YIMBY News for 1/23

[Eric Budd]

Trump’s war on Wall Street landlords could raise your rent

Vox - Politics

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KEYWORD SCORE: 60.42. affordable, apartment, construction, cost of housing, growth, homeowner, house, housing, housing cost, housing crisis, housing price, housing stock, income, parking, real estate, rent, renter, segregate, segregation, single family, single-family, supply, urban, zoning

[image: A house under construction] Employees work at the construction site of a new residence on November 13, 2025, in Altadena, California. Wall Street is “gobbling up” America’s homes. Firms with names like BlackRock (or Blackstone or SablePebble) are shouldering their way into every suburban open house and offering 50 percent above asking price — in a bid to consolidate control of local markets and then jack up rents with impunity. As a result, America’s young families have been locked out of homeownership, while its renters have been price-gouged into poverty. If we want to make housing a

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Three Paths to Affordability for Local Governments

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 45.09. affordable, affordable housing, complete street, cost of housing, density, development, gentrification, house, housing, housing authority, income, mixed-use, mobility, project, rent, rent control, transportation, urban, walk, zoning

The concept of “affordability” keeps gaining ground as a mantra for public officials and political candidates across the political spectrum. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani centered his campaign almost exclusively on the issue, which was also a centerpiece in the campaigns of the new Democratic governors of New Jersey and Virginia. In Georgia, Republican Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Brad Raffensperger has accused his legislative critics of “tomfoolery” for demanding that his office release sensitive voter data to the U.S. Department of Justice — arguing that lawmakers shou

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Washington to Scrutinize Eight Local Housing Plans Under New Accountability Law

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 43.67. affordable, affordable housing, construction, density, development, downtown, growth, house, housing, income, project, rent, single family, single-family, urban, zone, zoning

Eight cities and towns across Puget Sound will have their long-term growth plans and development regulations scrutinized by Washington’s Commerce Department, the first set of targeted reviews to take place under a 2025 law intended to spur housing production. The cities Commerce selected are Bainbridge Island, Beaux Arts Village, Brier, Carnation, Darrington, DuPont, Gold Bar, and Woodway. The goal of the reviews is to ensure compliance with state laws pushing cities to accommodate future housing growth across all income levels, and they represent an early step in a process that could lead to

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‘Apartment buildings next to a big-box store’: Lafayette planners criticize early plans for major development

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 39.16. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, comprehensive plan, condo, development, housing, mixed-use, parking, planning commission, project, rent, supply, walk, zone, zoning

Discussion stretched more than 4½ hours Wednesday night as the Lafayette Planning Commission reviewed a sketch plan for a proposed development at the southwest corner of Arapahoe Road and U.S. 287, with commissioners and residents raising repeated and wide-ranging concerns. The project, known as The Range at Lafayette, is proposed by developer Kensington Development Partners and could include about 450 residential units and roughly 160,000 square feet of commercial space, according to the sketch plan presented to the planning commissioners. A sketch plan is a nonbinding, conceptual proposal th

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Lafayette official calls state laws costly as lawsuit filed against Polis moves forward

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.70. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, development, growth, house, housing, housing authority, parking, project, transit-oriented, zoning

As a lawsuit filed against Gov. Jared Polis and the state of Colorado moves ahead, Lafayette City Council member Tim Barnes says the state’s housing laws have already made an impact on the city. Lafayette announced in May it would join the court fight alongside Aurora, Arvada, Glendale, Greenwood Village and Westminster. At the center of the dispute are state House Bills 23-1255, 24-1304 and 24-1313. The city has called HB23-1255 “one of the first of now many overreaches by the state into home rule authority.” “Home rule” is a type of governance based on a charter written by residents, giving

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Repairing Trust Between Government and Residents Can Unlock Climate Solutions

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.75. affordable, affordable housing, development, house, housing, project, urban, walk

A church in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andra C Taylor Jr / Unsplash) In Washington, D.C., buildings are the largest source of carbon pollution and a major roadblock to the District’s ambitious sustainability goals. Gas stoves and gas leaks can also have serious health consequences, especially for children and elderly residents. Both the District government and residents have tried to address these challenges, but historically, they have been at odds. Enter Washington Interfaith Network (WIN). WIN was founded to keep local government accountable to residents, particularly on issues related to a

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Affordability on the Agenda

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.84. affordable, construction, cost of housing, growth, house, housing, land-use, supply

This article is part of Governing’s Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up to subscribe. Mikie Sherrill, the newly elected governor of New Jersey, took a moment out of her inauguration speech on Tuesday to fulfill a campaign promise. She signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency for energy costs and ordering a freeze on utility rate increases. Sherrill’s campaign — she won both the Democratic primary and the general elections by big margins despite predicted nail biters in both cases — zeroed in on the state’s energy costs, among the fastest-growing in the country. Her day 1 order

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Bass Pro hopes to reel in 180 workers at Loveland hiring events

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.53. construction, development, house, impact fee, mixed-use, project, rent, walk

Outdoor-recreation retailer Bass Pro Shops, which plans to open a 129,000-square-foot store in Loveland this year, is looking to hire more than 180 full-time and part-time employees across all departments to staff it. Thirteen months after its groundbreaking, construction continues at the site northeast of the Crossroads Boulevard interchange on Interstate 25 in a mixed-use project called The Brands, which is being developed by the Windsor-based Water Valley Co. A Bass Pro news release issued Wednesday stated that a grand opening would be announced soon. According to the release, the retailer

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