YIMBY News for 9/20

[Eric Budd]

CityLab
Dan Doctoroff on Rebuilding New York After 9/11

Keyword Score: 53.97, 0.00. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, building, cities, city, demand, development, downtown, gentrification, growth, housing, hud, income, inequality, land, middle-income, neighborhood, nimby, plan, preservation, project, property, real estate, redevelop, rent, transportation, urban, walk, zone, zoning,
Few people have had a greater impact on the look and feel of New York City than Dan Doctoroff. As deputy mayor of economic development for the first six years of the Bloomberg Administration, he presided over the fine-grain rezoning of 40% of the City, as well as the mega-projects that have come to define 21st century New York. In his new memoir, *Greater
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Next City
Here’s What U.S. Cities Gain If Housing Is Affordable

Keyword Score: 51.34, 0.00. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, cities, city, demand, development, displace, growth, home, homeless, homeowner, house, housing, housing and urban development, housing crisis, hud, impact fee, income, land, municipal, neighborhood, occupancies, preservation, property, regional, rent, rent control, renter, transportation, urban, yimby, zoning,
Demonstrators protest against evictions in San Francisco in 2015. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) This week, as part of the #RenterWeekofAction, September 18 to 23, renters in over 45 cities will take to the streets to demand better protections from displacement and more community control over land and housing. Related Stories - HUD Has Blight-Fighting Po
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The Urbanist
SDCI Takes a Stab at Parking Reform

Keyword Score: 44.16, 0.00. affordability, affordable, apartment, building, bus rapid transit, bus service, city, construction, demand, development, housing, income, mixed-use, multimodal, nimby, parking, parking garage, parking lot, project, supply, traffic, transit, transportation, urban, walk, zone,
On Thursday, the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections (SDCI) issued draft legislation that would reform how the City deals with parking requirements. SDCI promises to provide “flexibility for building owners to make parking facilities with excess capacity available for public use.” Notably, the proposal would correct a Director’s Rule defini
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Denverite
How Denver plans to create more affordable housing and keep what it already has

Keyword Score: 40.47, 0.00. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, apartment, building, city, condo, construction, developer, development, displace, dwelling, funds, home, homeless, homeowner, house, housing, housing option, income, land, market-rate, middle-income, neighborhood, plan, price, project, properties, property, redevelop, rent, renter, transit,
Denver has released a much anticipated draft of the comprehensive housing plan that will guide the city’s investments in affordable housing over the next five years. This is the plan that will help the city spend some $15 million a year from its affordable housing fund — or $150 million over 10 years — to help the 70,000 to 80,000 people in Denver who are
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CityLab
Portland Prepares for the Freeway Fight of the Century

Keyword Score: 38.25, 0.00. affordable, affordable housing, city, construction, demand, development, displace, gentrification, home, homeowner, housing, land, mobility, neighborhood, plan, project, property, redevelop, rent, traffic, transit, transportation, urban,
No two transportation projects are identical. But an investment in freeway infrastructure is, at the end of the day, an investment in freeway infrastructure—even if there’s a patch of grass on top. Which means that Oregon has joined the growing list of states pushing highway expansion projects on rather disingenuous grounds. On Sunday, Portland Mayor Ted
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Next City
Fighting Gentrification in Chicago With an Inclusive Arts Space

Keyword Score: 35.25, 0.00. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, apartment, building, city, construction, development, displace, gentrification, home, homeless, housing, income, land, live-work, mixed-use, neighborhood, plan, project, properties, real estate, rent, single-family,
Rendering of Nancy Maldonado/Paseo Boricua Arts Center in Chicago When Chicago poet Eduardo Arocho first saw the artist’s collective in Wicker Park, he was jealous. He was there for a residency, in the 1990s, but he couldn’t shake the feeling that something like it should exist in the neighborhood where he grew up, Humboldt Park. Related Stories -
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CityLab
A (Short-Lived) Living Room for the Homeless

Keyword Score: 34.94, 0.00. apartment, building, city, demand, design, home, homeless, house, housing, housing price, land, neighborhood, plan, price, project, public space, real estate, rent, single-family, supply, urban, walk, zone,
Walking down a wide alleyway Friday near the University of Washington, I came upon an upon an unusual sight. In this gritty stretch of loading docks near University Avenue was a scene sprung out of an Ikea catalogue: a long beige couch, funky plastic egg-shaped chairs, lush indoor plants, bouquets of flowers, and a bookshelf with puzzles and Pictionary.
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CityLab
How to Save a Dying Suburb

Keyword Score: 28.84, 0.00. annex, cities, city, downtown, home, house, housing, income, land, neighborhood, regional, rent, transit, transportation, urban, walk,
East Cleveland, a suburb contiguous to Cleveland, Ohio, has lost 36.7 percent of its population just since 2000. Its population is 93 percent black and its poverty rate is 42.6 percent. The city is classified as fiscally distressed by the state of Ohio. Its budget has fallen from $16 to $10 million in about six years, and nearly half the city’s workforce
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Next City
Boulder Is Drowning in Empty Apartments

Keyword Score: 27.06, 0.00. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, apartment, building, cities, city, commute, construction, demand, design, development, downtown, downtown boulder, dwelling, house, housing, hud, plan, price, project, rent, renter, single-family,
Downtown Boulder (Photo by Paul Sableman) While nearby Denver can’t seem to construct housing fast enough, Boulder, Colorado, is grappling with a glut of rental units — even as rents continue to rise. Related Stories - HUD Announces Finalists in Affordable Housing Innovation Competition - Even Copenhagen Makes Mistakes - Moveable Micro-House
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The Urbanist
South Lake Union Boom Tour on Saturday

Keyword Score: 25.38, 0.00. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, building, development, home, homeless, house, housing, income, neighborhood, price, project, urban, walk, zoning,
For our final walking tour of the year we’re partnering with local housing organizations to take a close look at the South Lake Union development boom. While the neighborhood is best known for its transformation from a working class warehouse district to a global technology hub, the area also has a stunning variety of affordable housing projects putting r
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Denverite
Path of destruction: See the downtown Denver highway that almost happened

Keyword Score: 20.84, 0.00. building, city, construction, development, downtown, growth, house, land, neighborhood, parking, plan, project, redevelop, regional, traffic, urban,
[image: A composite image of plans for the Skyline freeway and modern-day satellite imagery. (Courtesy u/Jadebenn, Google Earth)]A composite image of plans for the Skyline freeway and modern-day satellite imagery. (Courtesy u/Jadebenn, Google Earth) Denver demolished nearly 30 blocks of historic buildings downtown in the 1970s — and it almost went much
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Strong Towns
Four Tips for Better Community Engagement

Keyword Score: 20.50, 0.00. apartment, bike lane, bike path, building, cities, city, developer, development, displace, gentrification, home, income, mixed-use, neighborhood, plan, project, rent, transportation, walk,
Last week, I had the privilege of attending the National Walking Summit, hosted by our friends at America Walks. It was three days of inspiring speakers and important conversations on the future of the walking movement, especially as it relates to health, poverty and equity. One thread that ran throughout the event—or at least the one that caught my atten
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Strong Towns
Cultivate Collaborative is Putting Strong Towns Principles into Action

Keyword Score: 20.38, 0.00. building, cities, city, comp plan, developer, development, growth, neighborhood, plan, project, rent, resilient, sustainable, urban,
Kevin Shepherd is a Strong Towns member and sponsor who recently partnered with friends and colleagues to start a new organization called Cultivate Collaborative, which is putting Strong Towns ideas into action. Read on to learn about why they started this group and what they hope to accomplish. You can also hear Kevin talk more about this new initiative
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