YIMBY News for 3/9

[Eric Budd]

Constantine Backs ‘North of CID’ Light Rail Station, Bypassing Chinatown and Midtown

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.22. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, downtown, house, housing, income

King County Executive Dow Constantine has sided with those seeking to site light rail outside of the Chinatown-International District (CID). In his annual State of the County speech yesterday, Constantine backed using redevelopment of the King County Administration Building to site the new south downtown station as proposed in the ‘North of CID’ alternative — a last-minute addition to Link expansion planning. “Sound Transit is considering the shuttered Administration Building as the site for a new Link Light Rail station. If selected, we should

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An East Boston Tenant Fought Her Eviction For 8 Years. The City Bought Her Building And 35 Others.

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 25.38. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, development, housing, housing stock, income

[image: Backyard] (Photo by Brett Wharton / Unsplash) Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and the city council celebrated an ambitious housing acquisition made in October. The city finalized a deal in October to buy 36 mostly three-story, multi-family buildings in the East Boston neighborhood for $47 million, forming the East Boston Neighborhood Trust to manage the properties with deed restrictions to keep all of the units affordable in perpetuity. Residents of the buildings have experienced years of displacement after the apartments changed hands in 2014

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Housing in Brief: Local Good Cause Shut Down In New York State

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.00. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, fair housing, housing, income

[image: Backyard] (Photo by Wenhao Ryan / Unsplash) Good Cause Blocked in Poughkeepsie and Albany On March 2, New York State’s highest court shut down a Good Cause law enacted in 2021 in the city of Albany on the basis that it runs afoul of the state’s Real Property Law. The only element of the law that remains intact, per the judge’s ruling, is a provision that requires landlords to properly register their apartments before they can carry out an eviction. On March 8, a judge in Poughkeepsie shut down that city’s Good Cause law on similar groun

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Detroit Considers Changing its Property Tax System to No Longer Punish Investments

Strong Towns

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.63. apartment, construction, development, downtown, growth, homeowner, housing, income

*A vacant home in Detroit. (Photo by **Daniel Tuttle**)* Under the duress of blight, Detroit is studying a solution that might curb the raging decline of the city: a split-rate tax, where land will be taxed higher than the buildings or improvements made on it. Detroit has been referred to as a “lost city,” a place whose early embrace of auto-centric development undermined the resiliency of the city in the face of the multiple crises that befell it in the late 20th century, tearing down social, political, and financial strength that had once mad

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