YIMBY News for 6/29

[Eric Budd]

533 luxury apartments open in Jefferson Park. Ten Denver teachers will get free rent

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.86. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, condo, development, gentrification, house, housing, housing crisis, income, market-rate, project, rent, single-family, supply, walk

Less than a decade ago, quaint single-family homes sat on the Northside block of 26th Avenue and Alcott Street in Denver’s working-class Jefferson Park neighborhood. It was the sort of community where a teacher could afford to live. Across town, Denver property values were rising fast. The Latino Northside community was being rebranded as “the Highlands,” as dense luxury apartments, duplexes and condos rose. Through the change, longtime neighbors, including many Latino families, were priced out. More white and wealthier individuals moved in. Former Coloado Poet Laureate Bobby LeFebre wrote an

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What the Supreme Court Doesn’t Get About Homelessness

The Atlantic

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.78. affordable, affordable housing, development, house, housing, housing crisis, income, rent, renter, segregation, supply, urban

The Supreme Court has just ripped away one of the rare shreds of legal protections available to homeless people. In a 6–3 ruling, the Court has decided that the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, did not violate the Eighth Amendment by enforcing camping bans against its involuntarily unsheltered residents. The ruling epitomizes why housing has become a crisis in so much of the country: It does nothing to make communities confront their role in causing a housing shortage, and it upholds their ability to inflict pain upon that shortage’s victims. This ruling overturned the Ninth Circuit Court of Appea

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Op-Ed: WSDOT Must Keep SR 520 Trail Tunnel in Roanoke Lid

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.78. bike lane, construction, growth, house, mobility, multimodal, parking, project, transportation, urban, walk, zone

WSDOT is scrapping the planned SR 520 bike and pedestrian tunnel, forcing people who travel outside cars into dangerous territory. As construction on SR 520 continues, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is cutting costs at the direction of the state legislature. The first casualty: a previously designed, hard-won bike and pedestrian thoroughfare known as the Harvard Connection, which links the new lid park and SR 520 trail to a popular bike route on Harvard Avenue. The trail and tunnel would create a safe, comfortable, and accessible multimodal transportation connection.

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What a big new Supreme Court decision could mean for homeless Americans

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.63. downtown, homeowner, house, housing, public space, rent, walk, zone

The Supreme Court has issued its long-awaited ruling in *Grants Pass v. Johnson*, the most significant legal challenge to the rights of homeless people in decades. In a 6-3 decision written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court ruled that cities enforcing anti-camping bans, even if homeless people have no other place to go, does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Gorsuch was joined by the rest of the court’s conservatives, including Chief Justice John Roberts. “The Constitution’s Eighth Amendment serves many important functions, but it does not

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How the Supreme Court’s ruling on camping bans affects (or doesn’t) Denver and Aurora’s homelessness policies

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.19. house, housing, rent, urban, zone

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that cities can arrest and ticket people sleeping outdoors, even without an offer of shelter. Some advocates fear the decision, Grants Pass vs. Johnson, will give cities an unfettered ability to use law enforcement to push people experiencing homelessness around while further destabilizing their lives and failing to help them find homes. “People’s rights, including houseless people’s right to exist in public, are being continuously stripped away by a right wing, and outright fascist, Supreme Court, and Grants Pass is just the latest example in this disturbing tre

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Boulder County-area cone zones for July 1-7

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.36. bike lane, bus stop, construction, mobility, multimodal, parking, parking lot, project, rent, transportation, walk, zone

Boulder • 28th Street improvements — Pearl to Iris. This project will improve multimodal travel along 28th Street from Pearl to Iris. Northbound 28th and Valmont Road RTD Stop #17992 serving 205 and BOLT routes will be temporarily relocated to just south of the Valmont intersection until Dec. 31. • 19th Street and Fourmile Canyon Creek Underpass: Crews will begin replacing the bridge over Fourmile Canyon Creek and construct a bike/pedestrian underpass. During construction at all times, seven days a week, 19th Street will be closed to northbound vehicles, bikes and RTD bus service at Sumac Aven

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Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside

Denver Post Politics

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.66. development, housing, income, public space, rent, walk

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court decided on Friday that cities can enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outdoors, even in West Coast areas where shelter space is lacking. The case is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live. In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the high court reversed a ruling by a San Francisco-based appeals court that found outdoor sleeping bans amount to cruel and unusual punishment. The majority found that the Eighth Amendment prohibition

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