YIMBY News for 10/1

[Eric Budd]

Cash Wave Seeks to Tilt Woodinville Elections Against Housing Growth

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 35.23. apartment, construction, development, downtown, growth, housing, project, rent, urban, walk, zone

October’s arrival means campaign season is officially kicking into high gear, with local candidates ramping up door knocking and cranking out yard signs to activate voters ahead of the November 4 general election. In the wine-tasting mecca of Woodinville, 20 miles northeast of Seattle, this year’s elections have taken on a very different tenor, with a one-man political action committee (PAC) spending a wave of cash in the hopes of pushing city government away from its current trajectory. A typical city council race in Woodinville, home to 14,000 residents, usually sees around 3,000 to 4,000 vo

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The Case for Redirecting Climate Funds to Microforests, Not EVs

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 33.11. apartment, bike lane, development, growth, house, housing, housing authority, parking, parking lot, project, transportation, urban

(Photo by Ahmed / Unsplash+) Like many U.S. states and cities, New Jersey is racing to electrify cars, buses and bikes as part of its climate resiliency plan. Taxpayers in the Garden State are spending $215 million to subsidize personal EVs and home chargers. But as a feminist urbanist driven by the mission of building accessible cities for everyone, I have to ask: In a climate emergency, why fund private luxury when we desperately need public infrastructure? We all want to have our cake and eat it too — to keep driving personal cars while saving the planet. But this delusion is costly. For th

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The end of rent debt?

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.36. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, house, housing, housing cost, income, parking, real estate, rent, renter

When Tay’Laur and Tay’Leah Paige got the eviction notice taped to their door in August 2023, they thought it was a mistake. The sisters had only missed July’s rent at their North Hollywood apartment during the entertainment industry strikes, which had put Tay’Leah out of work, and their property manager had seemed understanding. By their first court date in November, they had been approved for Los Angeles Emergency Rental Assistance, a program that would cover about six months of rent. But their landlord — Equity Residential — would not accept the money. The landlord’s refusal baffled the sist

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What’s Easier than Adding a Bus Lane in Seattle? Deleting One

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.27. bike lane, construction, development, downtown, house, project, real estate, rent, transportation, urban, walk

This weekend, Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) crews will pivot from installing bike lane barriers or installing speed cushions to something more destructive: removing a bus lane. The stretch of red paint in question sits on East Union Street just west of 12th Avenue, and was built as part of the $130 million RapidRide G project, which overhauled the Madison Street corridor and paved the way for thousands of new daily transit trips throughout Downtown, First Hill, Capitol Hill, and Madison Valley. Rather than the new RapidRide vehicles, this bus lane was built for the Route 2, which

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Advocates Say Philly’s Waterways Could Be the Next Great Playground – If the City Prioritizes Them

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.02. construction, downtown, house, income, project, public space, rent, urban, walk

Boaters get on the water at FDR Park. (Photo by Jared Gruenwald / GRID Philly) *This story was originally published by GRID Philly.* On an unseasonably cool Saturday during one of this spring’s stretches of wet weather, Yazmine Acosta, a 14-year-old from South Philadelphia, greeted visitors at a lakeside dock at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park, just across Broad Street from the Wells Fargo Center. Her slender arms outstretched, she demonstrated how to swoop a paddle’s ends in and out of the water in a figure eight fashion, instructing people twice her size and three times her age on proper kaya

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