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Friday Roundup: NIMBYism, Incarceration Incentives, and Len Bias' Fading Ghost

Here are a few quick, end-of-the-week links that didn't make it into full blog posts this week:The Slow Fade of Len Bias' GhostThat's the title of a Dallas Morning News column by Mark Osler, who says it's "pathetic" it took 24 years to reduce the crack/powder disparity in federal sentencingReentry Housing Inhibited by NIMBYism Run AmokMost recently in Dallas and Houston. In Dallas short-sighted neighborhood interests succeeded in killing tax credits for four projects for reentry housing, while "without zoning restrictions in Houston there's little anyone can do to block" the project there. The Dallas News said "Tax credits, which can be sold to investors, are a main source of funding for low-income housing construction in Texas," and neighborhood opposition "counts too heavily in the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs' scoring process," according to those trying to implement these projects...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 30, 2010 (boomark / email).