YIMBY News for 6/9

[Eric Budd]

The Obama Center: Caught in an Old David vs. Goliath Drama

CityLab

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KEYWORD SCORE: 47.78. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, building, city, community benefit, construction, design, development, displace, funds, gentrification, home, housing, income, land, neighborhood, plan, project, property, real estate, redevelop, rent, segregate, transportation, unrelated, urban, zoning

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the storied occupation of Columbia University, during which student and neighborhood activists prevented the construction of a functionally segregated gym in a public park in Harlem. It was a major inflection point in urban history: university-driven urban renewal paused; anchor institutions realized they needed to

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Re-Legalize Family-Friendly Housing. Everywhere.

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 43.97. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, apartment, cities, city, condo, construction, downtown, dwelling, home, house, housing, housing crisis, inequality, land, mobility, occupancy, plan, price, rent, renter, segregation, single family, single-family, sustainable, transit, zone, zoning

The other day, one of the board members of the group organizing to kill the (MHA) Mandatory Housing Affordability program’s nominal upzones that will increase the construction of affordable housing, stated, ‘The only family-sized housing for rent is a house, and 23% of Seattle’s standalone single-family houses are rentals. Upzoning Seattle is anti-family.

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Houston’s Third Ward Turns to Community Land Trust Model

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 41.56. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, cities, city, density, development, displace, downtown, gentrification, home, homeowner, house, housing, housing price, income, land, neighborhood, plan, price, project, properties, property, redevelop, rent, urban

An artist sitting outside a shotgun house, part of Project Row Houses, a public art project in 22 shotgun houses in Houston's historic Third Ward, celebrating the area's historic roots and maintaining the connection to its present day. (Credit: Library of Congress/Carol M. Highsmith) Houston’s Third Ward residents are turning to community land trusts as a

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How Library Systems Can Help Address Affordable Housing Crises

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KEYWORD SCORE: 41.00. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, building, cities, city, condo, construction, demand, density, developer, development, home, homeless, housing, housing crisis, income, land, market-rate, mixed-use, neighborhood, plan, project, properties, property, redevelop, rent, transit, urban

With more people than ever before with mental health problems and basic needs such as food and shelter, libraries like this one in San Francisco are adding new services to their repertoire. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) When the Mission Bay Branch Library opened in San Francisco, in 2006, there was no other project quite like it. Related Stories

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Dead Golf Courses Are the New NIMBY Battlefield

CityLab

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.94. apartment, building, cities, city, developer, development, home, house, housing, income, infill, land, mixed-use, nimby, open space, plan, price, redevelop, rent, single-family, transit, urban, zone, zoning

Golf is dying, many experts say. According to one study by the golf industry group Pellucid Corp., the number of regular golfers fell from 30 to 20.9 million between 2002 and 2016. Ratings are down, equipment sales are lagging, and the number of rounds played annually has fallen. Part of the bust can be blamed on the fallen fortunes of a single person: T

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Colorado House District 5: Candidates on the big issues in central Denver’s Democratic primary

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.09. affordability, affordable, cities, construction, developer, development, gentrification, growth, home, house, housing, housing cost, neighborhood, plan, project, property, rent, rent control, renter, supply, transit, transit-oriented, transportation

Ballots are in the mail for Colorado’s House District 5 primaries, with Democratic voters choosing between four aspiring candidates for the central Denver district. The current House 5 representative, House Speaker Crisanta Duran, cannot run again due to term limits. Here’s what her would-be replacements told Denverite about their policies and positions.

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CityLab Daily: Dead Golf Courses Are the New NIMBY Battlefield

CityLab

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.69. apartment, building, cities, city, community benefit, developer, development, growth, home, housing, nimby, plan, rent, segregation, transportation, urban, zone

*Keep up with the most pressing, interesting, and important city stories of the day. Sign up for the CityLab Daily newsletter here.* *** What We’re Following *Not in My Back Nine: *Bad news, dad—golf is dying. As Millennials show a waning interest in the sport, golf courses and country clubs are starting to shut down. That’s not great for golfers, but it

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What Reduced Transit Fares Could Mean for Low-Income New Yorkers

CityLab

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.59. affordable, affordable housing, city, commuting, funds, home, house, housing, income, inequality, mobility, plan, price, project, rent, transit, transportation, urban

When Manny A. lost his job in 2016, finding a new one became a literally distant prospect. For the immigrant contract worker living in Queens, riding the subway in New York City was really, really expensive: Fares currently stand at $2.75 per ride and $121 per monthly pass, rates that have steadily increased in recent years. While searching for work, Mann

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Swedish-Danish Metro Project Moves Beyond Dream Stage

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KEYWORD SCORE: 28.63. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, city, construction, design, developer, development, housing, land, mixed-use, multimodal, parking, plan, project, rent, sustainability, traffic, transit, transit-oriented, transportation, urban

Sooner or later, the 9.5-mile Oresund Bridge will no longer be the only link between the Danish capital of Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmo. (AP Photo/Brian Rasmussen, Nordfoto ) *Our weekly “New Starts” roundup of new and newsworthy transportation projects worldwide.* Related Stories - Who’s Afraid of Fare-Free Public Transit? - Seattl

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Colorado House 4: Democratic candidates on housing, education and more

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.50. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, cities, city, density, design, developer, home, house, housing, income, inequality, land, municipal, neighborhood, plan, property, rent, renter, segregation, urban

It’s an open race in northwestern Denver’s House District 4, where three candidates are running in the Democratic primary. The current representative, Democrat Dan Pabon, is not running due to term limits. Here’s what we heard in conversations with the candidates. *Ed Britt:* [image: William "Ed" Britt, left, with goat. (Courtesy Ed Britt)]William “Ed” B

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Uptown Advocates Demand Better Multimodal Plan for Seattle Center Arena Renovation

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.09. building, city, construction, crosswalk, demand, development, downtown, mobility, multi-modal, multimodal, neighborhood, occupancy, parking, plan, project, redevelop, rent, traffic, transit, transportation, walk

On Wednesday, the Uptown Alliance, in conjunction with several other advocacy groups, issued a blistering comment letter on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Seattle Center Arena renovation and expansion project. “We found the DEIS and accompanying mitigation measures, with its nearly exclusive focus on low occupancy vehicles, does

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Colorado Senate District 34: Who’s who in the Democratic primaries?

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.50. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, cities, city, construction, design, funds, growth, housing, income, inequality, land, municipal, neighborhood, property, rent, rent control, renter, sustainable, transportation

Three candidates are vying to represent the Democrats in Senate District 34 in northwestern Denver. The current senator, Lucía Guzmán, can’t run again due to term limits. We spoke to the three Democrats about their positions on key topics, including health care, education and housing. Julie Gonzales [image: Julie Gonzales shoots video of a press conferen

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Colorado Senate District 32: Meet the Democrats in the southwest Denver primary

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.50. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, cities, construction, density, design, development, higher-density, house, housing, housing option, housing price, neighborhood, price, rent, rent control, transportation

Three candidates are racing to represent the Democrats in Senate District 32 in southwestern Denver. The current senator, Irene Aguilar, can’t run again due to term limits. We spoke to the three primary candidates about their positions on key topics, including health care, education and housing. *Hazel Gibson* [image: Hazel Gibson canvasses in Washington

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