YIMBY News for 8/6

[Eric Budd]

Promising Approaches for Keeping Our Seniors Housed and Healthy

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 46.48. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, homeowner, house, housing, housing cost, housing crisis, income, project, rent, renter, single-family, supply, urban

The nation’s housing crisis is not only making it difficult for young people to afford rent or homeownership. It’s also affecting millions of seniors, who deserve to age with dignity and security. The mounting housing affordability, availability and accessibility challenges our seniors face need greater attention from state and local leaders. Roughly 12.4 million older households are housing cost-burdened. For a growing number, this burden can lead to homelessness, with renters most at risk. Meanwhile, many older homeowners cannot find accessible housing or afford the repairs that would allow

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Report: Building More Homes Reduces Overall Driving

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.58. growth, housing, project, public space, rent, supply, transportation, walk

As if we didn’t need another case for building more homes — turns out, it reduces driving. New planned housing is expected to cut the number of miles driven in California, according to a new study released on Thursday. Researchers from UC Berkeley and UCLA analyzed the state’s housing plans to understand how changes in supply affect vehicle miles traveled. They found that building more homes can eliminate up to 1 percent of miles driven statewide, inching towards California’s official goal of a 25-percent drop by 2030. Recommended [image: Letter From Bogotá: How A Great World Capital Puts Hous

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His long, sad journey to Runway 17L

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.27. condo, development, house, housing, real estate, rent, transportation, urban, walk

*Editor’s note: **This story contains mentions of mental illness, self-harm, and suicide. If you or someone you know is considering suicide or other acts of self-harm, please visit 988Colorado.com or call or text 988.* ------------------------------ Six months before Michael Mott killed himself by walking in front of a departing Frontier Airlines flight in Denver, his public defender was optimistic. Mott had bounced for five years between jails and state mental health facilities after he was arrested for punching a sheriff’s deputy. His sister told deputies that he was schizophrenic — when he

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L.A. County Tests a New Approach To Counting Homeless Youth: Relying on Youth Themselves

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.28. development, house, housing, housing and urban development, project, rent, urban

Tents are set up in a homeless encampment on May 12, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Damian Dovarganes / AP) *This article is being co-published with **The Imprint**, a national nonprofit news outlet covering child welfare and youth justice.* Every January, thousands of volunteers fan out across the more than 4,000 square mile-expanse of Los Angeles County on foot and by car to tally the homeless. There are two point-in-time counts, one for adults and one for youth. This year, for the first time, the volunteers did not search for unsheltered young people. Instead, county officials deployed a d

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Thursday’s Headlines Cut Away

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.25. bike lane, construction, downtown, house, housing, transportation, urban, vision zero, walk, zoning

- The stopgap spending bill recently passed by the U.S. Senate would allow $38 billion in transportation funding to expire Oct. 1, because it does not extend the Biden administration’s infrastructure act. (News From the States) - Vision Zero is a natural extension of the car-safety legislation the U.S. government passed in the 1960s. (Vox) - Uber’s defense in sexual assault lawsuits is to blame the victims. (New York Times) - Past EPA data made it clear that electric vehicles greatly reduce carbon emissions compared to gasoline, even when generating the electricity is accounted for. Now the EP

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Denver condo prices are down 14%

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.44. condo, homeowner, house, housing, real estate, rent, single-family, urban

Aspiring homeowners in Denver should look at the condo market for a good deal. The housing market in the Denver metro region has slowed dramatically since the pandemic-era frenzy when sellers had multiple offers within a day of putting their house on the market. But even so, the median price of a single-family home hasn’t budged all that much from the record highs of 2022, according to a report from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors, which tracks housing data from Denver and 10 surrounding counties. Through July, the median price for a single-family home in the region was $651,000, whic

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