YIMBY News for 7/3

[Eric Budd]

Resident Services Are a High-Yield Investment in Affordable Housing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 39.33. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, development, house, housing, housing cost, income, mobility, preservation, rent, renter, urban

The Sapling Grove Apartments, an affordable housing complex, in Aurora, Colorado. (Photo by Thomas Peipert / AP) America’s affordable housing system is under extraordinary strain as property owners navigate compounding operating costs and residents face heightened economic pressures. In this environment, owners, lenders and investors need solutions that strengthen both resident stability and property performance. New research from Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (SAHF) and Abt Global, with support from the Capital One Insights Center and other industry partners, points to one sol

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NYC’s ‘Trash Revolution’ Moves Tiny Step Closer To What Europe Has Been Doing For Decades

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.05. apartment, downtown, house, housing, housing stock, walk

Sharing is caring. The city will allow smaller buildings to share curbside trash containers rather than rely on wheelie bins clogging up the sidewalk, marking a small but promising policy change that brings the Big Apple’s waste reforms closer to best practices common in Europe and Latin America. The Department of Sanitation previously restricted its “Empire Bins” to one building at a time, and only to those with 10 or more units when it rolled out its so-called Trash Revolution in last year — but now smaller housing stock in parts of Brooklyn will be able to get the roadway bins, and share th

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Why wages matter; why the minimum wage matters, to Oregon

City Observatory

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.27. house, housing, income, rent

*Governor Tina Kotek is right to celebrate Oregon’s increased minimum wage: Minimum wages, not tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy, are what matter to prosperity.* *Minimum wages make low wage workers better off in Oregon. Thanks in major part to the state’s minimum wage, Oregon’s low wage workers make about ten percent more per hour than low wage workers around the United states. * *“Business friendly” = worker hostile. Low wage Oregon workers make about 16 percent more per hour than low wage workers in “business friendly” states. Compared to the wages paid to low wage workers in these bu

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