Question
In 2024, this city passed the “City of Yes” zoning reform, which aims to enable up to 82,000 new housing units. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this city. In January 2025, Governor Kathy Hochul (“HOH-kull”) lifted a pause on a congestion pricing plan that charges cars up to $9 to enter this city via the Lincoln Tunnel or Holland Tunnel.
ANSWER: New York City [or NYC; prompt on Manhattan by asking “what larger city is that part of?”]
[10h] The City of Yes website uses this alliterative two-word term, coined by Daniel Parolek, for moderately sized apartment buildings near transit, whose absence under existing zoning law drives up housing costs.
ANSWER: missing middle housing
[10m] This other city’s HOME initiative abets missing middle housing. Rents fell sharply in 2024 in this city where progressive Congressman Greg Casar once served on city council, which is expanding a section of Interstate 35 south of Pfluger·ville.
ANSWER: Austin, Texas
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