YIMBY News for 10/15

[Eric Budd]

Op-Ed: Why Seattle’s Housing Future Depends on You

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.02. affordable, comprehensive plan, construction, development, growth, housing, housing crisis, nimby, supply, transportation, urban, walk, yimby, zoning

Join the rally and mega-canvass this Sunday for Seattle’s urbanist slate of candidates. On Sunday, October 19, The Urbanist and Tech4Housing are hosting a mega-canvass in Columbia City for a slate of candidates who represent what Seattle needs right now: progressives who understand that housing abundance, reliable transit, and access to amenities within a 15-minute walk are not luxuries. They’re necessities. Seattle City Council candidates Alexis Mercedes Rinck, Dionne Foster, and Eddie Lin, City Attorney candidate Erika Evans, and mayoral candidate Katie Wilson will host a rally together befo

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Your Town’s Future Is Being Decided Without You. I Know, Because I’m in the Room.

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 37.30. development, homeowner, house, housing, income, land-use, nimby, rent, renter, segregate, transportation, urban, zoning

New Haven City Hall and County Courthouse. (Photo by ajay_suresh / CC BY 2.0 ) As an elected land use commissioner in South Windsor, Connecticut, I’m not surprised by recent findings on land use boards in my state. Research from the Housing Collective, a nonprofit based here in Connecticut, shows that in Fairfield and New London Counties, more than 90% of land use board members are white. Most are men, the median age falls between 60 and 65, and the vast majority are homeowners. Missing from these boards are renters, younger residents, and families of color, the very groups most affected by ou

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Op-Ed: Seattle’s MFTE Program 7 Widens Access and Participation

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 36.13. affordable, apartment, development, house, housing, housing crisis, income, market-rate, project, rent, renter, urban

Seattle’s update to the Multifamily Tax Exemption would increase the program’s inclusivity and expand access to a wider pool of renters. In Seattle, most strongly agree that our ongoing housing crisis is an ‘all hands on deck’ scenario that means embracing a wide range of creative tools to help us build more housing at all income levels. This line of thinking is the cornerstone of Ezra Klein’s Abundance philosophy. It’s consistent with the support voters overwhelmingly gave to creating a new Social Housing Public Development Authority earlier this year . It’s also why voters have said yes to t

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Engineers gone wild: The I-5 bridge “replacement” con

City Observatory

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.47. affordable, downtown, project, rent, transportation, urban

*Only a fifth of the multi-billion dollar cost of the IBR project pays for a new bridge over the Columbia.* *The Interstate Bridge “Replacement Project” is a misnomer: It’s really a five-mile long, ten- to twelve-lane wide highway expansion project, that rebuilds seven interchanges, and creates two new elevated freeway sections that just happens to cross a river. * *Oregon and Washington highway builders have re-branded the failed Columbia River Crossing as a “bridge replacement” project: It’s not.* *Only a fifth of the cost of $5 to $7.5 billion project is actually for replacing the existing

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Sudan’s Residents Are Rebuilding Their Capital Without Government Help

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.42. apartment, construction, house, housing, rent, urban, walk, zone

On the left, a tower building that contained medical clinics, grocery stores, residential apartments and offices was completely burned down by rocket fire in southern Khartoum. On the right, civilians work to reconnect water lines in the neighborhood of Buri Al-Mahss. (Photos by Aunnab Elma and Ahmed Kamal) On a scorching morning in Al-Kalakla, southern Khartoum, Mohammed Rizq stood among rubble with a notebook in his hand, directing dozens of volunteers half his age. The 21-year-old high school student with metalworking training pointed toward a broken water station, its generator stolen by R

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