YIMBY News for 11/24

[Eric Budd]

Should the government just ban high prices?

Vox - Politics

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KEYWORD SCORE: 49.95. affordable, apartment, condo, construction, growth, house, housing, income, rent, rent control, rent-control, renter, supply, urban, zone, zoning

[image: A woman in a jacket shops at a grocery store.] A customer shops at a supermarket on November 19, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. Voters want stuff to be cheaper. To most economists, the best way to make things more affordable is to make them more plentiful: When the supply of a good rises, its price tends to fall. Thus, to push down the costs of expensive commodities, the government should make them easier to produce. For example, zoning restrictions make it illegal to build apartment towers in many urban centers. This reduces the supply of housing, which leads to higher rents. Therefore

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How Mayor-elect Wilson Can Hit the Ground Running, Walking, Rolling, and Biking

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 42.56. affordable, bike lane, complete street, downtown, housing, mobility, parking, project, transportation, urban, vision zero, walk, zone

Congratulations to Mayor-elect Katie Wilson, who has a background of 15 years of community organizing and working on local legislation at the Transit Riders Union. On a personal level, Wilson biked nearly everywhere before her toddler was born, and now she walks and takes transit. Seattle Neighborhood Greenways staff and volunteers have worked closely with Wilson and the Transit Riders Union over the years, most notably as part of the Move All Seattle Sustainably Coalition to successfully reverse cuts to the walking, biking and transit projects during Mayor Jenny Durkan’s administration, and m

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The shifting gifts of the Upper Arkansas River and its evolving role for Colorado communities

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 32.38. construction, development, growth, house, housing, parking, parking lot, project, transportation, urban

[image: Three adventure activities on the Arkansas River: a group white-water rafting, a person panning for gold in the river, and another surfing on a river wave near trees and a bridge.] *What is a river?* It depends on your point of view. Sun reporters have fanned out along the Arkansas River, from the headwaters near Leadville to the border with Kansas, to learn what the river means to people in the places it runs through. ▶ Follow along for more from this series ㅤ*⚲*ㅤ *GRANITE* Andre Spino-Smith scoots his Waka kayak into the trickling Arkansas River. It’s barely flowing at 350 cubic-feet

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City Financial Officers Approach 2026 With Caution

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.72. growth, house, housing, income, project

In Brief: A summer 2025 survey found that many finance officers expect tariffs to drive up costs. Officials are less confident about meeting financial needs next year. Cities’ revenue streams are tightening, with income tax revenue expected to decline and American Rescue Plan Act money ending late next year. The bright spots: property tax revenues still show some growth and a much-feared elimination of municipal bonds’ tax-exempt status didn’t come to pass. Municipalities are already spending more cautiously this year, and they expect that trend to hold in 2026 as cities grapple with rising co

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Boulder council to review proposal for apartments at storage site

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.47. apartment, development, housing, project, rent

The Boulder City Council Thursday voted to call up a redevelopment proposal that would add hundreds of apartment units to the site of a self-storage business on Pearl Street just south of Boulder’s Valmont Park. The roughly 7-acre site at 4880 and 4898 Pearl St. “currently contains a self-storage business with two large, one-story buildings on the northern portion and approximately 32 one-story storage buildings dispersed across the remainder of the site,” according to city planning documents. Trammell Crow Co., along with development partners that include Coburn Architecture, have submitted p

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“Blood Flow”: In his own health crisis, a son seeks answers to his father’s death

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.28. house, housing, project, rent

*Purposeful delusion* Was it a coincidence that my heart disease became acute at age fifty-three, roughly the same age my father died? And how strange as I watch the years go by, as events become private memories or public history open to interpretation—and Dad remains several weeks past his forty-ninth birthday, voting in his last presidential election to reelect Lyndon Johnson, never returning to Eastern Europe where he was born, not alive to see his three children and their children grow—bringing a halt to relationships with all their enduring complexities, surprises, and delight. Memories

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