YIMBY News for 6/1

[Eric Budd]

What’s Working: Saving Jamestown’s historic Mercantile, where everybody knows your name

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.05. affordable, apartment, condo, construction, development, house, project, real estate, rent, renter, single-family, supply, walk

------------------------------ [image: A graphic showing how much the ingredients in a burger have increased]Rainbow Shultz is the chef-owner of the Jamestown Mercantile Cafe. The Merc’s home, built sometime around 1896, according to History Colorado, is on the market for $1.5 million, and Shultz has created a nonprofit that on May 1 was given an exclusive right to purchase it. She says the beloved space helps anchor the small community of 300 where everybody knows everyone’s name. (Tracy Ross, The Colorado Sun) *Tracy Ross* *Reporter* ------------------------------ *JAMESTOWN* — “All we need

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How to screw up universal childcare

Vox - Politics

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.30. affordable, development, growth, income, project, rent, supply, zoning

[image: an illustration of dozens of children in a spiral formation playing musical chairs, with only five available chairs] After decades of families performing small miracles to afford childcare and sitting for years on waitlists, politicians are finally treating early childhood education like the essential economic infrastructure it is. | Celia Jacobs for Vox After decades of families performing small miracles to afford childcare and sitting for years on waitlists, politicians are finally treating early childhood education like the essential economic infrastructure it is. Around the country

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Monday’s Headlines Are in the Zone

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.84. bus pass, development, house, housing, project, walk, zone

- New research shows that building more housing near existing jobs, stores and transit generates more tax revenue and reduces infrastructure costs, saving taxpayers money. (Pew) - Another new study found that development patterns are at least partly responsible for the high number of traffic deaths in the U.S. It recommends mixing households and businesses instead of putting commercial uses along dangerous arterial roads. (CNU Public Square) - Climate Town explains that the U.S. actually has an extensive rail system, but most tracks are old, slow and owned by freight companies, so they’re unsu

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