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St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson hopes to use CARES Act funding to 50 new homes for homeless living in the city.

November 18 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Toronto could legalize rooming houses, also known as multi-tenant or lodging houses, in an effort to bring the city's many unpermitted examples of this low-income affordable housing type up to humane standards of health and safety.

November 18 - Yahoo News via Toronto Star

Local advocates are celebrating the start of clean up work on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn.

November 18 - Brooklyn Paper

The California Housing Accountability Act, approved by the State Legislature in 2017, is cited in a court ruling that soundly rebuffs the decision by the South Los Angeles Area Planning Commission to veto a controversial project.

November 17 - Los Angeles Times

After releasing "public scoping" details for a massive widening project in Downtown Austin, a writer slams the Texas Department of Transportation for its car-centric approach to transportation planning.

November 17 - Austin Towers

Despite its long history of ranking the best cities to live in the United States, Money Magazine should not be cited as an authority on the matter, according to this video.

November 17 - City Beautiful

The Washington State Department of Transportation is proposing a series of changes to State Route 526 that includes a new eastbound travel lane.

November 17 - Washington State Department of Transportation via Patch

Two leaders of Moms 4 Housing, which has grown to a national housing movement, have been elected to office in Oakland and Berkeley.

November 17 - Vice

The city of Clearwater added another aerial tram project to its list of planning proposals. It's the second aerial tram proposal to move forward in the city this year.

November 17 - Smart Cities Dive

A coalition of leaders in the Appalachian region recently released the "Marshall Plan for Middle America" to create jobs and transition the states of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky away from fossil fuels.

November 17 - StateImpact Pennsylvania

The New York Department of Transportation is changing the way it plans and manages open streets as political support for the concept wavers.

November 17 - StreetsBlog NYC

Land use planning decisions are mostly made by city councils and planning commissions. But there are times when the people decide, as exemplified by the city of Monterey Park's recently approved Measure JJ.

November 16 - Ballotpedia

The effort to debunk common myths about rural America in academia and the news media continues.

November 16 - Urban Institute

Toronto's University Avenue is set for a major makeover, transforming nearly ten acres of pavement to connect with other open spaces to create a contiguous 90 acres of open space, ideal for safe outdoor street life.

November 16 - The Globe and Mail

The Oakland Slow Streets program, one of the most controversial developments of the early pandemic, has evolved to become the Essential Places initiative, thanks to new planning practices and a commitment to equity in Oakland, California.

November 16 - We Are Not Divided

The weight of the pandemic is hanging around millions of renters' necks.

November 16 - Orange County Register

The 2020 edition of the Digital Cities Survey by the Center for Digital Government recognized cities of all sizes for deploying digital technology to empower pandemic responses.

November 16 - GOVTECH.COM

The Massachusetts eviction moratorium—one of the strongest in the nation—expired, just in time for winter. How did this happen?

November 16 - Shelterforce Magazine

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As the holiday season approaches and the pandemic continues, cities face an uncertain future.

November 16 - Devin Partida

If a German-based startup gets its way, Central Florida will be the first region in the United States to fill the skies with flying taxis.

November 15 - The Architect's Newspaper