YIMBY News for 11/29

[Eric Budd]

Op-Ed: How Mobile Villages Could Tackle Seattle’s Homelessness Emergency

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 41.08. apartment, construction, density, house, housing, income, mobility, nimby, parking, rent, transportation, urban, zoning

In Seattle’s decades-long quest to solve its homelessness crisis, leaders have learned a harsh lesson: building out shelter capacity and supportive housing isn’t easy and outpacing the rate of people becoming unhoused is incredibly difficult. Building permanent supportive housing (PSH) is both vital to addressing the needs of homeless people and slow. Meanwhile, shelters fill up, sweeps of tent encampments relocate people like chess pieces, and more and more neighbors take up residence in tents and vehicles. The Seattle region should add another complementary approach that we can put into prac

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Longmont’s Coffman Street mobility improvements completed ahead of schedule

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.92. bike lane, bus rapid transit, bus route, bus stop, construction, downtown, mobility, multimodal, parking, parking lot, project, transportation, walk, zone

Longmont has completed its Coffman Street Mobility Improvements Project more than seven months ahead of schedule, in collaboration with its contractor, Native Sun Construction. The project transforms Coffman Street from 2nd to 9th avenues into Longmont’s first multimodal corridor with safer bike lanes, wider sidewalks, updated traffic patterns and enhanced bus service for local, regional and future Bus Rapid Transit planned for early 2028. The project was originally expected to wrap up in summer 2026. [image: Coffman Street Mobility Improvement projects include new, dedicated bike boxes; paint

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Boulder to distribute $21 million for the 2025 Affordable Housing Fund

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.25. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, housing, impact fee, project

Boulder announced on Friday that it will distribute more than $21 million in grant awards for the 2025 Affordable Housing Fund, money that will be used to build, rehabilitate or acquire affordable housing. The funds are sourced from commercial linkage fees, Inclusionary Housing cash-in-lieu and the county’s Affordable and Attainable Housing Tax to help advance the city’s goal for 15% of all Boulder homes to be permanently affordable by 2035. Projects receiving grants for this fund round include Boulder Housing Partners’ Golden West North Tower, Boulder Housing Partners’ Penrose Place, Boulder

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