YIMBY News for 8/18

[Eric Budd]

Trump cuts? Not for this tax credit supported by Colorado nonprofits in underserved communities

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 36.69. construction, development, downtown, growth, homeowner, house, housing, income, project, real estate, rent, urban, zone

When the Food Bank of the Rockies began exploring a $12 million expansion on the Western Slope in early 2022, Chief Financial Officer Heather MacKendrick Costa discovered a gold mine of sorts in the form of a new funding mechanism, or at least new to her. The New Markets Tax Credit program helped the Food Bank shave a couple million dollars off the Grand Junction expansion’s price tag. That’s hard to pass up. So, the nonprofit did three more NMTCs, including one for its new 260,000-square-foot distribution center in Aurora, slated to open later by December. The $75 million facility has room to

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In Fort Collins, it can be tough to afford rent. Colorado’s corporate landlords could be to blame

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.48. affordable, apartment, house, housing, income, occupancy, project, rent, renter, supply, urban

This story was originally published on kunc.com . For Alex Siggers, a graduate student studying ecology at Colorado State University, Fort Collins is a perfect balance between urban living and easy access to nature. “You see what Fort Collins has. It’s hard to give that up,” Siggers said on a recent Sunday morning, taking in the view from the city’s Fossil Creek Park. But he might have to give it up once he graduates because finding housing he can afford has been a constant struggle since he moved there four years ago. He had to move out of his first apartment after a year because the landlord

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Habitat for Humanity is building homes for public school employees in southern Colorado Springs 

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.16. affordable, affordable housing, construction, homeowner, house, housing, housing crisis, income, rent

The Widefield School District, based in southern Colorado Springs, is teaming up with Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity to work on affordable housing solutions for its employees. The plan is to start building affordable housing that would be sold to district employees, and to make the construction part of the curriculum for some of the district’s students. Aaron Hoffman, Superintendent of Widefield School District, said the district owned undeveloped land developers had set aside. “So we decided to partner with Habitat for Humanity,” Hoffman said. Fourteen of the proposed 41 homes will be set as

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How NYC’s Oldest Working-Class Theater Is Staging a Fight Against Displacement

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.75. downtown, gentrification, gentrified, growth, house, project, rent, urban, walk

Colm Summers is the artistic director of the Working Theater in New York City. (Photo courtesy Colm Summers) *This Q&A is part of Lessons from the Field, Next City’s new series of interviews with anti-displacement practitioners across the country.* When Colm Summers stepped into the role of artistic director at New York City’s Working Theater in 2023, he inherited a legacy nearly four decades in the making. Founded in 1985 by actors from working-class backgrounds, the company was the first in the city to introduce sliding-scale ticketing — starting at zero dollars — and to bring professional t

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The Key Ingredients of College Town Success

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.19. construction, development, downtown, growth, housing, mixed-use, project

It’s a tough market for many colleges. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, at least 45 of them have either closed or announced they are closing. Another 37 have merged or announced mergers. And we are only just now reaching the date for what some have dubbed the enrollment cliff, in which college-bound cohort sizes are projected to start falling. The Trump administration’s hostility to foreign students will add to the challenge. In this competitive environment of winners and losers, individual colleges are working harder than ever to set themselves apart from the crowd. Thi

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CU’s chancellor says ‘lots of little things’ keep students coming to Boulder

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.22. cost of housing, housing, income, rent

Thousands of students are piling out of “filled-to-the-gills” cars at the University of Colorado Boulder campus this week for the annual move-in day tradition. Chancellor Justin Schwartz welcomes a first-year class that comes from all 50 states and 47 countries. Schwartz has been on the job a little over a year. CPR education reporter Jenny Brundin spoke with him about affording tuition, housing and food at college, federal cuts, DEI and the value of a degree. This interview has been edited for length and clarity Jenny Brundin: You’ve had a little over a year to get to know the campus, the com

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