
Founder and Executive Director
Adam founded one of the longest-running tiny home communities in Oakland in 2015 with friends, and managed operations for a second community from 2018 to 2020 known as Buspatch. In 2018 he founded Tiny Logic LLC with a mission to propel the proliferation of tiny home opportunities in the Bay Area. He has sold, permitted and built backyard tiny homes across California, both modular and stick-built.
With a degree in journalism he has worked as a newspaper reporter in New York, a pedicab driver in San Francisco, and Operations Manager for the tenant rights and racial justice nonprofit Causa Justa :: Just Cause. He apprenticed with biomimicry architect and futurist Eugene Tssui, and with David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture design philosophy.
Adam also owns Tiny Logic, a for-profit development firm. When Tiny Logic works on Neighborship projects, those contracts are reviewed and approved by the board.
Adam's earlier work helping unhoused neighbors build a self-governed tiny home community was the subject of Snap Judgment's "A Tiny Plot."
Neighborship is governed by a volunteer board that reviews our projects, finances, and partnerships.
Candida Haynes
Community Elder
Betsy Morris
Treasurer
Phoenix Armenta
Community Elder
Tim Anderson
Community Elder
We imagine a world with plenty of places where a home on wheels can plug into water, power, and community, and plenty of homes to go around. In that world, homelessness is a choice, never a circumstance.
Our mission is to support urban tiny home living, because housing shouldn't be a privilege. It should just be there.
Neighborship is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It began as a community in 2015 and incorporated in 2020.
We lease a small site at 1790 10th Street in Oakland, next to the two parcels we leased from 2015 to 2022 as an off-grid tiny home community. Our goal is a resilience hub for the Prescott neighborhood where we were founded and which we love deeply. First we have to find out what's in the soil and clean it.
This project is funded by the Equitable Community Revitalization Grant through the Department of Toxic Substances Control. We're also grateful for past support from the NorCal Resilience Network, Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation, and the Port of Oakland.