YIMBY News for 5/15

[Eric Budd]

Allow Cooperatives in Seattle’s Single Family Zones to Boost Affordable Housing

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 53.94. affordable, affordable housing, building, city, co-op, comprehensive plan, condo, construction, developer, development, displace, funds, growth, height limit, home, homeowner, house, housing, housing and urban development, housing crisis, hud, land, municipal, neighborhood, plan, project, rent, single family, single-family, urban, zone, zoning

Seattle is in the midst of a broad and deep housing shortage affecting households across the economic spectrum, which will require bold action on the municipal level — especially in the face of potential housing cuts from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), HUD rent increases, as well as continued inaction and inadequate s

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Rocking the Billion-Dollar Boat in Seattle

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 47.50. affordability, affordable, affordable housing, building, cities, city, construction, downtown, funds, gentrifying, home, homeless, homeowner, house, housing, income, land, municipal, neighborhood, plan, price, project, rent, rent control, renter, single-family, supply, transportation, urban

On an April evening, with skies clear enough to signal the end of Seattle’s winter gloom, Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant strode to a podium in front of the Amazon Spheres, a biodome for employees that has become the architectural symbol of the company’s massive downtown campus. Sawant’s background — she grew up in Mumbai and studied computer e

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"Urban Acupuncture" Offers Struggling Neighborhoods a Better Future

Strong Towns

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KEYWORD SCORE: 42.19. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, building, cities, city, commute, construction, developer, development, downtown, home, house, housing, income, land, neighborhood, plan, preservation, project, properties, property, real estate, redevelop, rent, resilient, sustainable, transit, urban, walk

Dan Reed is an urban planner and writer sharing today's guest article on strategic investment to uplift low-income neighborhoods. For more stories and resources on small scale development, visit this page. ------------------------------ "Most of Portland is shotgun house, shotgun house, shotgun house," Gill Holland says of his home base. It’s a riverfron

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‘No matter what, DIY is going to exist,’ so Denver officials and artists are looking for creative solutions

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 37.50. affordable, apartment, bike lane, building, city, construction, design, developer, development, gentrification, growth, home, house, housing, income, land, live-work, plan, properties, property, protected bike lane, real estate, rent, supply, urban, zoning

[image: Urban Cyclist owner Darrin Duran in his Brighton Boulevard storefront, May 4, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite) rino; five points; denver; colorado; denverite; kevinjbeaty; bike shop; bicycle; bikes;]Urban Cyclist owner Darrin Duran in his Brighton Boulevard storefront, May 4, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite) About two weeks ago, I got a phone ca

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A Loving Glimpse of an Aging Concrete Utopia

CityLab

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.38. building, cities, city, construction, design, development, home, housing, income, land, municipal, neighborhood, plan, project, rent, urban, walk, zone, zoning

What happens to a city when the ideals that built it start to fade? This question lies at the heart of *New Town Utopia*, an affecting new British documentary released this month that charts the recent history of the model modernist city of Basildon. Founded in 1949 roughly 30 miles east of London, Basildon was one of Britain’s first post-war new towns,

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The Trouble with Housing

Strong Towns

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KEYWORD SCORE: 28.09. affordability, affordable, building, cities, city, demand, displace, dwelling, gentrification, home, housing, neighborhood, price, rent, supply, urban

Out of all the issues Strong Towns deals with, I’ve long found housing policy to be the most confounding. Housing policy is a difficult puzzle because we want it to accomplish so many competing objectives simultaneously. For example, we want housing to gain in value to help both families and entire communities build wealth, but we also want it to remain i

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Portland Activist Testifies Before City Hall In Song

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.88. city, construction, crosswalk, demand, downtown, house, housing, housing stock, land, plan, project, traffic, transit, transportation, urban, walk

Traffic outside of Portland with Mount Hood in the background. (Credit: Robert Ashworth/Flickr) A 73-year-old folk singer testified before the Portland City Council on a freeway construction project — through song. Paul Rippey “serenaded the Portland City Council with a Bob Dylan or Pete Seeger-esque ditty,” the Oregonian reported, a musical protest to

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CityLab Daily: Inside the Massive U.S. 'Border Zone'

CityLab

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.91. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, building, cities, city, design, dwelling, home, house, housing, land, property, rent, transit, transportation, zone

*Keep up with the most pressing, interesting, and important city stories of the day. Sign up for the CityLab Daily newsletter here.* *** What We’re Following *Bordering on: *While the weight of border patrol operations is felt heaviest along the southwest border of the United States, immigration agents possess expanded search and seizure powers in a wide

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Aurora remembers its “champion,” Mayor Steve Hogan, who died Sunday

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.88. affordable, affordable housing, cities, city, condo, construction, development, growth, home, house, housing, marsh, neighborhood, plan, project, regional, rent, transit, transportation

[image: Aurora's mayor, Steve Hogan. steve hogan; anthony foxx; michael hancock; cdot; smart cities; development; growth; infrastructure; transportation; highway; i70; i-70; denverite; denver; colorado; kevinjbeaty;]Aurora’s mayor, Steve Hogan. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite) Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan — who died Sunday after entering hospice care for cancer —

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Reasons for Living With Parents Differ by Race

CityLab

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.38. cost of housing, home, house, housing, housing crisis, income, land, rent, renter, segregate

So, why are more and more young adults living at home—and for longer stretches than ever before? “The economy, duh!” is, indeed, the right answer. But it’s not the complete answer. The 2000s have been rough, and the recovery after the Great Recession has has been sluggish and uneven. But economic forces triggered by the downturns during this time have m

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Why There Are More Roots Sprouting on Rooftops in New Orleans

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.06. bike-share, building, cities, city, condo, design, developer, development, house, housing, land, neighborhood, plan, price, project, property, urban, walk, zone

The rooftop aquaponic garden at Rouse's Central Business District location. (Photo by Elisa Bach) Elisa Bach says she only buys older model cellphones off EBay. “I know how tank-prone my phone is … if I can’t replace it for around $100, it doesn’t fit my lifestyle nor career choice,” says Bach, who uses specialized aquaponics tanks to grow herbs and vege

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