YIMBY News for 12/8

[Eric Budd]

Town Council keeps Erie’s $6.9 million land north of town center in planning limbo

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.08. affordable, affordable housing, development, housing, income, mixed-use, project, rent, single-family, urban, walk, zone, zoning

In 2023, the town of Erie bought a piece of land north of historic Briggs Street for $6.9 million, against a backdrop of a vision to turn part of it into open space and part into a mixed-income neighborhood that could include affordable housing. Two years later, the Town Council’s ongoing deliberations have left the project stuck in the conceptual phase. The 46-acre piece of land lies east of Reliance Park, just across County Road 1 ½, not far from where the road turns into Briggs Street — the heart of historic Old Town Erie. The purchase of the land included a mix of money: $3.6 million from

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As Federal Cuts Threaten CDFIs, Community Foundations Can Fill the Gap

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.42. affordable, affordable housing, development, housing, income, market-rate, project, rent, urban

(Illustration by Sandra Seitamaa / Unsplash+) In October, the entire staff of the U.S. Department of Treasury’s CDFI Fund was terminated as part of a broader Reduction in Force by the Trump administration. Even with the restoration of these jobs written into the shutdown deal, the future of federal support and a key funding pipeline for more than 1,400 community development financial institutions (CDFIs) is still deeply uncertain. CDFIs are mission-driven lenders working in low-income communities, reaching borrowers traditional financial institutions can’t – or won’t – lend to. CDFIs work in u

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Op-Ed: Looking Back at the Movement That Elected Katie Wilson

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 25.19. affordable, house, housing, income, rent, renter, urban

Now that the electoral dust has settled, Seattle’s entire political media focus is on Mayor-elect Katie Wilson. This spotlight leaves a lot of context, history, and contributors in the shadows. To determine the progressive pathway to power, we must look back years and decades to a series of progressive victories that paved the way for the most significant mayoral victory in Seattle over the past 100 years. Democracy vouchers One starting point was the Democracy Vouchers initiative which Seattle voters overwhelmingly approved in 2015. Sightline Institute and its CEO, Alan Durning, deserve much

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Colorado study aims to standardize how homes damaged by wildfires are assessed

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.36. construction, development, homeowner, house, housing, rent, urban, walk

A new state-commissioned study makes recommendations for standardized cleanup and sampling protocols for homes damaged by wildfires, guidance Colorado lacked after the wind-driven Marshall fire burned about 1,000 homes in Louisville and Superior, and rained potentially toxic ash on hundreds of others. Inconsistent claims for testing the toxins were filed and cleaning processes were often inefficient, not just in Colorado, but in California and Hawaii, too, after wildfires tore through neighborhoods where the boundaries between natural landscapes and human development blur. The lack of standard

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There’s More Than One Way to Power Data Centers

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.23. construction, growth, house, project, rent, supply

In Brief: AI companies are growing at a rapid pace — and continued growth depends on increasing energy supply. Data centers are sprouting up all over the country, sometimes facing community backlash thanks to their water usage and the strain they threaten to put on the energy grid. A report from an energy think tank makes the case for a broader perspective on how to meet data center energy needs. Hundreds of billions of dollars are pouring into artificial intelligence, driving the U.S. economy. The profits that technology leadership investors seek depend on meeting the electricity needs of dat

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