YIMBY News for 7/15

[Eric Budd]

Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Sustainable Urban Design

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.83. affordable, bike lane, construction, density, development, house, housing, parking, rent, transportation, urban, walk

Whether they’re debating the best design of a bike lane or sweating the details of a sidewalk, sustainable transportation advocates often have an obsessive knowledge of the street realm. But what about, well, everything beyond it? In his new book, “The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook,” Nico Larco and his co-author Kaarin Knudson hand advocates and professionals a “magic decoder ring” to understand how green, equitable, human-scaled transportation systems fit into the greater puzzle of the built environment, and how we can better use urban design principles to accomplish a vast range of susta

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Federal and State Programs Can’t Fix the Housing Crisis, but Local Action Can

Strong Towns

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.80. affordable, affordable housing, construction, homeowner, house, housing, housing cost, housing crisis, housing price, income, project, rent, supply

*This week in my home state of Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz announced a new program to help first-generation homebuyers purchase a house.* If you and your parents never owned a home or lost the home you owned to foreclosure, you are eligible for up to $35,000 from the state for a down payment and closing costs. The state anticipates helping 1,500 families through this program on a first-come-first-served basis. While visiting Minnesota last month, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who is the former chair of the Federal Reserve, announced a new program to provide $100 million over the next three

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Urban Farms Are a Lifeline For Food-Insecure Residents. Will New Jersey Finally Take Them Seriously?

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.72. affordable, density, gentrification, house, housing, income, rent, segregation, supply, urban, zoning

[image: Members of the Urban Agriculture Cooperative load distribution bags onto a pickup truck at their warehouse in Irvington, New Jersey in June 2024. (Photo by Nikki VIllafane)] *This story was co-published part with The Jersey Bee as part of our joint Equitable Cities Reporting Fellowship, examining segregation in Newark and Essex County, New Jersey.* In Montclair’s Third Ward is a tiny farm with big community value. In the summertime, Montclair Community Farms transforms its less-than-10,000-square-foot lot into a space with something for everyone: a garden education program for children

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The battle of Wright’s Mesa

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.19. development, house, housing, nimby, project, urban, zone

[image: Colorado Sunday issue No. 143: "The battle of Wright's Mesa"] Happy Colorado Sunday, friends. I was in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago to help judge a business writing contest. It’s fun to hang out with national colleagues for a day. But the real gift is in the required reading, a kind of crash course in the ways crucial issues are being reported in communities across the country. A theme or two always emerges, and this year it was the hard task of transitioning to cleaner electricity. No matter where the reporting came from, the issues were the same: Communities understand wind and

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Recycling can feel pointless. Here are Colorado companies changing that. 

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.75. construction, development, house, project, rent, supply, transportation

[image: A person with curly hair is sorting through items on high shelves in a storage area filled with rows of plastic-wrapped packages.] When a local mattress recycler said it was in a bind because its California buyer stopped accepting old mattress foam to turn into new carpet padding, we wondered: Why are they shipping tons of foam to California for recycling? Answer: No one in Colorado processes that used material in bulk. That’s common for a wide variety of materials that consumers toss in their recycle bins. While processing used glass is being handled in state, glass is the exception.

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