YIMBY News for 4/15

[Eric Budd]

Disability Rates Are Rising. Are Paratransit Services Ready?

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.77. affordable, bus route, bus stop, development, downtown, housing, mobility, rent, supply, transit center, transportation, urban, zone

LexTrans' Wheels paratransit service has seen performance improvements since expanding its fleet. (Photo by Anabel Peterman) *This story was produced as part of Next City’s joint **Equitable Cities Reporting Fellowship for Rural-Urban Issues** with **Kentucky’s **CivicLex* *.* For decades, Mary Evans has lived with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS. The risk of fainting from the blood circulation disorder, alongside her other autoimmune conditions, makes it unsafe for her to drive. So to get to and from work every day, she relies on Wheels, the paratransit service run by the l

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Why Are Federal Regulators Trying To Take Away This Credit Union?

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.06. development, house, housing, income, rent, urban

Little Rock, Arkansas, where People Trust Community Federal Credit Union is based. (Photo by Brad Sims / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) As the owner of House of Hype urban streetwear boutique in Little Rock, Arkansas, Brandon Bell wants what every small business owner wants from their bank: an institution that believes in him and in his business, even when his own belief wavers. About a year ago, Bell says, he was struggling in his business and on the verge of giving it up. His bank at the time, a large regional institution, hadn’t been much help. Then Bell became one of 1,800 members at People Trust Commun

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Free Public Transit Is Good. Free and Accessible Is Even Better.

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.20. bike lane, bus stop, house, income, mobility, parking, rent, transportation, urban

(Photo by Osarugue Igbinoba / Unsplash) Free buses are a hot topic right now, in media and campaigns across the country, and for good reason. They solve a lot of unexpected problems, from reducing disabling violence against transit workers to ending cycles of incarceration for low-and-no-income families. Buses are a critical public service that deserves our investment, like public libraries. They are also great for disabled people like us, many of whom see buses as a lifeline with consistent access, and for whom cash is much tighter due the high costs of medications, mobility aids and accommod

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Where the Hottest Blocks in Your City Are — And How To Cool Them Down

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.08. bike lane, bus stop, house, parking, parking lot, rent, transportation, walk

A breakthrough new tool will help cities pinpoint their hottest streets during heat waves and find ways to cool them down — and hopefully, keep people walking, biking, and waiting for the bus even on the most sweltering days. Last month, the World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Cities launched an online resource known as the Cool Cities Lab aimed at helping communities not just to decrease temperatures citywide, but to increase “thermal comfort” in the hyper-specific places where extreme heat takes the greatest toll. Currently piloted in 20 cities around the world but accepting mor

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Wednesday’s Headlines Hop on Board Carefully

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.50. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, bike lane, bus stop, housing, transportation, urban, walk

- While buses are an extremely safe mode of transportation, getting to and from the bus stop is not. Pedestrians are five times more likely to be hit by drivers while walking to a transit stop than crossing an intersection. (Smart Cities Dive) - How many people can drive five or six hours without stopping? Between better batteries and faster charging stations, range anxiety will soon be a thing of the past. (Heatmap) - “Right to charge” laws make own an electric vehicle easier by preventing HOAs from banning chargers (Yale Climate Connections). But EV charging and affordable housing are coming

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Denver could turn old CDLE office into Cap Hill housing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.25. affordable, affordable housing, bus rapid transit, housing, real estate, rent, walk

The city of Denver plans to buy a former Colorado state office in Capitol Hill for $4.5 million and use the property for affordable housing. The building at 251 E. 12th Ave. has been vacant for several years after the state downsized its office space for the department. The building once hosted part of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. City officials say they have a deal prepared to buy the property from the state. But they haven’t decided exactly how to use the building. The deal requires approval from the Denver City Council. [image: The corner of a boxy white and beige buildi

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The High Cost of Hiding: Why IBR’s Delayed Revenue Study is a $15 Billion Warning Sign

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.19. construction, development, growth, project, rent, transportation

*The Interstate Bridge Project is hiding its toll revenue study—which will show that tolls will have to be higher and provide less revenue for the $15 billion project. They’re delaying this bad news to get officials to move forward with project approval, and plan to stick us with the bill later on.* - *IBR officials have told Oregon and Washington legislators that the project’s Investment Grade Analysis (IGA)—a rigorous, independent estimate of future toll traffic and revenues—will be delayed by more than a year, to June 2027.* - *According to the project’s own December 2024 schedule, the key

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