Hands— Portland

A place to find each other. And get the work done.

Hands is a Portland-only listings board with a time-bank. Trade hours of skill. Move materials before they hit the landfill. Show up to a build day. One hour given is one hour earned — back to you, back to a neighbor.

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Sat 2026-06-15: deck rebuild build day, Bed-Stuy

All-day rebuild of a sagging back deck for an elderly tenant. 6 hands needed. Materials covered; lunch provided. Beginners welcome — there's work at every level.

211 Putnam Ave, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, NY event skill offer
4 hrs of CAD time for tenant association permit apps

Architecture student offering 4 hours of drafting per month for tenant orgs or mutual aid groups preparing permit applications. NYC remote-friendly.

NYC (remote work OK) — offer
Reclaimed oak flooring — Brooklyn pickup

~200sf of 3/4" reclaimed white oak flooring from a Bed-Stuy gut reno. Cleaned, denailed, ready for second life. Free; pickup by 2026-06-01.

Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, NY gift request
Need a structural eye on a sagging porch beam

Crown Heights tenant association — front porch is visibly sagging mid-span. Need someone with structural training to look and tell us if it's urgent.

Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY gift skill offer
Two carpentry hands, Saturdays, Bay Area

Mid-career carpenter offering one Saturday a month to community build days, tenant repair, or co-op construction in the East Bay.

East Bay, CA — request
Portable table saw needed for repair clinic

Detroit repair clinic running monthly out of a community center; missing a portable table saw. Borrow, donate, or temporary use all welcome.

Detroit, MI gift

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How Hands works

Five kinds of listing.

Offer a tool. Request a repair. Trade an hour of CAD time. Ask for a permit-stamp. Call a build day on Saturday.

One hour = one token.

A carpenter's hour and a tenant-advocate's hour are the same hour. Materials move freely as gifts. Skills move on a ledger.

Vouched, not gated.

Anyone can browse. To post or claim, a neighbor vouches you in. Shelter and no-fixed-address paths exist from day one.

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