-ops (and middle housing in general) are an important step toward creating truly inclusive neighborhoods.
 

by John Fischer, Tom Bowerman, John Allcott MD, Andrew Heben, & Dylan Lamar
April, 2022

City Club of Eugene - 2/12/21

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS – OREGON
2020 DESIGN ANNUAL

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Urbanize & Insulate

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FOSSIL-FUEL EXIT STRATEGY

Published 2010

A succinct and highly readable book that describes the opportunity for architects and planners to increase the livability of our built environment even whilst ushering in a paradigm shift away from fossil-fuel dependence.

Sea Change Housing

MASTERS TERMINAL STUDIO PROJECT

2009

A tongue-in-cheek look at the housing solutions that become possible when we brush zoning restrictions aside and question whether we really need to depend on the private automobile and fill our city with parking lots. What could those lots become instead?

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