YIMBY News for 4/4

[Eric Budd]

Op-Ed: Help Us Fight for the Bold Housing Plan Seattle Deserves

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 52.81. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, comprehensive plan, construction, cost of housing, density, development, growth, house, housing, mobility, public hearing, rent, single-family, urban, walk, zone, zoning

[image: Op-Ed: Help Us Fight for the Bold Housing Plan Seattle Deserves] We all know how hard it is for working families to afford to live in Seattle. Residents, especially communities of color, young families, and our elders, are regularly priced out of town or pushed onto the streets. Almost everyone in Seattle will tell you that they want to change this, but what can we do to make that happen? Seattle's Comprehensive Plan update is a once-a-decade opportunity to address a core aspect of our housing affordability crisis - exclusionary zoning. Exclusionary zoning prevents lower-cost housing i

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The Weekly Wrap: Non-Citizen Entrepreneurs Are Now Ineligible for SBA-Backed Loans

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 39.20. construction, development, housing, housing and urban development, housing crisis, hud, income, project, rent, transportation, urban

[image: The Weekly Wrap] Green card holders hoping to launch or expand their small businesses will now be shut out of one of the most significant sources of capital: Small Business Administration loans and SBA-backed loans. (Photo by Jermaine Ee / Unsplash) *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.* ------------------------------ New

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What’s Working: What’s up with job openings in Colorado?

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.56. apartment, construction, downtown, growth, house, housing, hud, occupancies, park-n-ride, project, real estate, rent, renter, supply, walk

------------------------------ *Tamara Chuang* *Business/Technology Reporter* ------------------------------ *Quick links: Amp robotics-adjacent job | GrowHaus operations director | Convention Center sales manager | Beverage distributor closing, cuts 526 jobs| Labor strikes | Tech job forecasts | Take the poll* Are there really job openings out there? Depends on whom you ask. Employers who are hiring say yes. Some job seekers feel differently. Andrew Hudson, who sees both sides as founder of Andrew Hudson’s Jobs List, put it like this: “Finding a job in Colorado is so difficult right now. Empl

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State Bill Would Stop Highway Expansions Near Vulnerable New Yorkers

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.08. construction, development, housing, income, project, rent, transportation

Could we send the highways to Hell? New York State will halt the expansion of highways near public housing developments and asthma hot spots, under a new bill that seeks to protect some of the poorest and most vulnerable New Yorkers from excess pollution and emissions. Assembly Member Emerita Torres (D-Bronx) recently introduced the Stop Highway Community Harm Act to ban the state from widening highways within 200 feet of public housing or in ZIP codes where the three-year average of asthma-related emergency department visits exceed 70 visits per 10,000 people, slightly above the New York City

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