YIMBY News for 10/7

[Eric Budd]

What If More Community Land Trusts Made Friends With Banks?

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 51.22. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, growth, homeowner, house, housing, housing cooperative, income, project, real estate, rent, single-family, urban

[image: The Bottom Line] A home on Chatsworth Avenue, part of City of Bridges Community Land Trust's portfolio. (Photo courtesy City of Bridges CLT) Every Wednesday at 2 p.m., Julie Nigro has a phone call with First Commonwealth Bank to check in about her development pipeline. Nigro is director of real estate at City of Bridges Community Land Trust — named after one of the nicknames for Pittsburgh, which may or may not have more bridges than any other city in the world. Since inception in 2019, City of Bridges Community Land Trust has sold 43 homes, a mix of new builds and rehabilitations. Ano

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Louisville officials could oppose development ballot measures

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.81. affordable, affordable housing, comprehensive plan, development, downtown, growth, housing, impact fee, land-use, project, public space, rent, transportation, zoning

Louisville City Council is scheduled Tuesday to consider a set of resolutions that, if passed, would formalize the board’s opposition to a pair of ballot initiatives related to zoning, affordable housing and impact fees. Meanwhile, a group organized in opposition to the ballot initiatives said Monday that AdventHealth Avista has joined in its call for voters to reject the measures. After gathering more than the required number of signatures and withstanding a protest brought forth by opponents, Love4Louisville, the organizers of the initiatives that are referred to as Ballot Questions 300 and

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Redmond Supportive Housing Project Breaks Ground After Kenmore’s Rejection

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.66. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, downtown, housing, infill, parking, project, transit-oriented, urban

Plymouth Housing celebrated breaking ground on 100 units of permanent supportive housing in Downtown Redmond last week, marking a pivotal moment for a project that has faced a long line of barriers to getting shovels in the ground. Located at 16725 Cleveland Street, steps from Downtown Redmond’s light rail station, Plymouth’s new building will be tailored for individuals exiting homelessness with 85 studio and 15 one-bedroom units. This will be Plymouth’s second building on the Eastside, after Bellevue’s Plymouth Crossing, which opened two years ago. The project started life in Kenmore, after

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The Only Certainty in Government: Uncertainty

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.22. growth, house, housing, project, rent

Much of the coverage about the concerns that beset states and localities tends to focus on specific areas like budgetary shortfalls, the need for better technology and a shortage of people to fill many vital positions (where have all the accountants gone?) But increasingly in conversations we’re having about all these topics and more, the problem that seems to keep our sources awake at night can be expressed in a single word: “uncertainty.” “Uncertainty is not generally welcome when you have to maintain ongoing services to members of your community or have projects that need to be built,” Emil

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