YIMBY News for 5/19

[Eric Budd]

Taxing the Rich Is Possible. This Toolkit Shows Local Leaders How.

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.58. affordable, affordable housing, homeowner, house, housing, housing cost, income, real estate, rent, renter, urban

Mayor Zohran Mamdani waves to attendees during a May Day rally at Washington Square Park in New York, Friday, May 1, 2026. (Photo by Yuki Iwamura / AP) Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recently proposed pieds-à-terre tax is helping to show that making rich people pay an equitable share in taxes is worth the effort. Plus, past tax increases disproved the myth that asking the wealthy to pay their fair share will lead to their exodus from cities across the U.S. Now, Local Progress and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy are working to equip local officials across the country with more progressive

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Housing First Was Never Meant To Be the Whole System

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.05. apartment, house, housing, parking, rent, urban

Cynthia Isaac-Gueye, left, director of Mental Health and Health Home Services at Haven apartments, drops in on a meeting on-site between a resident and social worker on Dec. 8, 2015, in Bronx, N.Y. (Photo by Bebeto Matthews / AP) The recent turmoil around federal behavioral health funding, including proposed cuts and new treatment-focused prerequisites tied to homelessness programs, has exposed tensions that have been building inside public mental health systems for years. The current political backlash did not create these problems. It made them harder to ignore. Over five decades working in

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35 Ways America Is Reducing Reliance on Single-Occupancy Cars

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.20. affordable, bike to work, house, mobility, occupancy, transportation, walk

When gas prices surge and squeeze household budgets, national attention naturally turns to transportation options — because people still need to get to work, school, healthcare, and other activities, and this doesn’t change just because of fuel costs. As public attention refocuses on how we get around, this moment presents a key opportunity to elevate the role of Transportation Demand Management (TDM) and the practical, cost-saving options it delivers. From carpooling to transit, vanpooling, micromobility, bicycling, and other options, reinforcing these choices now demonstrates that affordable

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