YIMBY News for 1/27

[Eric Budd]

Could Philly’s $2 Billion Bet on Housing Help Reduce Gun Violence?

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 37.56. affordable, affordable housing, development, homeowner, house, housing, income, rent, renter, urban

Research has found that fixing up abandoned homes can reduce gun crime. Philadelphia’s H.O.M.E Plan calls for building and refurbishing 30,000 housing units in four years. (Photo by E. Vitka / Unsplash) *This story was originally published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here.* In Philadelphia, officials and residents hope that a new, sweeping housing plan will do more than alleviate the city’s long-standing problem of housing affordability. They think it might also drive down violent crime. Among them is Sharon Obentsuwaa-Tiga,

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Will Self-Driving Cars Short-Circuit Urban Public Transit?

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.50. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, downtown, housing, income, mixed-use, mobility, project, transportation, urban

Outside my door in Austin, Texas, a portentous transportation choice is playing out. One path points to a light-rail system that’s been in the works for a quarter of a century and hasn’t broken ground, but is still on the drawing board. The other points to a transportation future dominated by a fleet of autonomous vehicles navigating the city and seeking to drive the future. Are self-driving vehicles the future, as they relieve cities of having to guess where to make big infrastructure investments — such as rail lines — that will have to last for generations? Or will the idea of autonomous veh

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Climate Change Is Pushing Kentucky’s Rural and Urban Communities To Work Together

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.55. density, development, growth, homeowner, house, income, preservation, project, rent, residential solar, transportation, urban, walk

Members of the Lexington, Winchester and Clark County Fire Departments and emergency medical services, coordinate efforts to get evacuees across the flooded Troublesome Creek in Jackson, Ky., Thursday, July 28, 2022. Flash flooding and mudslides were reported across the mountainous region of eastern Kentucky, where thunderstorms have dumped several inches of rain over the past few days. (Photo by Timothy D. Easley / AP) *This story was produced as part of Next City’s joint **Equitable Cities Reporting Fellowship for Rural-Urban Issues** with **Kentucky’s **CivicLex* *.* Two myths tend to shape

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