YIMBY News for 4/17

[Eric Budd]

HUD May End Support for Mixed-Status Immigrant Households. Here’s What That Means.

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.03. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, development, house, housing, housing and urban development, housing authority, housing crisis, hud, project, rent, urban

(Photo by Rebecca Blackwell / AP) Families with mixed immigration status may soon lose support from the Trump-era Department of Housing and Urban Development. In February, the agency announced a proposed rule that would prohibit “mixed-status” families, which include U.S. citizens and people without legal immigration status, from living in public and other subsidized housing. HUD proposed a similar rule in 2019 that was ultimately blocked after receiving over 30,000 comments during the public comment period, with more than 95% of the comments in opposition to the rule. Now housing advocates ar

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Bringing Technology to Bear on Homelessness

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.13. development, housing, housing and urban development, parking, parking lot, public space, rent, urban, walk

In local government, technology matters only when it helps a public worker, volunteer or partner organization better serve people and communities. The real test is not the sophistication of the tool but whether the people using it feel safer, more effective and more able to meet needs on the ground. I recently had the opportunity to hear about an example from Los Angeles that illustrates this well. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), the region’s lead agency in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-funded Continuum of Care Program, presented at an Esri CIO confe

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Op-Ed: Reconnect and Automate Ballard to West Seattle Rail to Save ST3

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.36. construction, development, downtown, growth, project, rent, transportation, urban

[image: Op-Ed: Reconnect and Automate Ballard to West Seattle Rail to Save ST3] Sound Transit's $34.5 billion shortfall is placing light rail to Ballard and long promised stations like Graham Street *on the chopping block*, while phasing funded projects long into the future. Worse, these suffocating costs prevent addressing longstanding issues with the system that harm system reliability, efficiency, and equity goals – like separating at *grade running in the Rainier Valley*. *It doesn't have to be this way.* Sound Transit could save at least *$15 billion and 20 years* by adopting internationa

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Why Some Cities Go Green Faster Than Others

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.77. construction, development, growth, parking, project, urban

Construction along the Wharf in Washington, D.C. In 2017, the U.S. Green Building Council named Washington, D.C., the world's first LEED Platinum city. (Photo by The librarians at the San Mateo Public Library were literally in the dark when they decided to go green. Property owners in San Mateo County had just passed a general bond obligation contributing $35 million for a new library building, topped off by the State of California with a $20 million grant. “We had several public meetings asking our citizens: What do you want in your new public library?” a senior library management analyst rec

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Making Responsible Loans to Low-Income Borrowers & Communities Is Safe and Sound

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.80. development, house, housing, income, real estate, urban

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought appears before the Senate Budget Committee at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 16, 2026. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite / AP) A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes, wrote Mark Twain. Or was it Jonathan Swift? Anyway, during a Congressional Budget hearing on Wednesday, White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought faced questions from both sides of the aisle over his office’s stalling of more than $1 billion in funds intended to support investments in low- and

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