YIMBY News for 6/12

[Eric Budd]

How World Cup Cities Are Dealing With Short-Term Rentals

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 45.66. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, housing, housing cost, income, occupancy, rent, renter, single-family, supply, urban, walk, zone, zoning

A tunnel leads to the pitch at Arrowhead Stadium as it is transformed to Kansas City Stadium ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026 soccer tournament Monday, June 8, 2026, in Kansas City, Mo. (Photo by Charlie Riedel / AP) *This story was published in collaboration with *Shelterforce*, the only independent, non-academic publication covering the worlds of affordable housing, community development and housing justice.* The World Cup is coming to the U.S., and with it a renewed lobbying push from the short-term rental industry to loosen regulations. The industry argues that hotels will be overwhelmed b

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New Facilities Open on Elliott Bay Trail, Honoring Indigenous Roots

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.33. development, downtown, house, project, public space, rent, transportation, urban, walk

[image: New Facilities Open on Elliott Bay Trail, Honoring Indigenous Roots] Seattle's newly overhauled Elliott Bay Trail and linear park through Belltown and Uptown is replete with nods to the land's Indigenous Coast Salish heritage. Project architects explained their design touches on a recent media tour commemorating the project opening last week, just in time for the FIFA World Cup. Indigenous architect Alfred Waugh, of the Chipewyan Nation in the Yukon, principal of the British Columbia-based firm Formline Architecture + Urbanism designed the new amenities building in Centennial Park. Rif

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The Omnibus to Nowhere

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.23. affordable, construction, cost of housing, density, development, housing, land-use, project, rent, transit-oriented, urban, yimby

This article is part of Governing’s Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up to subscribe. The Omnibus to Nowhere Here’s a bit of tactical advice: If you want to overhaul your local or state approach to housing policy, try doing it one piece at a time. That’s a consensus that’s starting to emerge from a network of advocacy groups that have fought for housing policy reforms in state legislatures and city halls over the last several years. State legislatures, and to a lesser extent city councils, often like to advance their policy goals through omnibus bills — big packages of related provisions that

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Seattle Leaders Push Back on Plan to Shortchange City in New Countywide Tax

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.77. income, rent, transportation, urban

[image: Seattle Leaders Push Back on Plan to Shortchange City in New Countywide Tax] Seattle elected officials are pushing back on an expected King County provision that could result in the city losing out on millions of dollars in funding annually. The 0.1% countywide sales tax proposal would fund transportation investments across the county – although potentially shortchanging Seattle – pending the results of a vote of the King County Council scheduled Friday. The 0.1% tax hike is being implemented via King County's transportation benefit district with a board made up of all nine King County

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Poll: Economic inequality tops Colorado women voters’ concerns ahead of midterms

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.22. affordable, affordable housing, housing, income, rent

This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at rmpbs.org . By Sandra Fish, Rocky Mountain PBS Johnitta Medina started her vegan soul food business, Momma Jah’s, during the pandemic, expanding to catering a couple of years later. She aims to buy food locally, preferably from farms owned by women or people of color. But rising prices are taking their toll. “A case of cauliflower that was once $32 was $54 today,” she said Tuesday. “The huge fluctuations that all of us are seeing in every single market that exists creates that anxiety and that fear and

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Tubman Center 'Turns Soil' on New Rainier Beach Health Center

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.17. construction, development, house, project, rent, urban, walk

[image: Tubman Center 'Turns Soil' on New Rainier Beach Health Center] Last week, the Tubman Center for Health & Freedom held a soil-turning ceremony to celebrate the start of the first phase of construction of the new Tubman Health Center. With construction projected to be completed in 18 months, the 26,000-square-foot facility located in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood will serve 12,000 primary care patients annually with a new model that aims to empower people to be an integral part of their own healthcare. Monisha Harrell, Lynnwood’s assistant city administrator and a community ambass

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