YIMBY News for 6/2

[Eric Budd]

A South Bronx Health Center Will Rise Again, Thanks to Local Organizers

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KEYWORD SCORE: 36.39. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, house, housing, project, rent, urban

South Bronx Unite has been championing the adaptive reuse of the former Lincoln Recovery Center as a community-controlled asset. (Photo courtesy South Bronx Unite) The empty, worn-down building at 349 East 40th Street in the South Bronx has had many lives. It was constructed during the mid-1930s as a Public Works Administration project and opened as the Mott Haven Health Center. Forty years later, following a nonviolent takeover of nearby Lincoln Hospital by the Black Panthers and Young Lords, it reopened as the People’s Detox Center, where a group of radical doctors and community leaders pion

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Can Researchers Rise To Meet This Political Moment? At CURE, We Think Yes.

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.33. affordable, affordable housing, development, housing, project, urban

Community members discuss CURE’s Hidden Hands research and their own frustrations with corporate buyers at a Parkside Business & Community in Partnership (PBCIP) meeting in Camden, New Jersey. (Photo by Stephen Danley) Sponsored content from Rutgers-Camden University. Sponsored content policy We live in a world where knowledge is politically contested. For universities, this is both an existential and immediate crisis. It is an existential crisis about the future of educational institutions. But for many of us who have dedicated our careers to research, there’s an increasing need in the presen

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How fancy white paint might help Boulder prepare for sweltering summers

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.80. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, house, housing, rent, urban

Extreme heat is increasing across Colorado, even in the typically mild climate of the foothills. Boulder County has seen a surge of summer days pushing above 90 Fahrenheit in the last five years. To stay cool, the county is experimenting with a radically simple solution: paint that cools buildings. Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling (PDRC) paint looks like normal white paint, but it cools down buildings during the day without using electricity. The paint can be applied to the roofs of apartments, warehouses, mobile homes, data centers and more. It doesn’t just reflect sunlight — in some cases,

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Where the New Fiscal Federalism Hits Hardest

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.27. development, growth, homeowner, housing, rent, supply

Last month in Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed legislation capping local governments’ annual property tax revenue growth at 2 percent. The rationale was familiar: Homeowners facing rising assessments need protection. The fiscal consequence is equally familiar: Local governments, which rely on property taxes as their primary own-source revenue, now face binding constraints on their ability to fund the services those same homeowners depend on. Iowa is not an outlier. Indiana passed sweeping property tax relief legislation in 2025 that is already straining local budgets. Wyoming passed a 25 percent

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Tuesday’s Headlines Don’t Drink and Drive

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.34. bike lane, housing, project, public space, rent, transportation, urban, zone

- Drunk driving kills more than 12,000 people a year in the U.S., mostly in car-centric places with little to no public transit. Studies show that there are far fewer DUI arrests in cities where imbibers can take a train home. There is a similar effect where rideshares are readily available. ( Planetizen) - People for Bikes breaks down its position on the BUILD America 250 transportation funding bill. - Five years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act put $5 billion toward electric vehicle charging stations, only 98 have been built. (Government Technology) - While raging against dan

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