YIMBY News for 7/1

[Eric Budd]

Oakland Doesn't Need To Copy San Francisco

Darrell Owens Substack

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KEYWORD SCORE: 44.59. affordable, apartment, condo, construction, downtown, growth, homeowner, house, housing, income, infill, real estate, rent, segregation, transportation, zone

*Disclaimer: This article and every single article on my Substack only represent my own personal opinion, and not the opinion of my employer, or any public body I serve on or volunteer with.* — There was an SF Standard article discussing how Oakland seems to be on hard times while San Francisco basks in the prosperity of the AI boom. Some people think Oakland needs to catch the AI boom while others are scared of the affordability impacts of said boom coming east. Unfortunately, we’re stuck in this binary where cities can either be economic powerhouses for a shrinking number of very wealthy peo

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Vermont Is Boosting New Homes That Can Cut Energy Use in Half

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KEYWORD SCORE: 37.61. affordable, affordable housing, construction, cooperative housing, cooperative housing, development, housing, housing and urban development, hud, income, infill, rent, single-family, urban

Karen Bushey, a senior engineering consultant with Vermont Energy Investment Corp., measures the energy efficiency of a newly delivered, all-electric manufactured home at Tri-Park Cooperative Housing in Brattleboro, Vermont. (Photo by Matthew Smith / VEIC) *This story was originally published by Canary Media.* Vermont just got its biggest delivery of superefficient manufactured homes — the latest example of how a pioneering state program can lower energy bills for residents of this type of affordable housing. The all-electric, heat-pump-equipped homes slash energy use by more than half compare

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AI Can Help Residents Imagine Better Cities. It Can Also Leave Them Out.

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.98. development, housing, housing crisis, mobility, project, public space, urban, zoning

Participants at a CDC Centre-Sud consultation review WeDesign+ images imagining possible futures for the Victoria Précision site in Montreal’s Sainte-Marie neighbourhood. The images were used to prompt discussion about social housing, public space, affordability, greenery, and local identity. (Photo courtesy WeDesign+) Cities are starting to use AI to ask residents what they want. Our research suggests it can help, but its value depends on how it is used. The images can make public consultation more vivid and easier to challenge. Without good facilitation, they can also make old exclusions loo

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The Explainer: Everything You Need To Know About President Trump’s Penn Station Renovation Scheme

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.47. affordable, construction, growth, house, land-use, project, real estate, rent, transportation, urban, walk, zoning

The Penn Station mess is arriving right on time. The latest effort to renovate the transit hub is being dogged by turf wars, questions over funding and obscure secret documents, which will sound familiar to anyone who watched the last two efforts to renovate the station fall apart under their weight as real estate scams masquerading as transit improvements. It was supposed to be different this time, even as it started with a tempter tantrum by a reality-TV-star-turned-Transportation-Secretary, but now it looks once again like a real-estate scam masquerading as a transit improvement done at the

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Interview: ‘Arrested Mobility’ Star Charles T. Brown On Why The New ‘Bikelash’ Is A Misdirection Ploy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 25.69. affordable, bike lane, income, mobility, public space, rent, transportation, urban, walk

The nation is in the midst of another “bikelash” — this time, not from motorists who detest cyclists because of all the alleged “space” they “steal” from drivers or because “bike lanes cause traffic jams.” No, this time, pedestrians and cyclists are enraged at e-bikes. New Jersey lawmakers cracked down with a notorious victim-blaming bill. Another New York City suburb simply banned legal e-bikes with a law that was so ham-handed that will likely be rescinded. A Philly suburb banned e-bikes in parks. More and more cities and towns are prepping restrictions. And earlier this summer, Atlanta beca

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Opinion: The Case For Letting An Awful Urban Highway Fail

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KEYWORD SCORE: 25.56. development, housing, project, real estate, transportation, urban

Nobody knows what to do about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway’s triple cantilever. The decaying structure, which carries highway traffic beneath the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, has outlived its 50-year lifespan by two decades. Residents of Brooklyn Heights defeated a proposed fix because it would have shut down the promenade for several years and cost upwards of $4 billion. Eric Adams spent the last months of his abbreviated mayoralty begging the federal government for help. To buy time, the city has limited traffic, installed weight sensors and fastened steel mesh sheets at weak points along t

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So, How Is ‘Vision Zero’ Doing in Beantown?

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.98. bike lane, comprehensive plan, construction, project, rent, transportation, vision zero

The LivableStreets Alliance has published a new report that assesses how effective Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville have been at realizing their “vision zero” goals to eliminate serious injuries and deaths on city roadways. The report reveals that all three cities have made meaningful progress in improving street safety, although the authors acknowledge that the work has been “uneven at times.” The report also singles out the City of Somerville, where there have been no fatal crashes since 2022, and where the number of serious injury-causing crashes has shown a steady decline over the past de

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Are moderate Democrats washed?

Vox - Politics

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.30. growth, housing, project, rent, urban, yimby

[image: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, in glasses, looks serious.] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images A year ago, the hottest idea in Democratic circles was “abundance” — a growth-friendly agenda with centrist appeal that would help the party prove it was capable of shoving aside special interests and governing again. Fast-forward a year. Today, in primary after primary, the far left is on the march. Last week’s victories for socialist candidates against the establishment in New York’s Democratic primaries sent centrists into alarm and despair. W

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