YIMBY News for 8/23

[Eric Budd]

Will This New Investor Tax-Incentive Policy Avoid Mistakes of the Past?

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 55.13. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, cities, city, community benefit, condo, construction, design, developer, development, displace, funds, gentrification, growth, home, homeowner, house, housing, housing cost, income, inequality, land, municipal, neighborhood, plan, project, properties, real estate, rent, segregate, urban, zone

Historians have meticulously documented how government policies and racial discrimination combined to result in billions of dollars invested in the creation of white-only, middle-class suburbs across the United States, while systematically denying the same investment to black people and black communities. You can read about it most recently in Richard Rot

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Is the Fight for Fair Housing Over?

CityLab

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.91. affordable, affordable housing, building, construction, density, design, development, fair housing, funds, growth, house, housing, housing cost, hud, income, land, neighborhood, project, rent, segregate, segregation, sustainable, urban, walk, zoning

Over the summer, the Trump administration has taken steps to rewrite standards on fair housing, potentially weakening federal levees against discrimination. State and local officials, along with groups devoted to racial justice and affordable housing, are lining up to defend these rules. This week, more than 100 fair housing and social justice organizatio

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Remaking Akron's Main Street

Strong Towns

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.00. apartment, bikeway, building, cities, city, construction, design, developer, development, downtown, funds, growth, home, income, mixed-use, multi-modal, neighborhood, open space, parking, plan, project, property, public space, regional, rent, resilient, sustainable, traffic, transportation, walk

As this article is being written, Akron, Ohio’s Main Street—a portion of which is also known as King James Way, in recognition of the city’s most famous native son—is populated with construction machinery, orange barrels, chain-link fencing and “Road Closed” signs. On weekdays, office workers taking their lunchtime walks watch construction workers bang aw

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Resetting The Atlanta BeltLine’s Focus on Equitable Development

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 36.94. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, building, cities, city, construction, development, displace, funds, home, housing, income, land, neighborhood, plan, preservation, project, property, real estate, redevelop, sustainability, transit

A section of the Atlanta BeltLine. (AP Photo/David Goldman) If one figure has come to loom large surrounding the development of the Atlanta BeltLine, it’s 5,600. That’s the number of affordable housing units promised at the beginning of the ambitious revitalization of former railroad rights-of-way encircling the core of the city. Related Stories

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In Praise of Dumb Boxes

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.19. apartment, building, cities, city, construction, density, design, home, house, housing, housing cost, land, municipal, neighborhood, parking, plan, rent, resilient, single-family, urban, zone, zoning

One of the more, ummm, interesting complaints about new buildings is that they are “too boxy”–as if their form is somehow foreign and boxy buildings are nonexistent in the history of the city. I find this complaint interesting because the urban morphology of this city, as with most other cities, is rooted in box-shaped buildings. The sad reality is that w

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The More We Grow, the Poorer We Become

Strong Towns

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.94. building, cities, city, construction, design, developer, development, growth, home, house, income, land, municipal, neighborhood, parcel, parking, plan, price, project, properties, property, rent, resilient, traffic, urban, zoning

Strong Towns President and Founder Chuck Marohn will be a featured speaker at the International City/County Management Association's 104th Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, September 23–26, 2018. In anticipation of the conference, this article is published in the September 2018 *Public Management* (*PM*) magazine published by the ICMA (icma.org).

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What’s Going on With Aretha Franklin’s Birth House in Memphis?

CityLab

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.50. city, developer, development, displace, downtown, funds, gentrifying, home, house, housing, housing cost, income, land, neighborhood, plan, preservation, project, property, rent

Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, died on the same date that Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, passed away: August 16. Both had a connection to Memphis—Franklin was born there, while Presley died there. Much of the focus on Franklin’s death has been on Detroit, where she lived most of her life, but Memphis is hoping that its connection to the Qu

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CityLab Daily: ‘Risky’ Playgrounds Are Making a Comeback

CityLab

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.41. cities, city, commute, design, developer, development, home, house, housing, land, neighborhood, plan, project, rent, urban

Keep up with the most pressing, interesting, and important city stories of the day. Sign up for the CityLab Daily newsletter here. *** What We’re Following *You’re grounded: *How did playgrounds get so boring? An era of fear about children’s safety has sanitized them, encouraging designers to produce standard-issue plastic swing sets and slides that mini

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