YIMBY News for 11/14

[Eric Budd]

Progressives Win in Seattle, Changing Directions on Public Safety

BOLTSmag

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.27. affordable, affordable housing, downtown, housing, income, rent, walk, zone

In Seattle last week, voters shifted the political landscape toward the left. Progressive candidates swept the three city council seats on the ballot, growing their presence from one to three on the nine-member body. In the election for city attorney, Democratic challenger Erika Evans beat Republican incumbent Ann Davison, who’d pursued punitive measures during her first term, in a landslide. And in the most closely-watched race, Mayor Bruce Harrell lost his bid for a second term against progressive challenger Katie Wilson. The race came down to the wire, with Wilson, a community organizer and

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Does Shuttering a School Impact Neighborhood Violence?

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.14. apartment, gentrification, house, housing, income, parking, parking lot, project, rent, urban

View from the street outside Fairhill Elementary School. The building has been empty since 2013. (Photo by Melissa Simpson) *This story was originally reported and published by MindSite News, a nonprofit news site that reports on mental health. Sign up for the MindSite New Daily newsletter.* KIPP North Philadelphia Academy charter school has been operating since 2018 in the red brick school building on North 16th Street at Cumberland Street. Bright KIPP banners hang off the four-story building but you can still see the fading letters “M Hall Stanton” on the facade. That’s because KIPP only mov

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Why owning a house is overrated

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.33. homeowner, house, housing, rent, renter, urban

[image: A black FOR SALE sign looms in from its position on the lawn of a large white suburban house.] A “For Sale” sign in front of a house in a Houston, Texas, neighborhood. | Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images Jerusalem Demsas, editor-in-chief of The Argument, has a hot take when it comes to our housing woes: “Homeownership is overrated.” That’s a particularly bold perspective when you take into account that 70 percent of Americans think owning a home is a key part of achieving the American dream. Demsas argues that our homeownership society is not all it’s cracked up to be, and

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Washington Cities Question Use of License Plate Readers Citing Federal Overreach

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.25. housing, housing authority, project, rent, urban

An October surveillance report has been creating waves in law enforcement agencies using automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) in Washington state, including Lynnwood, Redmond, and Stanwood. Law enforcement agencies across the state have been purchasing Flock Safety ALPRs, which the company claims will “stop crime in its tracks.” The University of Washington’s (UW) Center for Human Rights’ report highlighted Flock Safety surveillance data being exposed by local law enforcement agencies in order to assist in federal immigration enforcement. In May, *404 Media* originally broke the news that F

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Why It Took So Long to Call Seattle’s Mayoral Race

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.73. homeowner, housing, rent, renter, transportation

In Brief: Katie Wilson was declared winner in the Seattle mayor’s race after the vote shifted in her favor over the last week. Seattle’s all-mail election system often results in more progressive candidates gaining ground in the days after the election. Seattle voters haven’t re-elected a mayor since 2005. By now it’s clear that Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle. As of Wednesday evening, when the Seattle Times called the race, Wilson had garnered 138,489 votes, a 1,976 vote lead over her opponent, Bruce Harrell, the first-term incumbent. Anything less than a 2,000-vote lead trigge

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