YIMBY News for 8/5

[Eric Budd]

How a Community Land Trust Brought an Indie Bookstore to Fresno’s Tower District

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 56.22. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, growth, homeowner, house, housing, housing authority, income, market-rate, mixed-use, project, real estate, rent, urban, walk, zone

[image: Economic Justice & Inclusive Finance] Inside Judging by the Cover's new location in Fresno's Tower District. (Photo courtesy Judging by the Cover) *This story was co-published with Fresnoland, a nonprofit newsroom that exists to make policy public – by, for, and with all residents of the central San Joaquin Valley.* It was Ashley Mireles-Guerrero’s dream to open a bookstore in the Tower District, the neighborhood where she lives in Fresno, California. That dream came true in July, when her bookstore, Judging By The Cover, moved in as the first commercial tenant of South Tower Community

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The truth about rent control

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 54.64. affordable, apartment, construction, homeowner, house, housing, housing cost, housing stock, income, market-rate, rent, rent control, rent-control, renter, single-family, supply, zoning

[image: an illustration of a person within a small house silhouette, reinforcing the roof with their hand. A man is peering down at her from above. Several other house shapes are floating in the abstract space surrounding.] As homeownership slips further out of reach in America, more people are spending more of their lives as renters. Millennials and Gen Zs are less likely to own homes than older generations did at the same age, and the median age of a first-time homebuyer recently reached an all-time high of 40, up from 28 in 1991. That need not be a bad thing. Renting offers many benefits —

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Issaquah Breaks Ground on Affordable Housing Project Ten Years in the Making

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 41.06. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, housing, housing authority, income, market-rate, project, rent, transit center, transit-oriented, urban

[image: Issaquah Breaks Ground on Affordable Housing Project Ten Years in the Making] The City of Issaquah and the King County Housing Authority broke ground last week on a transit-oriented development project that will bring 154 affordable homes next door to the Issaquah Transit Center. The dirt-tossing ceremony was a long time in the making, with the idea of building affordable housing on the site first advanced by Issaquah officials in 2016, who had to push back the estimated start of construction numerous times over the intervening decade. Trailhead Apartments, as the project is now called

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North Carolina Finds a Consensus Issue in Parking Reform

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.94. affordable, construction, cost of housing, development, house, housing, housing cost, parking, parking lot, preservation, project, rent, urban, zoning

In Brief: North Carolina adopted a new law preventing cities from imposing minimum parking requirements in new development projects. The law is meant to help reduce housing costs while preventing environmental harms. The bill had broad bipartisan support in the state legislature, and won the backing of a unique coalition of advocacy groups. Parking proved to be the issue that could bring North Carolina together. Last month, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein, a Democrat, signed a new parking reform bill that had been passed nearly unanimously by the Republican-controlled state legislature. The law

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Op-Ed: Sound Transit Gave Us a Ballard Date. Here’s How To Accelerate It.

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.64. construction, downtown, house, infill, project, rent, urban

[image: Op-Ed: Sound Transit Gave Us a Ballard Date. Here’s How To Accelerate It.] Seattle Subway was founded in 2011 to fight for the entire Sound Transit 3 (ST3) plan to open before 2040. Today, we’re joined by the *Save Ballard Rail coalition* in the fight to deliver light rail to Ballard in the 2030s. Our first request was transparency: together with the community, we called on Sound Transit's Board to give the public a status-quo date for Ballard rail based on current finances and cost estimates. We’re grateful the Board heard us and directed the agency to do just that. Last Friday, Sound

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Here’s how the Broncos stadium (and beyond) in Burnham Yard could look

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.81. development, housing, parking, parking lot, project, rent, urban, walk

The Denver Broncos on Tuesday published early illustrations of the team’s proposed new stadium and development at Burnham Yard. Last year, the Broncos identified Burnham Yard, the vacant former railyard in La Alma Lincoln Park, as their first choice for a new stadium, paying about $46 million to secure the 58-acre property. New renderings show the property split into five distinct areas: the stadium and four different districts called South End, Turntable, Village Center and North End. In addition to the stadium, the Denver Broncos plan for five different districts — South End, Turntable, Vill

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Wednesday’s Headlines Flock Together

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.41. growth, housing, parking, parking garage, transit center, transportation, walk

- Flock license plate readers are useful in enforcing traffic laws, but they can also be traffic safety hazards. Some cameras are just a couple of feet from the road, perched atop black metal poles that are hard to see and a lack a breakaway plate allowing them to easily snap when hit by a car. And they’re rarely inspected by city or state transportation officials. (The Guardian) - Transit agencies are boosting their own ridership by developing land around stations, which has the added benefit of creating more housing where residents don’t need expensive cars. (Metro Magazine) - The Trump admi

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