YIMBY News for 6/17

[Eric Budd]

Boulder bet $34 million to land Sundance. High lodging prices are raising concerns.

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.13. affordable, affordable housing, condo, downtown, homeowner, housing, housing cost, real estate, rent, supply, transportation, walk

By John Herrick, Boulder Reporting Lab When Boulder was selected to host the Sundance Film Festival, one expectation was that accommodations would be less expensive than in Park City, Utah, where festival attendees competed for rooms with ski tourists. But dozens of homes in Boulder have already been listed for more than $5,000 per night during the festival, far above what several festival regulars said they paid in Park City. Property managers expect prices to fall as more listings enter the market and overpriced homes go unbooked. In the meantime, early listings are already pushing some atte

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The Student Tenant Union Movement Is Spreading to Appalachia

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.92. apartment, construction, development, growth, house, housing, income, rent, renter, urban

Members of the Morehead State University chapter of Kentucky Tenants bond at a dorm party. (Photo courtesy Madi Reffitt) *This story was produced as part of Next City’s joint **Equitable Cities Reporting Fellowship for Rural-Urban Issues** with **Kentucky’s **CivicLex* *.* For Morehead State University students Allison ‘Al’ Belter and Madi Reffitt, residents of the university dorms aren’t just students: As people who pay a property owner to inhabit a residence, they’re tenants, too. With tenant unionization picking up steam in Kentucky and around the country, students organizing through Kentuc

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Municipal Governments Are Often Slow To Act…Except When FIFA Comes to Town

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.56. affordable, affordable housing, housing, project, rent, urban, zoning

Science World, which has been transformed into a World Cup Trionda soccer ball is seen near BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Thursday, June 11, 2026, ahead of the World Cup soccer tournament. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr) *This article was originally published by The Conversation.* With the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicking off, millions of soccer fans around the world will be following the tournament taking place across 16 host cities in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Like other mega sporting events, the World Cup requires major public investment and regulatory changes. To meet FIFA’

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In Massachusetts, Parked EVs Will Start Feeding the Grid This Summer

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.44. development, parking, parking lot, project, rent, supply, transportation, urban

Three electric buses in Acton-Boxborough, Massachusetts, connect to chargers that can both power them up and send stored energy back to a building or the grid. (Photo courtesy Acton-Boxborough Regional School District) *This story was originally published by Canary Media.* After the school year ends in the Massachusetts towns of Acton and Boxborough, the district’s electric buses will mostly stay put in a parking lot. But they won’t sit idle all summer. The three vehicles will charge up their nearly 200-kilowatt-hour batteries overnight, when the power supply is at its cleanest and cheapest, t

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Opinion: AVs Can Do More Than Just Serve People Who Can Afford A Cab

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.39. density, mobility, rent, transportation, urban

The autonomous vehicle industry drove onto the scene with resources no transportation industry had ever enjoyed before: billions in capital, the most-sophisticated engineering talent in the world, genuine public excitement, and a regulatory environment that laid down smooth asphalt. For a window of time, the dream of redesigning public transportation from the ground up was genuinely within reach. But, for the most part, the industry has used it to build a better taxi. Most public scrutiny around autonomous vehicles has centered on whether the technology works and its various mishaps and misdee

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