YIMBY News for 7/17

[Eric Budd]

Detroit’s New Greenway Will Boost Mobility and Investment. Will It Bring Displacement, Too?

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KEYWORD SCORE: 67.92. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, bike lane, bike path, construction, development, gentrification, gentrified, growth, homeowner, house, housing, housing price, housing stock, income, mixed-use, mobility, project, real estate, rent, single-family, transportation, urban, walk

*This story was produced with BridgeDetroit as part of Next City’s Local Reporting Hub, with funding from the Kresge Foundation.* Ryan Marie Davis moved back to Detroit for love. At the height of COVID-19, she and her now-husband, Justin Davis, began walking the Dequindre Cut and Detroit’s Riverwalk until being outdoors became a daily habit. Last year, the couple purchased a sprawling 4,2000-square-foot home with an inground pool, neighboring a park. It was the highest-priced home in Russell Woods in five years. The historic district is one of several northwest Detroit neighborhoods along the

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Utah's Top Housing Official Wants to Restore Homebuying Opportunities for Young People

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KEYWORD SCORE: 55.77. affordable, affordable housing, bus rapid transit, construction, cost of housing, density, development, growth, homeowner, house, housing, housing cost, housing crisis, income, project, real estate, rent, single-family, supply, transit-oriented, urban, walk, zone, zoning

In Brief: Steve Waldrip will oversee Utah’s new Division of Housing and Community Development. Like most other states, Utah has seen housing costs skyrocket over the last decade. As an adviser to Gov. Spencer Cox, he aims to coordinate state housing plans and promote more opportunities for attainable homeownership. A lot has changed in the way state and local lawmakers think about housing policy over the last decade. Concerns about affordability, which were once concentrated in expensive coastal capitals, have spread to every corner of the country. State legislatures controlled by both Democra

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Newly-Passed Housing Reforms Includes Key Changes for Local Lenders

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KEYWORD SCORE: 44.11. affordable, affordable housing, construction, cost of housing, development, downtown, house, housing, income, project, real estate, rent, residential solar, single-family, urban, zone

[image: Backyard] Mayra Ibarra lives in a new home in the Rio Grande Valley, developed by Texas National Bank, a 105-year-old community bank and one of the oldest Hispanic-owned banks across the country. (Photo courtesy Texas National Bank) State and local governments currently have nearly $800 billion deposited in bank accounts across the country. What if more of those deposits were financing things communities actually need, like more housing that most people can actually afford or thriving main streets lined with local businesses? Congress recently passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Ac

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New York To Block Construction of New Data Centers. Here’s What Other Communities Should Know.

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.78. construction, development, project, rent, urban, zoning

A data center is under construction in Ashburn in Loudoun County, Virginia, which is home to the world's largest concentration of data centers. (Photo by Ted Shaffrey / AP) With data centers popping up faster than most people can count, it’s hard to keep track of them. But a recent report from the Pew Research Center shows more than a third of Americans (38%) live within five miles of at least one operational data center. Historically, data centers have been built in more urban areas, but with the popularization of AI, sources show developers are shifting toward building in more rural communit

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