YIMBY News for 6/18

[Eric Budd]

Inside Atlanta’s Ambitious Plan To End Decades of Taxpayer-Subsidized Displacement

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 65.28. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, downtown, gentrification, growth, house, housing, housing authority, hud, income, market-rate, mixed-use, mobility, project, public hearing, real estate, rent, urban, walk

[image: Economic Justice & Inclusive Finance] Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, shown here speaking during an election night watch party after winning reelection in 2025. (Photo by Mike Stewart / AP) The dust is just settling in Atlanta. Over the past nine months, the city has fought a huge battle over whether to extend the city’s Tax-Allocation Districts, or TADs. After Mayor Ande Dickens’ initial proposal to extend this controversial public financing tool last fall drew a groundswell of pushback, the city went back to the drawing board. Over the last few months, the city worked with community lea

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Woodside’s battle over affordable housing is exactly why we need comprehensive reform

YIMBY Law

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.45. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, housing, income, nimby, planning commission, project, rent, single family, yimby, zoning

After years of battle and several violations of housing law (remember when it claimed to be a mountain lion habitat?) the city of Woodside, California has seen fit to approve *four* units of housing. There is no greater proof that local officials cannot be given discretion over these decisions. The project was modest, safe, and legally compliant, but still took years of effort, four YIMBY Law letters, and legal representation to get off the ground. Along the way it faced illegal obstruction, including from the local government itself. The development at 10 Still Creek Road is composed of a sin

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Are Counties the Answer to Governmental Gridlock?

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.59. development, housing, rent, transportation, urban

The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence has spawned as much worry as celebration. Two scholars have gone so far as to christen our era as a time of “punitive federalism,” in which the federal government opens its big financial guns to threaten states and cities until they fall into line. This would have horrified Thomas Jefferson, who celebrated local self-government. In a letter to a friend in 1816, he called for sorting out government’s functions “by placing under every one what his own eye may superintend.” He was sure that this was the best way “to fortify us against the d

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