YIMBY News for 7/4

[Eric Budd]

New workforce housing and creative space opens in Mancos

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.78. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, downtown, house, housing, income, occupancy, preservation, project, real estate, rent, walk, zoning

[image: A brand news building] A gleaming two-story glass and steel structure opened in mid-May in downtown Mancos, a town of 1,200 in southwest Colorado between Durango and Cortez. The new building, known as Mancos Commons, is set back from Grand Avenue, the town’s main street. But it’s easy to spot in contrast to the century-old buildings all around. The brick Mancos Opera House was built directly across the street when William Howard Taft was president in 1910. Two doors east sits the recently renovated Columbine Bar, also established in 1910 and one of the state’s oldest, longest-running w

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You Can’t Arrest a Housing Shortage: Why Anti-Homelessness Laws Don’t Work

Strong Towns

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KEYWORD SCORE: 35.72. affordable, affordable housing, development, downtown, house, housing, income, public space, rent, urban, walk, zoning

*I used to live in the “Meanest City in America.”* That label is what the National Coalition for the Homeless bestowed on Sarasota, Florida, back in 2006. This was in response to a perceived culture of aggressive criminalization of those living on the city’s streets, including a citywide ban on camping on public property. In 2011, Sarasota drew national headlines for removing all of the benches from its central downtown park in an explicit effort to drive away homeless people who congregated there. (It worked, sort of; it also, predictably, drove away everyone else.) In 2012, a man was arreste

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Seattle City Council Rejects Bid for Larger Transportation Levy

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.98. affordable, bike lane, housing, project, public space, transportation, urban, vision zero, walk, zone

Next week, council is set to put a $1.55 billion levy on the ballot, after a push to go bigger failed to gain traction. The final size of Seattle’s next transportation levy was set Tuesday by a Seattle City Council committee, with nearly all councilmembers supporting a $1.55 billion package, but all but two rejecting the idea of going any further. Major additional amendments aren’t expected at next week’s final vote as the proposal heads toward a November vote, following two months of council deliberations to arrive at this point. This proposed property tax levy represents the first major piec

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How to move a hospital 

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.69. homeowner, house, housing, hud, parking, project, rent, supply, walk, zone

------------------------------ Howdy, Colorado, and welcome to a holiday-week edition of The Temperature, where this week we are covering the whos, whats, whens, wheres, whys, hows and cows of health and climate news. Here’s a fun if obvious fact: We are in peak season for fireworks injuries. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, two-thirds of all fireworks injuries in the United States last year occurred in the weeks surrounding July Fourth. Last year also saw 9,700 people treated in emergency rooms for fireworks injuries and eight deaths. We say this not to put a damper on you

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Lafayette seeks grant to help meet affordable housing goals

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.13. affordable, affordable housing, development, housing, housing stock, occupancy, project, rent

The Lafayette City Council has unanimously approved filing for a grant to help increase the city’s affordable housing stock to meet state and regional goals. The funds sought by the city are offered through the Local Planning Capacity Grant Fund Program by the Colorado Department of Local Affairs. Long Range Planning Manager Phil Kleisler said Lafayette currently has approximately 750 affordable units, prior to Willoughby Corner opening. The city needs approximately 1,000 more to meet the Boulder County-wide goal of having 12% of the city’s housing stock be affordable by 2035. Kleiser said tha

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