YIMBY News for 1/24

[Eric Budd]

The Weekly Wrap: Philly Sues Trump Admin Over Removal of Slavery Exhibit

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 41.66. affordable, affordable housing, development, downtown, house, housing, income, parking, project, rent, urban, zoning

[image: The Weekly Wrap] The President's House site features the names of the nine enslaved members of President Washington's household who lived there. (Photo by Joseph E.B. Elliott / National Park Service) *Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and elevate the solutions that bring us closer to economic, environmental and social justice. * *If you enjoy this newsletter, share it with a friend or colleague and tell them to subscribe.* ------------------------------ Philadelphia Sues Trump Administration For Removing

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Seattle Streetcar Faces Uncertain Future as Newest Line Turns Ten

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 32.22. bus route, construction, development, downtown, growth, housing, planning commission, project, rent, transportation, urban

“It’s dead.” Rico Quirindongo, the head of Seattle’s Office of Planning and Community Development, did not mince words when bringing up the Center City Connector, the long-deferred project to finally connect the city’s two disconnected streetcar lines. In early January, Quirindongo was briefing the Seattle Planning Commission about the City’s growth plan for the downtown area, a proposal that conspicuously leaves out the beleaguered project. “There’s no money. It’s not in the transportation plan, the federal dollars that [Mayor Jenny] Durkan put on hold, those are not coming back to us, and th

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