YIMBY News for 7/16

[Eric Budd]

How Zoning Stands in the Way of Affordable Elder Care

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.52. affordable, apartment, homeowner, housing, income, project, rent, urban, zone, zoning

Every day in the United States, roughly 10,000 people turn 65. A significant share will eventually need help with daily tasks — bathing, medication management, getting around. When that day comes, where they will live is one of the most consequential decisions their families face. For most families, that decision depends less on what they want than on what their state's policy environment makes possible. The family that could keep a parent home with modest support can't — because that support isn't funded. The family that could share a home with an aging parent can't — because local zoning pro

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Democrats Push For High-Speed Rail Investment Amid GOP Highway Feeding Frenzy

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.50. affordable, affordable housing, development, growth, house, housing, project, rent, supply, transit-oriented, transportation

The federal government would be required to set aside a portion of future transportation funding for high-speed rail under a new Congressional bill aimed at countering a Republican-led bid to just keep building highways. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) has re-introduced the American High-Speed Rail Act, which authorizes $205 billion over five years to boost high-speed rail and, most important, would make funding for high-speed rail development automatic rather than subject to normal annual appropriations. “America deserves the same world-class high-speed rail system that other countries have had n

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Here’s how to get help if you were impacted by the Aspen Acres fire

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.30. growth, homeowner, house, housing, rent, renter

While crews are making progress on some areas of the Aspen Acres fire south of Pueblo, the fire continues to grow as firefighters face persistent hot and dry conditions this week. Thousands of residents have been evacuated from the fire’s path, with at least 3,000 still unable to return home weeks later. State and local officials are offering resources for evacuees, ranging from emergency food and toiletries to housing, financial assistance and pet care. To get federal disaster aid through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Aspen Acres fire would need a major disaster declaration app

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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back for Solitary Reforms in California

BOLTSmag

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.08. downtown, housing, segregation

In California, survivors of solitary confinement who have spent years trying to seriously limit the practice are facing yet another setback as state prison officials unwind the minor reforms made in recent years. Those reforms, which had reduced the number of rule violations that could make someone eligible for isolation and increased out-of-cell time for people in solitary, were part of a compromise Governor Gavin Newsom proposed after his 2022 veto of the Mandela Act, which state lawmakers had passed to bring solitary practices within international humanitarian guidelines. In his veto messag

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Where Have Honolulu’s Bikis Gone?

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.70. apartment, bus stop, downtown, rent, supply, transportation, urban, walk

A Biki on the Ala Moana Beach Park Shared-Use Path. (Photo courtesy Biki) *This story was originally published by Honolulu Civil Beat and distributed through a partnership with The Associated Press.* When Honolulu’s bike-share system Biki launched in nearly a decade ago, it promised to bring Hawaiʻi a transportation method that had seen success in places like New York City, Boston and Miami. Residents and tourists could get around urban Honolulu by renting a bike for cheap from one of over a hundred stations and returning it somewhere else. In its first year, Biki was such a success that opera

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In Bid To Speed Buses, Mamdani Hopes To Go Where No Mayor Has Gone Before

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.64. bus rapid transit, bus route, bus stop, parking, project, rent, transportation, walk

Mayor Mamdani’s big plan to speed up buses relies on him not repeating the mistakes of his predecessors who talked an eerily similarly big game … and failed dramatically, spectacularly and most of all, politically. Promises, promises, promises. But bus riders are still waiting. The latest $850-million plan to speed our slowest-in-the-entire-nation buses is built on bold promises, including speed upgrades on 50 priority corridors carrying 25 of the slowest bus routes in the city; the creation of a real-deal bus rapid transit system; better management of bus maintenance and dispatching; and all-

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