YIMBY News for 7/30

[Eric Budd]

How Housing and Homelessness Crises Shaped a Big-City Mayoralty

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.69. comprehensive plan, density, development, growth, house, housing, housing cost, public space, rent, single-family, urban, walk, zoning

In Brief: Steve Adler served two terms as Mayor of Austin, from 2015 to 2023. Issues related to rapid growth, including housing costs and homelessness, defined much of his mayoralty. He has a new book about his time as mayor. Austin’s transformation — from quirky state capital to booming tech city — has been underway for decades at this point. Between 1990 and 2020, its population more than doubled. Residents and city leaders have alternately celebrated and bemoaned its growth, grateful for the new vitality and revenue but anxious that it would become impossible to “Keep Austin Weird.” For Ste

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How the New Housing Law Can Reach Neighborhoods that Need It Most

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.08. development, housing, housing and urban development, hud, income, mobility, rent, urban, zone

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support, is one of the most significant federal housing packages in decades. Buried within the legislation is a provision that deserves more attention. It allows the Department of Housing and Urban Development to give additional consideration to Opportunity Zones when awarding competitive housing and community development grants. Opportunity Zones are neighborhoods where decades of disinvestment have limited economic opportunity and where new investment is eligible for federal tax incentives. More than 20

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Solarpunk or Sink: Who Gets To Decide New Orleans’ Future?

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.06. development, house, housing, housing crisis, preservation, segregation, urban

Josiah Carpenter, 8, frolics in the floodwaters on Lakeshore Drive along Lake Pontchartrain as Tropical Storm Bertha approaches the Louisiana Coast Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in New Orleans. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP) New Orleans is sinking faster than we thought. A recent study published in the journal Nature Sustainability positions Louisiana as “America’s coastal ground zero,” a place where the future of climate adaptation is already unfolding. The study argues that coastal Louisiana has entered an era of climate-driven depopulation, where land loss, sea-level rise, and repeated storms a

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‘I see a building you cannot create today:’ The ruins of Cathedral High School have a new future

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.55. development, downtown, house, housing, parking, parking lot, preservation, project, urban

The old Cathedral High School at 1840 Grant Street has seen better days. Passersby might be distracted from the Spanish Renaissance architecture by peeling paint, unsightly fences, graffiti, broken windows and more. But the historic building’s new owner, Brian Toerber, can see past the blight. He plans to turn the bones of the building into a boutique hotel. “I see a building you cannot create today,” he said. The building features a bell tower, Catholic crosses carved into the walls and Spanish-style roof tiles. Brian Toerber, president of Inspire Investment Group, inside the historic former

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