YIMBY News for 2/4

[Eric Budd]

Becoming a ’15-Minute City’ Could Be Within Reach for Tacoma

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 47.50. affordable, bike lane, bus route, comprehensive plan, density, development, downtown, housing, mixed-use, parking, planning commission, project, public space, rent, transportation, urban, walk, zone

Rubén Casas believes that the lack of connected, walkable neighborhoods may be helping to spur the “epidemic of loneliness.” Speaking at a January 30 forum hosted by transit advocacy organization Tacoma On the Go, Casas, who is an associate professor at the University of Washington Tacoma and serves on the Tacoma Transportation Commission, referenced outgoing Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy’s letter discussing the negative health effects of social isolation, and said that he and others “live in cities by name only.” “Really, we live in suburbs that have certain sections or islands that are tru

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Three Years In, America’s First New Black-Led Bank in 20 Years Is Picking Up Steam

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 42.42. affordable, affordable housing, development, downtown, growth, house, housing, income, mixed-use, project, real estate, rent, supply, urban, walk

[image: The Bottom Line] Adelphi Bank in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) *This week marks one year since the publication of Next City senior economic justice correspondent Oscar Perry Abello’s first book, “The Banks We Deserve: Reclaiming Community Banking for a Just Economy.” But it also marks the start of the 100th Black History Month, so we’re checking in the progress made by one of the Black-led banks featured in his book: Adelphi Bank.* Last September, Lyneir Richardson got an unusual phone call. Richardson is the founder and CEO of TREND, a Chicago-based company with a miss

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Wilson Promotes Sam Steele to Lead Seattle Permitting Department

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.22. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, housing, project, urban

Belman is out as SDCI director and returning to Sound Transit. Sam Steele will be the new interim head of the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections (SDCI), Mayor Katie Wilson revealed in an email Monday to department employees. The 26-year veteran of City of Seattle government most recently served as SDCI’s director of inspections. Steele will start as interim director on February 11. “I’m looking forward to working with Sam and the whole SDCI team as we deliver on an affordable and vibrant Seattle that works for everyone,” Wilson said in the email. Steele worked his way up after

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People v. Camp signals hope for Colorado housing reforms

YIMBY Law

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.56. affordable, affordable housing, condo, housing, parking, rent, yimby, zoning

*A case about criminal sentencing may be the key to enforcing statewide zoning reforms.* Late December Colorado housing advocates won a victory in an unexpected place: a criminal court decision by the state supreme court. Following the logic of that decision, state courts should find that housing reforms are not only good policy; they are supported by well-established legal principles. That case was about sentences from criminal offenses, but the same principle applies to housing. The state is embroiled in an ongoing legal battle over housing reforms; in *Greenwood Village et al v. State of Co

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