YIMBY News for 6/19

[Eric Budd]

Friday’s Headlines Celebrate Juneteenth

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.16. bike lane, development, housing, housing cost, project, rent, transit-oriented, transportation, urban, walk, yimby, zone

*Streetsblog USA will be off today for the Juneteenth holiday. See you all Monday!* - Building transit projects is far more expensive in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world. Slow Boring put together a playbook to address procurement, red tape and other causes. California YIMBY recently addressed similar issues — such as artificial budget constraints, the collapse of local news and the public’s failure to hold leaders accountable — as exemplified by a Los Angeles subway line that took 46 years to build (L.A. Times). - Wildlife crossings in Appalachian states reduce car crashes involving an

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Aurora’s mayor sleeps in the city’s homeless shelter. It ‘shifted’ his view

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.16. construction, growth, house, housing, project, rent

Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman is trying again to understand the experience of homelessness — this time by spending every Friday night for five months and counting sleeping on a cot at a city-funded, nonprofit-run hotel shelter. Coffman was instrumental in the creation of the 600-bed Aurora Regional Navigation Center at a former Crowne Plaza hotel. It’s funded by the state and local governments and run by Advance Pathways, a nonprofit for which Coffman is a board member. A few months after opening, the navigation center came under fire over bad plumbing, noxious odors, sickness and Advance Pathways

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