YIMBY News for 12/6

[Eric Budd]

Federal Way Link Stations Not Seeing a Housing Boom

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 51.77. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, downtown, house, housing, impact fee, mixed-use, parking, parking garage, project, real estate, rent, single family, transit-oriented, urban, walk, zone

Homebuilding activity is anemic near the three light rail stations opening this month. On December 6th, South King County will see the opening of three new light rail stations. When visitors arrive at the stations, they’ll find relevantly barren station areas. Compared with other recently opened stations, the three station areas, covering parts of Kent, Des Moines, and Federal Way, are seeing very little transit-oriented development added or planned. The extension suffers from a freeway alignment that is not conducive to transit-oriented development (TOD), including a station that is among the

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The Weekly Wrap: Corporate Land Ownership Is Growing

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.17. affordable, affordable housing, development, growth, house, housing, housing and urban development, housing crisis, hud, mobility, project, rent, transportation, urban, zoning

[image: The Weekly Wrap] (Illustration by Getty Images) *Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and elevate the solutions that bring us closer to economic, environmental and social justice. * *If you enjoy this newsletter, share it with a friend or colleague and tell them to subscribe.* ------------------------------ Corporations Own More and More Residential Land, Study Says Corporations now own 8.9% of residential land across 500 counties in the U.S., according to a new study by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

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Building a National Movement To Protect Small Businesses From Displacement

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.39. affordable, affordable housing, development, gentrification, gentrifying, growth, housing, rent, rent control, urban, zoning

Members of the Small Business Anti-Displacement Network on a site visit in San Fransisco. (Photo courtesy SBAN) *This Q&A is part of Lessons from the Field, Next City’s series of interviews with anti-displacement practitioners across the country.* Willow Lung doesn’t come from a background in finance or business. She’s a scholar and professor focused on gentrification, social inequality and urban development. But five years ago, near the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, she founded the Small Business Anti- Displacement Network (SBAN) at the University of Maryland, a member-based national netwo

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Everything You Need to Know About Federal Way Link

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.05. bus route, construction, development, downtown, growth, house, housing, parking, project, transit-oriented, transportation, urban, walk

Sound Transit is inaugurating Federal Way Link light rail service on Saturday December 6, capping off two decades of anticipation and work to make it happen. The 7.8-mile extension adds three stations south of Angle Lake, delivering light rail to Kent, Des Moines, and Federal Way for the first time ever. Federal Way Link will extend the 1 Line to 41 miles in total length, making it the second longest light rail line in the U.S behind Los Angeles’s A Line. Expected travel times between Lynnwood and Federal Way will be 82 minutes. From the Federal Way terminus, Sea-Tac Airport will be 16-minute

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What happens when a city takes women’s unpaid work seriously?

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.03. development, downtown, house, housing, project, rent, walk

[image: A woman and her two adult sons sit close to one another on a couch covered with blankets. Two purple hand prints decorate the bright pink wall behind them.] Blanca Liliana Rodríguez and her sons, Zoran Andrey Vargas and Sergio Paolo Vargas Granada. In Bogotá’s historic downtown, a modest government building sits in the shadow of a gilded statue of Simón Bolívar, the 19th-century liberator who freed much of South America from Spanish rule. Inside, on the fourth floor, *a manzana del cuidado*, or care block, pulses with a different kind of revolution. On a bright October morning, a circl

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Boulder awards $21M in affordable-housing grants

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.83. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, development, house, housing, income, project

The city of Boulder has awarded $21.38 million in grants from the Affordable Housing Fund to two organizations. The Affordable Housing Fund is used to build, rehabilitate or acquire affordable housing, with funds sourced from commercial linkage fees, Inclusionary Housing cash-in-lieu and the county’s Affordable and Attainable Housing Tax. The fund helps advance the city’s goal for 15% of all homes in Boulder to be permanently affordable by 2035. “This fund round is the city’s largest one-year invest in affordable housing,” Kurt Firnhaber, director of Housing and Human Services, said in a writt

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Wilson, Mosqueda, Fain, and McLeod Join Sound Transit Board

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.69. house, infill, parking, parking lot, project, rent, urban

King County Executive Girmay Zahilay has announced his first slate of proposed appointments to the Sound Transit Board of Directors Thursday — a group who will be tasked with major votes charting the future of the region’s transit system in 2026. Seattle Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson, Tukwila Mayor Thomas McLeod, and King County Councilmembers Steffanie Fain and Teresa Mosqueda will become the board’s freshman class in January, filling a number of vacancies opening up in the wake of last month’s election. In addition to those four new members, Zahilay will make several reappointments, including Kin

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Op-Ed: Sound Transit’s Station Naming Policy Has Run Amok Again

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.78. development, downtown, infill, project, transportation, urban, zone

Sound Transit light rail riders must contend with a bevy of befuddling station names: Federal Way Downtown, Downtown Redmond, Lynnwood City Center. It’s a recipe for confusion and wayfinding blunders. While Sound Transit has sought to reform its station naming policy, names remain an embarrassing mess that makes navigating the system challenging, especially for visitors and new users on the system. In the wake of the University Street Station renaming debacle in 2020, Sound Transit revised its station naming policy in the hopes that it would deliver better results. The policy on paper was some

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