YIMBY News for 7/8

[Eric Budd]

Facing an Existential Budget Crisis, an Eastside Enclave Considers Emergency Valve

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 36.80. affordable, affordable housing, density, development, growth, house, housing, income, project, rent, urban, walk, zoning

[image: Facing an Existential Budget Crisis, an Eastside Enclave Considers Emergency Valve] Clyde Hill, the Eastside city of 3,000 tucked in between Medina and Bellevue, has a budget problem. In five of the last seven years, city expenses have far outstripped revenues coming in, and reserves have been draining away. While city leaders, including Clyde Hill's last two mayors, spent years pointing to an unsustainable budget trajectory, few steps have been taken across those years to address the issue. Despite the considerable wealth Clyde Hill residents contain in their portfolios and their home

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Inside the $65 Million Center Bringing Jobs to Black New Haven

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 33.23. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, gentrification, house, housing, mixed-use, project, rent, urban

The newly constructed ConnCAT building on Dixwell Avenue in New Haven, June 18, 2026. (Photo by Julia Levine / CT Mirror) *This story was originally published by The Connecticut Mirror.* Standing in the lobby of New Haven’s newest workforce development center, Erik Clemons couldn’t help but think about the long legacy of economic self-determination forged in Dixwell, one of the city’s historic Black neighborhoods. There was the Monterey Club, a local jazz joint that hosted Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and John Coltrane before closing in the 1990s. Unique Boutique provided clothes and beauty

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San Mateo takes bad faith historic designations to new lows

YIMBY Law

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KEYWORD SCORE: 32.36. development, housing, housing crisis, nimby, preservation, project, yimby

In May, the northern California city of San Mateo passed a new historic preservation ordinance that is one of the worst examples of a nationwide trend — historic designations so broad that they prevent much-needed housing from being built. One problem is that the ordinance is far too broad. The new Historic Preservation ordinance defines a “Historic Resource” as not only one that the city has designated, but also ones “eligible” for or listed on other historic registers, like the state or federal registry. While the new ordinance city outlaws permits for building modifications for these proper

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Could Partnering With Nonprofits Be the Path To Finally Repair LA’s Broken Sidewalks?

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.28. construction, downtown, homeowner, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk

The LA Conservation Corps sidewalk repair crew at work. (Photo courtesy LACC) *This story was produced with support from the Solutions Journalism Network’s How Government Responds Innovation Fund.* Anna Apostolos knows sidewalks. Since 2000, she’s orchestrated the repair of tens of thousands of square feet of sidewalk for hundreds of Angelenos. Her official title is “capital projects specialist” for the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative, which partners with local council districts to repair sidewalks using discretionary funding. Unofficially, Apostolos has become a sidewalk whisperer in a ci

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