YIMBY News for 7/14

[Eric Budd]

Report of the Oregon Regressivity Council

City Observatory

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.05. development, house, housing, housing cost, income, rent, renter

*Prosperity for whomst? Why it is really the “Oregon Regressivity Council”* Synopsis - *Shifting the Tax Burden:* The business-dominated Prosperity Council predictably recommends cutting taxes for the wealthy and big businesses. Their recommendations systematically shift the state and local tax burden away from high-income households and onto ordinary Oregonians. - *Flawed Evidence:* The Council lower income households higher taxes in Oregon than in Washington. Objective data from the authoritative Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy shows Oregon’s lowest-income households actually face

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Why the Trump administration loves the stupidest renewable energy

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.03. house, income, land-use, project, rent, supply, transportation, urban, walk

[image: A red combine harvests a dry soybean field, kicking up dust as blurred soybean plants frame the foreground.] A combine harvester during a soybean harvest in Illinois, October 2025. | Bloomberg via Getty Images The modern soybean is one of the world’s miracle technologies, capable of cheaply, efficiently, and healthfully supplying protein and other nutrients to billions of people. But, unfortunately, we’ve mostly chosen to squander it on the most destructive purposes possible. Soy is America’s second most widely cultivated crop, occupying a land area equivalent to more than 4 percent of

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The Peña Boulevard redesign may include a lane expansion, better transit options and more

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.20. bus route, construction, downtown, house, multimodal, park-n-ride, project, regional transportation district, rent, transit center, transportation

Denver International Airport’s plans to improve Peña Boulevard are taking shape, with a lane expansion and other roadway improvements being “the most immediate priority.” For years, airport officials have been considering options for Peña Boulevard. Traffic on the main road to the airport has gotten worse as the airport has gotten busier, and the number of passengers who pass through DIA is only expected to grow. Since last year, the airport has been studying options through a federally mandated process for how to improve the highway. On Monday, it released a list of curated ideas that the pub

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