YIMBY News for 9/13

[Eric Budd]

Harrell Announces Reparations Fund, Ramps Up Attacks on Wilson

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 48.98. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, fair housing, gentrification, growth, house, housing, housing price, housing stock, income, market-rate, project, rent, renter, urban, zoning

Mayor Bruce Harrell has rolled out a proposal to spend $80 million over the next four years on an “anti-gentrification and reparations fund,” seeking to right past housing injustices against Black Seattle residents. At the press conference held at Bryant Manor Apartments in Seattle’s Central Area Wednesday, Harrell also trumpeted $350 million in Seattle of Housing investments he aims to make in 2026, which he portrayed as record investment. The mayor sketched out the reparations fund in general terms rather than hard details, but he did say it would feature down payment assistance and rent ass

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Breaking Down Barriers: New Report Shows Excluding Apartments is Already Illegal Across Pennsylvania

YIMBY Law

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.00. apartment, development, growth, housing, rent, yimby, zone, zoning

YIMBY Law has created a new report that provides a powerful legal tool for challenging exclusionary zoning in the Keystone State. The report, *The Pennsylvania Fair Share Doctrine: Excluding multi-family housing developments is already illegal in many Pennsylvania cities**,* details a decades-old legal principle that requires municipalities to provide their “fair share” of housing, particularly multi-family homes. The doctrine, established by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the landmark 1977 case *Surrick v. Zoning Hearing Bd.*, is a potent but underutilized tool to combat the housing shorta

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Redmond Celebrates Opening of Trail Connection to Eastrail Corridor

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.95. bike lane, downtown, growth, multimodal, parking, project, rent, urban, walk

Today, Redmond will celebrate the completion of the final phase of the Redmond Central Connector trail, an important multimodal link that will finally bridge Downtown Redmond with Eastrail, the Eastside’s longest walking and biking corridor. The third segment of the trail to open, the Connector now extends all the way north to NE 124th Street, where riders can either head toward Kirkland or Woodinville. The new 1.6 miles of paved, lighted trail officially opened to users earlier this summer, bringing riders up the east side of Willows Road alongside the Willows Run golf course. An $8 million p

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