The Planetizen Crossword Puzzle: January 2024

January 26, 2024, 5:00 AM PST

By Diana Ionescu @aworkoffiction

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1 Host of the 2028 Summer Olympic Games.
6 An affordable housing unit typically located in a building with shared amenities like kitchens and bathrooms.
10 'Open Streets' festival in Los Angeles, California that was inspired by similar events in Colombia.
11 An intense, collaborative process of problem-solving and decision-making that involves local stakeholders in planning projects and decisions.
12 Natural disaster commonly faced by communities in forested foothills and mountains in California, Oregon, and other parts of the west.
16 Clean energy source produced by applying electricity to water to separate key molecules.
17 Measure of housing units per acre.
18 The legal power of a government to acquire private land or property through eminent domain.
19 Acronym for the transit agency responsible for operating New York City's subway system.
20 The act of driving faster than the legal limit.

1 California city with one of the nation's largest ports.
2 Renewable energy that uses light from the sun to power photovoltaic cells.
3 The right to use a property owned by another person for specific purposes.
4 Founder of conservation group The Sierra Club.
5 Alternate name for a manufactured or mobile home.
7 A type of commercial building with high vacancy rates, popular for adaptive reuse projects.
8 Colloquial name for a tax levied on expensive property sales designed to fund affordable housing.
9 An environmentally contaminated site.
13 Harmful algal bloom causing discoloration of coastal waters.
14 A person who rents their home.
15 Acronym for the federal agency that oversees housing programs.

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