YIMBY News for 7/22

[Eric Budd]

The Community Organizer’s Community Development Credit Union

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 44.86. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, growth, house, housing, housing cooperative, income, project, rent, urban, walk

[image: Economic Justice & Inclusive Finance] Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union board members and staff receiving commendations from state and local legislators at the credit union's 40th anniversary block party. (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) Although you can find $8 matcha lattes and $25 cocktails there today, Manhattan’s Lower East Side remains a neighborhood covered in both public housing and limited-equity housing cooperatives. Those buildings are home to thousands of low-income residents — largely Hispanic or Asian, often immigrants — who have been quietly investing in their o

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Washington May Take Years To Act on the New Housing Law. States Can Move Now.

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KEYWORD SCORE: 43.78. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, homeowner, house, housing, housing and urban development, housing cost, hud, income, preservation, project, rent, single-family, supply, urban, walk, zoning

A resident and staff member walk outside Hideaway Bay, as the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust marks one year since the former hotel was converted into stable housing for previously unhoused seniors, in Cutler Bay, Fla., Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell / AP) Earlier this month, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law – but not with a presidential signature. That detail matters: A bill this significant, left unsigned, suggests the executive branch may not rush to carry it out. Implementation is everything here, because the millions of Americans struggling with housin

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Bike Crash Deaths Of Transportation Planners In Chicago And Boston Must Be A Turning Point

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.17. bike lane, bike to work, bikeway, complete street, parking, project, transportation, vision zero, walk, zone

*This post is sponsored by Ride Illinois.* *Thanks to StreetsblogMASS Editor Christian MilNeil for his reporting on the Louisa Gag case, and input for this piece.* The last two months have been heartbreaking for sustainable transportation professionals and advocates in Chicago and Boston, where two hauntingly similar bike crashes took the lives of well-loved Complete Streets planners Riley O’Neil and Louisa Gag. But there’s reason to be hopeful that these tragedies will spur new political support for Vision Zero efforts in these cities, and possibly have a ripple effect across the country. *O’

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Johnston wants universal childcare in Denver (and 3 other things we heard at his big speech)

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.03. affordable, construction, density, development, downtown, gentrification, growth, housing, income, project, rent

In his annual State of the City address, Mayor Mike Johnston touched on familiar talking points while outlining his vision for a potential second term that would focus on sustainable growth and economic opportunity. This year, his address was held at the National Western Center in Elyria-Swansea, a notable departure from previous years. His last two were held downtown, an area he’s spent much of his tenure focusing on. The choice was symbolic — the neighborhood is at a crossroads. While some neighbors have fought back against rapid development, especially against the construction of a sprawlin

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Why Urban Design Needs More Urban Designers

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KEYWORD SCORE: 28.55. development, housing, housing crisis, public space, rent, transportation, urban, walk

(Photo by Noah Fetz / Unsplash) Who is responsible for the sidewalk? And why do we think that the sidewalk is less of a public responsibility than the roadway itself? I recently read an article about sidewalk ownership and maintenance in Denver, where the city assumed responsibility for maintaining its sidewalks after decades of relinquishing control to private property owners. The story highlights an issue affecting many U.S. cities, particularly newer communities developed at a time when sidewalks were treated as amenities of adjacent private property rather than components of the public rig

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Op-Ed: Bellevue Must Invest in Safe Routes to Stations in Light Rail Era

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.19. bike lane, bus stop, development, downtown, growth, project, rent, transit-oriented, transportation, urban, walk, zone

[image: Op-Ed: Bellevue Must Invest in Safe Routes to Stations in Light Rail Era] The Bellevue City Council is beginning its biennial task of creating a City budget. Historically, the City's transportation budget has focused on expanding its roads to move cars around faster, a pattern that has left highway-esque city streets cutting through downtown, most notably the eight-lane NE 8th Street. Predictably, this development pattern has also left Bellevue with an increasing number of deaths and serious injuries on its streets (41 in 2025). As early as 1972, Bellevue's chief city planner, Fred Her

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Data Centers Are Draining Virginia Dry. Could Rainwater Harvesting Be the Fix?

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.41. development, house, parking, parking lot, project, rent, supply, urban

Leslie Jarvis adjust the filters on her family's small-scale potable rainwater harvesting system, which has eliminated water bills at their Newport News-based family business, Go Green Auto Care. (Photo by Alexander Jarvis) *This story is part of In the Shadow of the Server, a Next City series on the fight over urban technology infrastructure — who builds it, who benefits, and how local leaders can push back.* Northern Virginia is the largest data center hub on earth, and it has a water problem. The region is drawing down its aquifers faster than they recharge. A family-run auto shop in Newpor

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5 new state-funded housing projects are coming to Denver 

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.64. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, house, housing, income, project, rent

The state will provide funding for five affordable housing projects totaling more than 400 units across Denver, the governor’s office announced Tuesday. The projects are located in the Golden Triangle, Montbello, Sun Valley and Sloan Lake neighborhoods and at the former Johnson & Wales University campus. Six other communities in Colorado also got funding for housing. The funding for the projects comes from Proposition 123, which voters passed in 2022. Mike Johnston, now the mayor of Denver, was a key proponent of Proposition 123, which sets aside income tax dollars to fund housing. “We are del

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Kroenkes set for ‘Wynkoop Crossing’ pedestrian bridge connecting downtown Denver to Ball Arena

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.39. construction, development, downtown, growth, housing, parking, parking lot, project, rent, walk

Kroenke Sports and Entertainment are poised to build a bridge over Speer Boulevard to connect Ball Arena to downtown Denver following a key Denver City Council vote. The bridge project would be part of the first phase of redevelopment planned for Ball Arena’s parking lots. Kroenke envisions the area around Ball Arena — the stadium for the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche currently surrounded by a sea of bare concrete — as a new extension of downtown, complete with housing, hotels and more. A rendering of the proposed Wynkoop Crossing bridge over Speer Boulevard, by Ball Arena. City Counci

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SDOT Prepares to Roll Out the Route 8 Red Carpet on Denny Way

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.16. bus stop, construction, parking, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk

[image: SDOT Prepares to Roll Out the Route 8 Red Carpet on Denny Way] With its World Cup road construction moratorium now in the rearview mirror, Seattle is gearing up for what's likely to be the most impactful street transformation of the summer. Starting August 1, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) will begin work to un-stick the eastbound Route 8 on Denny Way, a task that transit advocates have been pushing on for many years. The project became a major campaign promise of Mayor Katie Wilson in 2025, contrasting her with predecessor Bruce Harrell, whose administration framed ex

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Denver data center generators draw noise complaints in Elyria-Swansea

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.97. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, downtown, housing, income, project, rent, supply, urban, walk

Last Thursday, Jessica Owens-Neckien took her chihuahua on a morning walk past CoreSite’s nearly completed data center in Denver’s Elyria-Swansea neighborhood. Ahead of working hours, it’s usually quiet in the heavily industrial area north of downtown, Owens-Neckien said. But then she heard something she and her neighbors have worried about for months. “It sounds like the roar of an engine, and it just keeps going,” Owens-Neckien said. Owens-Neckien lives in Viña Apartments, an affordable housing complex less than a block away from CoreSite’s DE3 facility, a 170,000-square-foot data center in

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