YIMBY News for 12/15

[Eric Budd]

Strong Towns
The Power of Growing Incrementally (a series)

Keyword Score: 46.44, 0.00. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, building, cities, city, condo, construction, design, development, growth, home, house, housing, housing stock, land, neighborhood, parking, plan, price, project, property, redevelop, rent, rent control, resilient, supply, traffic, transit, transportation, walk, zone, zoning,
At a recent Curbside Chat presentation, I had someone ask me who the critics of Strong Towns are. *Who hears this compelling narrative and disagrees with it?* It was a question meant to understand the social context in which our movement fits. Whose ox is gored? My answer touched a little bit on the resistance of professionals to ideas that threaten their
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Next City
Mayor Ed Lee’s Death Is a Sharper Loss in the Trump Era

Keyword Score: 37.94, 0.00. building, cities, city, community benefit, commute, demand, growth, home, homeless, house, housing, housing authority, housing cost, housing price, hud, price, property, real estate, rent, renter, supply, traffic, urban,
President Barack Obama with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee in 2011 (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) When I read the news of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s sudden death Tuesday morning — laying in bed, scrolling through Twitter as is my (very healthy) habit — I felt a sudden and deflating stab of something (grief, maybe, or resignation?) that surprised me. Relate
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CityLab
Is the Rental Housing Explosion Over?

Keyword Score: 33.88, 0.00. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, building, cities, condo, construction, downtown, gentrifying, growth, home, homeowner, house, housing, income, land, neighborhood, rent, renter, single-family,
For more than a decade, the number of renter households in the U.S. has expanded year after year, sometimes by more than 1 million renters a year. This year, the explosion of renters in the wake of the foreclosure crisis has maybe, finally, begun to fade: For the first time since 2004, the number of renter households declined. Twelve years of growth has
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CityLab
When Frank Lloyd Wright Comes to Harlem

Keyword Score: 31.00, 0.00. apartment, building, city, density, design, developer, displace, home, house, housing, housing authority, land, neighborhood, plan, preservation, project, public space, rent, segregate,
A wooden panel designed to accompany Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City model declares that students of his proposed utopia must read Jesus, Voltaire, and Walt Whitman, among others, to truly understand the architect’s ideas for a new way of American living. Broadacre was the heart of Wright’s vision for a better American way, and he constantly tinkered
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CityLab
The Hidden Rooms Within New York's Public Housing

Keyword Score: 29.91, 0.00. apartment, building, cities, city, demand, development, displace, home, house, housing, housing authority, housing stock, income, neighborhood, occupancy, public hearing, rent, transit,
The vacancy rates in New York City’s public housing have fallen to an extraordinarily low rate—0.6 percent. As as of December 2017, just 1,050 units are available, and 25,000 families are lined up waiting for a spot to open up. But it’s not simply that there aren’t enough empty rooms. Nearly a third of all New York City Housing Authority apartments are u
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The Urbanist
University District Study Suggests Strategies to Sustain Small Businesses

Keyword Score: 29.47, 0.00. affordable, building, city, construction, design, development, displace, home, homeless, land, neighborhood, parking, plan, preservation, properties, property, redevelop, rent, transit, transportation, urban, zone, zoning,
A new study on the vulnerability of small businesses in the University District has been released. Peter Steinbrueck (a former member of the Seattle City Council and newly elected Port of Seattle Commissioner) led the study on behalf of local businesses to take stock of businesses operating in the community and gauge perceived challenges that zoning chan
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CityLab
Lab Report: L.A.'s New Pipeline for Affordable Housing

Keyword Score: 28.09, 0.00. affordable, affordable housing, cities, city, condo, construction, developer, development, development fee, downtown, growth, home, homeless, housing, land, plan, project, transit, urban,
*$100 million per year: *A new fee for developers in Los Angeles is intended to create a permanent revenue stream for affordable housing—$100 million annually—with builders paying between $1 and $15 for every square foot of new construction. *The **L.A. Times *reports: “Today we see hope in the promise that Los Angeles can continue to grow and indeed mus
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CityLab
Running Water Can Ease the Effects of Homelessness

Keyword Score: 27.88, 0.00. building, cities, city, growth, home, homeless, house, housing, housing option, income, land, municipal, parking, parking lot, plan, property, rent, supply, transient, transit,
Last spring, as the homeless population swelled in the port city of Tacoma, Washington, it faced a problem: water everywhere, but almost none to drink. Of the city’s more than 210,000 people, 1,231 were living unsheltered in January 2017, up from fewer than 500 in 2015. By this spring, many residents—both housed and unhoused—were voicing concerns about
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CityLab
Where the GOP Tax Bill Stands

Keyword Score: 26.16, 0.00. affordable, affordable housing, cities, city, demand, developer, development, growth, house, housing, income, municipal, plan, property, rent, transit,
After Doug Jones pulled off his upset in Alabama’s Senate race on Tuesday, the deadline for reconciling the Senate and House versions of the Republican tax bill acquired a sudden urgency. Republicans want to pass the bill, like, *now*, or as soon as Monday, in hopes of locking in one more Republican vote before Jones takes his seat. Details of the bill ar
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Denverite
Stapleton affordable housing will include apartments for homeless veterans

Keyword Score: 24.59, 0.00. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, city, construction, development, funds, home, homeless, house, housing, income, plan, project, rent, walk,
[image: Moline@Stapleton will add 180 units of affordable housing. (Rendering courtesy of city of Denver)]Moline@Stapleton will add 180 units of affordable housing. (Rendering courtesy of city of Denver) Northeast Denver Housing Center plans to build 180 more units of affordable housing in Stapleton, and 22 of those units will be available to homeless v
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Google Woos Silicon Valley City With Affordable Housing Promise

Keyword Score: 24.28, 0.00. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, building, city, community benefit, construction, demand, development, home, housing, neighborhood, plan, redevelop,
Rendering of Google's "Charleston East" campus (Credit: City of Mountain View) Mountain View City Council approved a massive redevelopment plan Tuesday, which will allow Google to construct a dense new campus with nearly 10,000 new homes and apartments and 3.6 million square feet of office space. The move is a departure on the city’s part, since only two
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Denverite
Denver news in 5 minutes: What you need to know today, Dec. 14

Keyword Score: 23.31, 0.00. affordable, affordable housing, annex, apartment, bike-share, building, city, construction, developer, development, downtown, gentrifying, home, homeless, housing, neighborhood, plan, project, redevelop, rent, transportation, walk,
Hi! There’s a big crush of development news today, and lots of other Denver stuff to catch up on. Let’s make it quick. [image: Aerial view of the Colorado State Capitol building, a park, 15th (Fifteenth) and 16th (Sixteenth) Streets, Broadway and Lincoln Street in the Central Business District of Denver. Colorado. Shows the Denver City and County Building
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