YIMBY News for 7/6

[Eric Budd]

Here’s what’s next for those Aurora apartments at the center of Trump’s Venezuelan gang takeover claims

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.36. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, development, house, housing, income, parking, parking lot, project, real estate, rent, renter, walk

In 2024, the residents of the Edge at Lowry found themselves at the center of the presidential election as then-candidate Donald Trump claimed that a Venezuelan prison gang had taken over the apartment buildings in Aurora. Now, the red brick buildings have been vacant for more than a year. But new life could soon be coming to the complex. A coalition of neighborhood activists known as the East Colfax Community Collective, which once supported the buildings’ tenants, has now bought the notorious property from its disgraced previous owner, CBZ Management. Members of the East Colfax Community Col

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Op-Ed: Why Spokane Needs to Keep Its Transit Momentum

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.77. bus rapid transit, bus route, downtown, house, housing, parking, transportation, urban, walk, zoning

[image: Op-Ed: Why Spokane Needs to Keep Its Transit Momentum] The secret is out about Spokane. The New York Times *has covered* the thousands of people moving to the Lilac City. As the home of the largest urban waterfall in the U.S., *a metal goat that eats your trash*, the only Chili’s in Washington State (outside of Sea-Tac), a great advocacy community led by Spokane Reimagined, and plenty of warm, welcoming folks, Spokane has a lot to offer. Urbanist readers may know Spokane for *getting rid of parking mandates* and for *allowing for more missing middle housing* before *House Bill 1110* pa

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Monday’s Headlines Enjoyed the Fireworks

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.59. affordable, bike lane, bus rapid transit, condo, downtown, homeowner, house, mobility, parking, parking garage, project, transportation, urban, vision zero, walk, zone

- A new paper by professors from Brandeis and Cornell predicts that autonomous vehicles, if widely adopted, will increase congestion, create more sprawl and cut into transit ridership (Changing Lanes). There are also potential benefits, but those are not guaranteed, according to the Eno Center for Transportation. - Further proof that AVs aren’t ready for prime time came recently when a Texas man was charged with manslaughter after his Tesla on autopilot crashed into a house and killed a woman (New York Times). - Local police in Georgia are helping ICE by pulling over “work vans” that carry imm

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A Guide for Cities Navigating SNAP Cuts

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.48. development, house, housing, income, rent, supply

In Brief: Millions of Americans will lose food stamp benefits as a result of changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Cities will experience a range of impacts as a consequence of increased food insecurity. The Food Research and Action Center has published a playbook to help cities manage these impacts. Here’s an equation to balance: The U.S. discards an estimated $218 billion worth of food each year, 40 percent of the food supply. At the same time, more than 11 million households and nearly 14 million children don’t have enough food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Prog

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