YIMBY News for 12/30

[Eric Budd]

Looking Back on The Urbanist’s 2025

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 33.75. apartment, development, growth, house, housing, income, parking, project, transportation, urban

The year of 2025 was a pivotal year for the Seattle region and for The Urbanist. Voters elected more urbanists to office than ever before. We scored significant housing victories and repealed or eased parking mandates in a number of cities. As these stories unfolded, The Urbanist was on the scene, with leading coverage that boosted advocacy efforts and drew the connections that helped fit the story into a larger narrative about what makes cities work and thrive. At the start of the year, things were not looking particularly promising for urbanists. America had just elected a corrupt autocrat w

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As two other Colorado youth homeless shelters close, Urban Peak waitlist grows

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.66. apartment, construction, development, downtown, house, housing, rent, urban, walk

Four sets of bunk beds hardly fill up the room, where sunlight streams from a window near the top of the high ceiling and paint divides the walls into two colors horizontally to make it feel more like a bedroom and less like a homeless shelter. Pale-green and teal lockers line the wall, and a fresh towel and a new bottles of shampoo sit on a bunk bed. Signs on the bulletin board remind children living here that breakfast and chores are from 8-9 a.m. and lights out is at 10:30 p.m. This section of Urban Peak’s dorm-style youth shelter on Acoma Street in Denver is for minors, ages 12 to 18. Othe

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Ferguson Proposes ‘Unprecedented Sweep’ of Climate Dollars to Balance State Budget

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 25.64. affordable, house, income, preservation, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk

Governor Bob Ferguson’s proposed route to fill a sizable state budget gap would see over $500 million in climate funding diverted to backfill an existing tax credit, a move being called an “unprecedented sweep” of dollars intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As part of a larger budget package that doesn’t include any new revenue sources or tax increases, the budget swap would be paired with significant cuts to state-supported services and a large transfer from the state’s rainy day fund. Carbon auctions under the Climate Commitment Act (CCA), Washington’s 2021 landmark climate law, hav

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