YIMBY News for 10/16

[Eric Budd]

Louisville ballot measures draw in thousands of local dollars

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 35.03. affordable, affordable housing, development, growth, house, housing, impact fee, income, market-rate, project, public hearing, rent, transportation, zone, zoning

Recent financial reports for two groups campaigning about Louisville Ballot Questions 300 and 301 show opposition to the measures has received nearly three times the financial contributions as their supporters. The measures, which address zoning, affordable housing and the impact fees the city imposes on developers, will go in front of Louisville voters for the Nov. 4 election after a recent public hearing and a vote by City Council in September. Louisville Together, the group opposing both measures, filed a report with the Louisville City Clerk’s Office that shows about $3,600 in contribution

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To Prevent Fire Deaths, Allow More Apartments

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.42. apartment, condo, construction, growth, homeowner, house, housing, housing stock, parking, rent, single-family, urban, zoning

The nation needs more housing, and with a record 63 percent of households consisting of one or two people, the biggest need is for apartments. But in many places outdated zoning restrictions and building codes make adding apartment buildings difficult and expensive, and sometimes block them altogether. While reforming those regulations would go a long way toward improving both the availability affordability of housing, it would provide another benefit as well: preventing fire deaths. The Pew Charitable Trusts recently conducted the first-ever analysis of U.S. fire deaths by building type and a

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Darrell Owens on East Bay Yesterday Podcast

Darrell Owens Substack

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.81. apartment, development, gentrification, growth, housing, preservation, project, supply, urban, yimby, zoning

I’m a longtime fan of Liam O’Donoghue’s podcast *East Bay Yesterday* and finally got a chance to be on it. Liam has been a longtime reader of my Substack and picked several key subjects of past articles to flesh out on his podcast: - Historic Preservation : When it should and shouldn’t take precedent over growth and progress. - Modern Architecture : The design of new apartments and whether they homogenize cities. - Displacement and Gentrification : How it manifested in Oakland based on Census data. - The Downzoning of the East Bay : the origins of our modern housing shortage and whether the ba

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The Emotional Architecture of Affordable Housing Leadership

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.73. affordable, affordable housing, housing, project, urban

(Illustration by Katelyn Perry / Unsplash) In the affordable housing sector, crisis isn’t an exception. It’s the backdrop against which normal, day-to-day business gets done. Whether managing funding volatility, policy shifts or operational gaps, leaders in this field are expected to do more with less relentlessly and often without recognition. The challenges they face go beyond budgets and bureaucracy. We’re now contending with deeper emotional fatigue, relational strain and a fraying sense of shared purpose. We often talk about resilience in terms of individual grit. But right now, organizat

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