YIMBY News for 5/5

[Eric Budd]

Fixing the Red State Housing Blues

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 36.75. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, growth, homeowner, housing, housing cost, housing price, rent, single-family, supply, urban, zoning

In Brief: New laws in Idaho are meant to increase housing production. The laws limit local governments’ ability to regulate housing development. The Republican-led Legislature followed the lead of Montana and other red states with recent housing legislation. The cost of a typical home in Idaho has more than doubled over the last decade, and — if you ask some state lawmakers — excessive local regulations are largely to blame. State Sen. Ben Toews has seen the problem play out first-hand. A few years ago, Toews, a Republican representing Coeur d’Alene, bought a 1.5-acre plot in a nearby town and

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Boston Has a Plan for Sea Level Rise. Now What?

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.95. development, downtown, growth, house, mixed-use, project, rent, urban

(Photo by Colin OBrien / Unsplash) If you’ve flown into Boston’s airport or explored its downtown, chances are you’ve stood on land that was once underwater in the city’s history and that is projected to be flooded in the future. The city has more made land than any other in North America: It added 5,250 acres of new land throughout its history, amounting to one-sixth of its current land area. Boston boldly refashioned its own geography by creating low-lying land, but in doing so has left some of the city’s most economically important neighborhoods and infrastructure vulnerable to flooding wit

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Governments’ Invisible Energy Costs

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.05. bus route, construction, growth, project, rent, supply, transportation, urban, walk

When diesel prices climbed sharply this spring, school district transportation directors across the country found themselves doing the same uncomfortable math. At the Logan-Rogersville schools in Missouri, buses travel between 1,500 and 1,700 miles every day — routes that don’t get shorter because fuel gets more expensive. “An individual consumer can say, ‘We’re not going to do this trip,’” Superintendent Rocky Valentine noted in March. “Well, our bus routes, that’s a little bit different.” At Missouri’s Nixa school district, which spends between $10,000 and $20,000 per month on diesel, Deputy

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