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'''<big>The mission of YIMBY of Northern Nevada is to mobilize our neighbors seeking quality housing.</big>'''<br /> (7 minute read)
YIMBY of Northern Nevada is a project of ''[http://www.RegenesisReno.com Regenesis Reno]''. Our mission is to co-create a regenerative culture in the five-county region of Greater Reno. The five counties include Washoe, Carson, Douglas, Lyon and Storey. Our company is seeking funding from individuals and from local organizations looking for a way to help current and
YIMBY is an acronym for Yes
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YIMBY members can join a waiting list for attainable quality housing we will maintain and grow to include thousands of our neighbors. To sign up now [http://www.regenesisreno.com/sign-up-for-news/ click HERE].<br />
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| || December 2014 || October 2018 || Average increase per year
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| Residents || 598,639 || 635,475 || 9,
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| Households || 237,040 || 251,399 || 3,
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| Jobs || 353,140 || 400,339 ||
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*Our goal is to keep housing costs for owners and renters at or below 30% of gross income and combined housing and transportation costs below 45%. Households with costs above these two thresholds are considered burdened. <br />
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* We also use HUD's definition of affordable housing as attainable for households below 80% of AMI ($58,800). <br />
* It is important to understand public subsidies such as the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) are only available to households with less than 60% of AMI. Among YIMBY’s goals is to overcome the confusion arising from many believing affordable housing only includes subsidized housing. <br />▼
▲* It is important to understand public subsidies such as the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) are only available to households with less than 60% of AMI
* Public housing is only available for households below 50% of AMI ($36,750 for a 4-person household and $25,750 for a 1-person household). A full-time single earner living alone needs to make less than $12.38 per hour to qualify. Even below these levels, the waiting list extremely long. <br />
* HUD’s Extremely Low-Income Limit for Washoe County is 34% of AMI ($25,100 for a 4-person household and $15,450 for a 1-person household). A single earner living alone needs to work less than 36 hours per week at the $8.25 minimum wage without benefits to qualify.<br />
* Among YIMBY’s goals is to overcome the widespread confusion arising from many believing financially attainable quality housing only refers to subsidized housing. <br />
* '''There is a shortage of financially attainable quality housing for 74% of our neighbors -- from the homeless up to households making $100,000 per year.''' <br />
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<big>'''Identifying and Recruiting Developers for 1,000 Units of Housing'''</big><br />
We are working with the Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Agency (TMRPA) and real estate experts to determine the best parcels for building the first 1,000 housing units within TMRPA’s Scenario 4: Infill. Their four scenarios illustrate where 43,000 additional housing units could be built over the next twenty years to accommodate a growth in population of 100,000.<br />
The TMRPA’s Scenario 4: Infill<br /> <small>
* Emphasizes policies that encourage growth to go to already developed areas<br />
* Maximizes the use of small lots and promotes a mix of uses<br />
* Seeks to identify infrastructure challenges in areas deemed suitable for infill redevelopment and increased density<br />
* Allows changes to existing zoning<br />
We will recruit developers for these projects locally and out-of-state by creating and presenting packages of specific opportunities. Many experts and stakeholders will be deployed to detail ways to overcome barriers to rapidly break ground. <br/>
<big>'''Density is good'''</big><br />
* We are unapologetic urbanists who believe in the virtues of cities. More people living in close proximity to each other can improve their lives and the lives of those far beyond the centers of Reno and Sparks.<br />
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* Density is opportunity: it increases access to jobs, supports diverse businesses, promotes innovation, and enables people to be more productive.<br />
* People should be free to choose to live in places that are urban, compact and walkable, low-density and car-centric. They should also be free to choose to live in suburban or rural places. Not everyone wants to live in a dense city. However, current policies restrict the supply of urban housing, leaving suburban life as the only affordable option for many. <br />
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<big>'''Housing is a home'''</big><br />
* It is not the role of the local government to maximize wealth for property owners.<br />
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* Filtering exists. Today’s new, expensive housing becomes tomorrow’s inexpensive housing, as long as scarcity isn’t induced by restricting the creation of new housing.<br />
* Local governments should fight blight by expanding economic opportunities and ensuring access to credit for residents, not by seizing blighted properties via eminent domain and razing them.
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▲'''Stop Displacement'''</big><br /><small>
* Greater Reno has the physical space for more housing without displacing existing residents.<br />
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* Higher priced housing helps protect lower income residents. In a growing economy, higher income newcomers compete for older housing stock and outbid lower-income residents. Adding supply at all levels helps protect existing non-wealthy residents from being priced out of their homes.<br />
* Effective ways to protect and preserve existing affordable housing units include community land trusts, resident owned and controlled cooperatives, the Small Sites Acquisition Program, Real Ownership Opportunities for Tenants Program (ROOTS), maintaining strong tenant protections, promoting homeownership, improving access to credit in minority and low-income communities, opposing abusive withholding of housing benefits, expanding federal funding for subsidized housing, providing lawyers for at-risk tenants and homeowners, and building more housing.
<big>'''Zoning & Planning Policy Prescriptions'''</big><br />
* We believe in long-term planning. Once a citywide or neighborhood plan is made, the process for building should be streamlined, well-defined and predictable. It should not impose significant delays on or add significant costs to a project, nor should individual property owners or neighborhood associations have the power to hijack it.<br />
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* Mixed-use zoning.<br />
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* The housing shortage is not an unintended policy failure. Greater Reno has a housing shortage because of decades of voting and organizing against housing. The solution is to organize for housing. <br />▼
▲* The housing shortage is not an unintended policy failure. Greater Reno has a housing shortage because of decades of voting and organizing against housing. The solution is to organize ''for'' housing. <br />
* We must mobilize our communities, employees of our businesses and other organizations, make our case in the media, write to legislators, support projects at hearings, support pro-housing candidates, and vote for more housing.<br />▼
▲* We must mobilize our communities, employees of our businesses and other organizations, make our case in the media, write to legislators, support projects at hearings, support pro-housing candidates, and vote for more housing.<br />
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<big>'''If you would like to receive information and updates on housing issues in Northern Nevada,
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Gordon Gossage <br />▼
▲<big>'''If you would like to receive information and updates on housing issues in Northern Nevada, send your name and email with the subject line "YIMBY housing news" to gordongossage@gmail.com and we will add you to the list.'''</big><br />
gordongossage@gmail.com <br />▼
www.RegenesisReno.com <br />
(617) 694-1624 <br /><br />▼
▲<small>For any additional questions or comments please contact:<br />
▲Gordon Gossage<br />
▲Regenesis in Reno<br />
▲gordongossage@gmail.com<br />
▲(617) 694-1624<br />
If you would like to support the crowdfunding of YIMBY of Northern Nevada, contact Gordon at the number above or send a check made out to<br />
Regenesis
Please note that our company is not a nonprofit, so your contribution is not tax deductible. Regenesis
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