YIMBY News for 8/11

[Eric Budd]

A new housing politics is taking shape on the left

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 61.73. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, condo, construction, cost of housing, density, development, growth, homeowner, house, housing, income, project, real estate, rent, rent control, renter, single-family, supply, yimby, zoning

[image: A smiling woman in a black dress and floral jacket gestures with both hands in front of a bright yellow-and-blue “Nithya for Mayor” campaign sign.] Nithya Raman at a campaign event, May 2026. | Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Image Los Angeles offers one of the most vivid examples of our nation’s broken housing system: a quintessentially American expanse of traffic-clogged roads and single-family homes, coupled with the highest home-price-to-household-income ratio of any major city in the country. To moderate prices, LA urgently needs to build more homes by allowing more dens

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The city tried to radically change La Alma Lincoln Park once. What will the Broncos do?

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 51.34. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, downtown, gentrification, growth, house, housing, housing authority, housing stock, income, mixed-use, project, purchase land, rent, urban, walk, zoning

Johnnie Johnson, a radio DJ and musician, often found himself in La Alma Lincoln Park despite living on the other side of town. During one of those visits, he met the woman who would become his wife. She was a classic Westsider, deeply loyal to her neighborhood. “Before she married me, she did not leave this area. I like to travel a lot. She was always afraid of getting lost,” said Johnson, who is blind. “And I said, ‘You can see, why are you afraid of getting lost?’” Johnnie Johnson, 66, who has lived in the Lincoln Park neighborhood since 1994, stands for a portrait while visiting the Denver

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Seattle Is Still Studying Housing at Magnolia's Fort Lawton

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 42.88. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, house, housing, project, public hearing, rent, transit center, transportation, urban, zoning

[image: Seattle Is Still Studying Housing at Magnolia's Fort Lawton] The year is 2018. The City of Seattle is conducting environmental review around a longstanding plan to convert a former federal army base at Fort Lawton, near Discovery Park, into a campus of affordable housing units. The year is 2025. The City of Seattle is still conducting environmental review around building housing at Fort Lawton. The year is 2026... If it seems like the idea of building housing at Fort Lawton looks doomed to be trapped in the same loop forever, evidence to the contrary is hard to come by these days. Last

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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston files to run for a second term

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.11. affordable, development, downtown, house, housing, project, rent

Mayor Mike Johnston filed on Monday to run for his second term as Denver mayor, entering an already crowded field of nine people hoping to unseat him. “We’ve helped thousands of people move from the streets to housing, lowered crime, and stood up to Donald Trump’s attacks on our values,” he wrote in a statement. “We’ve brought life to downtown, invested in our neighborhoods, and made it easier to grow a business.” He will be competing against Councilmember Shontel Lewis, third-time candidate Lisa Calderón, second-time candidates Aurelio Martinez and Robert Treta, and repeat candidate and forme

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