YIMBY News for 4/14

[Eric Budd]

CityLab
Portland's Next Density Spurt

Keyword Score: 50.66, 0.00. affordability, affordable, apartment, building, cities, city, commute, density, design, develop, developer, downtown, gentrification, growth, home, house, housing, land, land-use, mixed-use, multi-modal, neighborhood, parcel, parking, parking lot, plan, price, project, public space, real estate, redevelop, rent, traffic, transit, urban, walk,
It’s a rainy Friday afternoon at the east edge of Portland’s Burnside Bridge, where commuter traffic is inching from downtown across the Willamette River. But five floors above at the spa inside the new Yard apartment tower, bathers in a warm soaking pool look through floor-to-ceiling glass walls at the clogged bridge and a panoramic view of the downtown
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Indianapolis Land Trust Specializes in Affordable Housing for Artists

Keyword Score: 39.78, 0.00. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, bus rapid transit, city, develop, displace, gentrification, home, homeowner, house, housing, housing crisis, land, neighborhood, price, project, properties, property, rent, transit, urban, walk,
A house being rehabbed in Indianapolis for artist residence (Photo by Kurt Nettleton) Indianapolis, says Jim Walker, tends to be just a little behind the curve when it comes to urban trends in the U.S. For artists threatened by gentrification, that could be a good thing. Walker is co-founder and CEO of Big Car Collaborative, a nonprofit arts organization
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As Seattle Sets Affordable Housing Rules, Council Member Asks for Developers to Pay More

Keyword Score: 34.63, 0.00. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, building, cities, city, construction, develop, developer, downtown, housing, land, neighborhood, plan, project, rent, urban, zone, zoning,
Seattle City Council (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) On Monday, the Seattle City Council unanimously passed a bill to upzone most of the downtown and South Lake Union neighborhoods. In exchange for the extra height and floor area, residential and commercial developers will be required to either include rent-restricted affordable housing in their buildings or p
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Mapping the New Urban Crisis

Keyword Score: 31.06, 0.00. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, cities, city, commute, density, develop, housing, income, land, nimby, rent, segregation, transit, urban, walk, zoning,
America today is beset by a New Urban Crisis. If the old urban crisis was defined by the flight of business, jobs, and the middle class to the suburbs, the New Urban Crisis is defined by the back-to-the-city movement of the affluent and the educated—accompanied by rising inequality, deepening economic segregation, and increasingly unaffordable housing. T
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CDBGs Lack Star Power, With Biggest Impact Often Hidden

Keyword Score: 30.69, 0.00. affordable, affordable housing, cities, city, design, develop, funds, home, homeless, homeowner, housing, housing and urban development, housing stock, hud, income, neighborhood, plan, rent, urban,
(AP Photo/Jon Elswick) Ninety-nine. That’s how many budget categories the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) lists in its spreadsheet tallying up how Community Development Block Grants, or CDBGs, get spent across the country. Even some of those categories aren’t as precise as they could be. “Financial assistance to for-profit business
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Seattle developers must offer rent restrictions or pay into housing fund | https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/seattle-upzoning-developers-pay-more-fees?utm_source=Sightline%20Institute&utm_medium=web-email&utm_campaign=Sightline%20News%20Selections

Keyword Score: 20.50, 0.00. affordable, affordable housing, building, city, develop, developer, downtown, housing, neighborhood, rent, sustainable, zone, zoning,
n Monday, the Seattle City Council unanimously passed a bill to upzone most of the downtown and South Lake Union neighborhoods. In exchange for the extra height and floor area, residential and commercial developers will be required to either include rent-restricted affordable housing in their buildings or pay an in lieu fee into the city housing fund. Si
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Uber Wants to Get More People in Electric Cars

Keyword Score: 19.41, 0.00. affordability, affordable, cities, city, design, housing, income, land, plan, rent, transportation,
As electric cars steadily shed their novelty status in the U.S., a new Uber initiative could give the technology a special boost in Portland, Oregon. On Wednesday, Uber launched its first U.S. initiative aimed at adding hundreds of electric vehicles to its fleet. It’s based loosely on a program the company started last year in London, where it made 150 fu
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New York City's Wi-Fi Kiosks Now Include a 'Yelp for Social Services'

Keyword Score: 19.38, 0.00. city, demand, design, home, house, housing, income, neighborhood, rent, transportation, urban, walk,
There’s no blueprint for how to roll out the world’s largest free public wi-fi network—especially one with hundreds of web-beaming, touch-screen towers spread across five boroughs. So a little more than a year after LinkNYC installed its first kiosks around New York City, some questions are still hazy. How are they supposed to be used? Who are they really
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