YIMBY News for 7/7

[Eric Budd]

Voters love rent freezes. Economists hate them. Except for this one.

Vox - Politics

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KEYWORD SCORE: 55.88. affordable, apartment, condo, construction, development, homeowner, house, housing, housing crisis, housing stock, income, land-use, mobility, project, rent, rent control, renter, supply, urban, zoning

[image: Activists hold up a cardboard sign with a cartoon of different New Yorkers saying “FREEZE OUR RENT.”] New Yorkers, including union activists, members of the New York State Tenant Bloc, gathered outside the LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, New York City, on May 7, 2026, to demand a rent freeze on rent-stabilized apartments. | Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images As America’s housing crisis deepens, policymakers are increasingly turning to an old idea for improving affordability: making large rent increases illegal. In recent years. Oregon, Washington, and California have

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Seattle Advances Design for Leary Way Bikeway, While Advocates Push for Shilshole

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.91. bike lane, bikeway, project, transportation, urban, walk, zone

[image: Seattle Advances Design for Leary Way Bikeway, While Advocates Push for Shilshole] The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) recently released updated designs for a two-way protected bike lane along Leary Way and invited feedback in a public survey open through July 15. The Leary Way bike facility has been a passion project pushed by Councilmember Dan Strauss, whose District 6 plays host to the "Missing Link" of the Burke-Gilman Trail – long the bane of people biking, rolling, and walking through Northwest Seattle. Strauss fought to get $20 million in funding earmarked for the Le

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National Governments Still See Migration as a Threat To Be Managed. These Mayors Know Better.

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.41. construction, growth, house, housing, mobility, rent, urban

Migrants queue at a public service office to obtain paperwork needed to apply for Spain's immigration amnesty, which could allow hundreds of thousands of people to obtain legal status, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat near Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti / AP) Italy is sending asylum-seekers to detention centers in Albania. Britain has stretched the wait for permanent residency from five years to 20 years. Switzerland is considering a population cap that could restrict asylum and residence permits. And yet irregular border crossings into Europe are at their lo

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Philly’s Zero Fare Transit Program Has Been Extended For Another Year, But Advocates Want More

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.98. bus stop, income, mobility, project, rent, transportation, urban

Philadelphia residents board the 23 bus at Armat St. and Germantown Ave. (Photo by Rasheed Z. Ajamu / GIH) *This story was produced as part of Next City’s joint Equitable Cities Reporting Fellowship with Resolve Philly’s Germantown Info Hub. **In April, Germantown Info Hub and Next City held a community listening session with residents to discuss what is and isn’t working when it comes to economic mobility and the benefits cliff. Among the solutions that emerged was the potential for free transportation, an issue that’s been hotly debated among lawmakers in recent weeks, to reduce the financia

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