YIMBY News for 5/22

[Eric Budd]

The Value of Concentrating Neighborhood Investment

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 41.16. development, growth, homeowner, house, housing, housing and urban development, housing authority, income, mobility, preservation, urban, walk, zone

In his State of the City address in March, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens outlined one of the country’s most comprehensive — and, per capita, largest — neighborhood redevelopment plans. The Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative, which includes mixed-income housing along with parks, trails, transit, schools, grocery stores and health centers, would channel more than $5 billion toward a selection of underinvested neighborhoods. I asked Dickens recently about his plan to concentrate redevelopment in seven target neighborhoods and what it meant as a political and economic strategy. He replied succinct

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Spirit’s Shutdown Exposes America’s Fragile Affordable Travel System

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.41. affordable, house, income, mobility, multimodal, project, transportation

The shutdown of Spirit Airlines didn’t just ground flights. It exposed a deeper weakness in America’s transportation system: tens of millions of people rely on affordable travel, and we still don’t provide enough of it. For students, workers, and families, low-cost travel isn’t a luxury. It is what keeps them connected to education, jobs, loved ones, and opportunity. When a carrier built around affordability disappears, the impact lands hardest on those with the fewest alternatives. The lesson from the Spirit demise isn’t that affordable travel is fragile. It’s that we have not built a system

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