YIMBY News for 12/31

[Eric Budd]

Op-Ed: Seattle’s Path to Fund Inclusionary Zoning and Boost Homebuilding

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 56.02. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, condo, construction, development, growth, house, housing, income, market-rate, project, rent, segregate, segregation, supply, transit-oriented, urban, zone, zoning

In Washington, as our current and future leaders face down our huge housing deficit, they are going to have to struggle through many issues. One particular knotty problem is what to do with the controversial policy tool called “inclusionary zoning” (“IZ” for short) that several Puget Sound cities have deployed, including Seattle. I propose that we take the recently popularized tool called “funded inclusionary zoning” and adjust it to allow for funded in-lieu payments to affordable housing developers. Funding inclusionary zoning unlocks the benefits of inclusionary zoning while offsetting the h

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Will 2026 be the year for housing reform? Rep. Pettersen hopes ‘yes’

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.30. affordable, development, homeowner, house, housing, housing crisis, hud, rent, supply, zoning

Both the Senate and the House are moving legislative packages to deal with the housing crisis in the country, but whether one makes it to the president’s desk remains in question. Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen sits on the House Financial Services Committee, which advanced the Housing for the 21st Century Act right before the holiday recess. “I think that it helps in addressing some of the barriers to housing, streamlining some of the red tape and trying to create a framework that incentivizes your local municipalities to address housing barriers,” Pettersen said. The House version has thr

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The 19 predictions that came true in 2025 — and the 4 that didn’t

Vox - Politics

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.31. affordable, growth, house, preservation, project, rent, supply

It’s that time of year again. Every January 1, the Future Perfect team makes forecasts for the events we think will (or won’t) happen over the next 365 days. And every December 31, we go back over those predictions and tally up how we did. All of our predictions were made positively — as in, something *will *happen — and came with probabilities attached, which are meant to indicate our relative confidence in the forecast. To simplify scoring, predictions that came with a higher than 50 percent probability that proved out, or with a probability below 50 percent that did not prove out, were mark

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