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Durham, NC
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The main difference? Reform made starter houses viable again. That means more housing, on less land, at a lower price point. No one had done it better than Portland.
YIMBY! Durham retweeted
“The biggest challenge we face as a city is NIMBYism. We need to grow our YIMBYism” —David Noguera, Director, Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization City of Dallas
Love empowering staff to call it as it is! @axios Housing Conference
No reform would do more for affordability and workforce housing. North Carolina had a similar bill in 2021 (SB349) killed by planner and government-lobby organizations.
YIMBY! Durham retweeted
fun fact the “International” Building Code is hardly that. it was devised by american architects arrogantly assuming everyone globally would adopt it
they took one look and said no thanks. thats why europe builds great apartments and we don’t
more dragging of the IBC!
The @triblogblog liveblog of Chapel HIll's #housing debate is pretty interesting:
There seems to be fewer young people. So many of the comments are "I want my kids to be able to afford to live here", which is not a pro-housing testimony you hear a lot.
triangleblogblog.com/2023/05…
Listen to @henrygrabar explain The Parking Theory of Everything.
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Two separate regulatory regimes have eliminated the American front porch:
1) zoning regimes punish owners with setbacks that discourage front porches (Durham partially fixed this in 2020), and
2) appraisers consistantly undervalue porches, discouraging their construction.
Put that in your Safety Pipe and smoke it...
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If you want to make sure no child ever walks to school, you can simply codify it!
Get a load of these site selection guidelines for new schools in Arkansas: dpsaft.ade.arkansas.gov/File…
It's so frickin' easy to design a decent urban building.
An equitable Durham would produce TEN of these every year. In the last century-, we've built close to ZERO. bizjournals.com/birmingham/n…
Average Median Income (AMI) in #Durham- #ChapelHill is up 42% in just SEVEN years.
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YIMBY! Durham retweeted
The very fact that there are “housing advocates” or “YIMBYs” is a symptom of a very deep problem. Something so universal and basic should not require this level of advocacy or particular identification. That, at bottom, is our housing problem.
YIMBY! Durham retweeted
Removing the words “single-family” from your zoning code does not, in fact, make zoning any less exclusionary. You actually have to *allow* other types of homes.
Marin is proposing to get rid of the word “single-family” in their R-1 zoning code due to its discriminatory effort but not actually upzone any R-1 parcels.
marincounty.org/-/media/file…
YIMBY! Durham retweeted
"We should make missing middle housing easier to build... It is also simply the right thing to do—everyone needs to do their fair share to build a sustainable, equitable, and healthy future."
@indyweek OP-Ed by @NCStateDesign professor Thomas Barrie
indyweek.com/news/opinions/o…
