YIMBY News for 12/9

[Eric Budd]

This Bronx Project Is Setting a New Standard for Community-Controlled Development

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 50.25. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, condo, construction, development, house, housing, housing co-op, income, mixed-use, project, real estate, rent, walk, zoning

*This story is the second in a two-part series on community-controlled commercial real estate projects scaling up through new partnerships and relationships. Read part one, on a Denver community land trust’s work, here. This coverage was produced in collaboration with Proximate, an independent media outlet covering movements for participatory problem-solving, as part of its series on the future of participatory investing. Get Proximate’s stories in your inbox.* Located in the Kingsbridge Heights section of the Bronx, the 570,000 square-foot Kingsbridge Armory was said to be the largest armory

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Older voters are gaining power. Young people are paying the price.

Vox - Politics

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KEYWORD SCORE: 36.80. affordable, growth, homeowner, house, housing, income, project, real estate, rent, renter, yes in my backyard, yimby, zoning

America is getting old. Between 1960 and 2024, the share of Americans over 65 doubled — from 9 percent to 18 percent. And the US will only grow grayer in the coming years. Within a decade, America’s seniors will outnumber its children for the first time in history, according to Census Bureau projections. By 2060, those over 65 are expected to comprise about one quarter of the population. This demographic transition will be a defining fact of the 21st century, shaping nearly every part of American life. But its political implications are liable to be especially profound — and immediate: Seniors

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Thousands Pack Trains for Launch of Federal Way Light Rail

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.16. affordable, construction, development, downtown, growth, house, housing, project, transportation, urban

Three brand new light rail stations, christened officially as Federal Way Downtown, Star Lake, and Kent Des Moines, came alive on Saturday, as scores of riders came out to celebrate Sound Transit’s latest system expansion. The opening day celebrations, which featured family-friendly activities, live music, and food at all three stations on the newly opened Federal Way Link Extension project, capped off a long road to bring light rail service deeper into South King County. With trains running all the way south to Federal Way as of 11am Saturday, the 1 Line is now the second longest light rail l

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Budget season for Colorado cities and counties marked by caution and uncertainty

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.63. affordable, apartment, development, growth, house, housing, housing cost, income, project, rent, transportation

This is a part of an occasional series looking at aspects of Colorado’s faltering economy . Colorado Springs cut more than 30 jobs. Boulder County dropped nearly 100 positions, and the city of Denver had to hack away at its budget, including laying off 171 employees. While some Front Range population centers are experiencing those kinds of budget pains , not everyone approached this year’s budget with a scalpel. While some communities are pulling back and cutting jobs, in other areas, budgets are steady or even growing slightly. Still, local leaders across the state acknowledge that 2026 may m

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Rural Colorado, an enormous carbon emitter, is also on the hook for a cleaner carbon future

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.31. affordable, affordable housing, development, housing, project, rent, supply, urban

A new report on climate emissions and solutions in rural America unveils a picture Colorado knows all too well. The country’s least populated places play a pivotal role in America’s energy system, generating far more electricity than they consume, because they contain a disproportionate share of things such as coal plants, oil wells and natural gas storage. As a result, they kick out an inordinate amount of fossil fuel emissions. But they also contain most of the nation’s carbon sinks — forests, grasslands and agricultural lands, when managed sustainably. And they’re where the majority of clea

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Playing the Long Game in Public Finance

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.95. affordable, income, mobility, project, supply, transportation

As 2025 comes to a close, this is a worthwhile time for public finance professionals and public officials to reposition themselves to master a shape-shifting fiscal landscape, new technologies, staffing challenges and unknown unknowns. Many of their contemporaries will try to cope with the accelerating pace of change by muddling through and playing it safe. Traditional bureaucratic responses may work for some, but they run the risk of leaving the foot-draggers hopelessly out of touch and eventually obsolete. Survival and success for most professionals in the field of public finance will come e

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