YIMBY News for 7/13

[Eric Budd]

The one thing MAGA nativists get right

Vox - Politics

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.98. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, growth, homeowner, house, housing, housing cost, housing crisis, land-use, parking, rent, supply

[image: Construction workers building a house.] Workers install roofing for a new home under construction in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, on Monday, June 29, 2026. | Bloomberg via Getty Images President Donald Trump blames immigrants for virtually every problem in American economic life. In the president’s telling, the undocumented have been taking American-born citizens’ jobs, lowering their wages, driving up their costs, and bankrupting their welfare programs. These claims are largely false. Most studies suggest that immigrants do not typically reduce wages or job opportunities for the Ameri

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Is Houston Really an Affordable Place to Live?

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 36.05. affordable, construction, growth, homeowner, house, housing, housing price, income, rent, renter, supply, urban

Houston is reputed to be an affordable city. But that reputation is overblown and based on some outdated assumptions, says Steve Sherman, an associate director at Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research. The Kinder Institute recently published its State of Housing report for Houston and Harris County, which it has been publishing annually since 2020. The first reports began to undercut the widely held view that the fourth-biggest city in the U.S. was, unlike other big cities on the coasts, a relatively affordable place to live. The latest research shows some indicators of afforda

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