YIMBY News for 11/8

[Eric Budd]

How Affordable Housing Fared at the Ballot Box in 2025

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 51.77. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, density, development, gentrification, housing, income, market-rate, planning commission, preservation, project, real estate, rent, urban, zoning

[image: The Weekly Wrap] In Denver, residents voted to increase municipal bond debt by $59.3 million to pay for new housing. (Photo by Acton Crawford / Unsplash) On Nov. 4, Americans headed to the polls, stressed about their rent and historic levels of homelessness, among other things. And it showed: Voters mostly approved ballot measures that addressed affordable housing plans. The details of those ballot measures range from straightforward to convoluted. But one thing that’s consistent is that a decades-long decline in federal funding to produce deeply affordable housing — the main source of

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Impact fees on major home additions are likely coming to Boulder

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 36.81. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, housing, impact fee, income, project, public hearing, rent, single-family, walk

The Boulder City Council is backing an ordinance that institutes an impact fee on major home renovations and projects. Any demolition of a single detached home and replacement with a larger one, and a substantial addition to a single-family detached home that exceeds 500 square feet, will be subject to an $11 per-square-foot fee. The council approved the measure 7-2 on Thursday evening, with Mark Wallach and Tara Winer voting against the measure. This was the second reading of the ordinance and one more is due at a future meeting. But, at this point, the ordinance is essentially approved. Home

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CU Boulder to proceed with new Colorado Avenue student housing building

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.56. affordable, apartment, construction, development, housing, project, rent

The University of Colorado Boulder will enter into a partnership with a private developer to construct a roughly 1,650-person capacity student housing building next to the University Heights neighborhood. The University of Colorado Board of Regents approved plans for the student housing project on Thursday at its regular meeting at the Colorado Springs campus. The new building will be constructed on Colorado Avenue in a residential area near the intersection of Regent Drive and Colorado Avenue. The site is located directly across Colorado Avenue from the Engineering Center and down the road fr

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Sound Transit Selects Private Bus Operator for Stride BRT Network

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.28. bus rapid transit, bus route, construction, project, rent, transportation, urban

A Sound Transit board committee Thursday gave the green light to a $433 million contract with MV Transportation to handle both operations and maintenance responsibilities on its planned three-line Stride bus rapid transit (BRT) network. The award, if approved by the full board later this month and executed, would represent the first time that Sound Transit has contracted with a private bus operator to provide one of its core transit services. Houston-based MV Transportation contracts with public transit agencies around the US, including King County Metro’s Access paratransit service. The compa

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A Bronx Artist Is Reframing the Legacy of the Cross-Bronx Expressway

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.05. construction, project, segregation, transportation, urban, walk

The Cross Bronx Expressway at Clay Avenue. (Photo by Abigail Montes / Urban Omnibus) In 1952, more than 1,500 families in the West Bronx received eviction notices ahead of the construction of a segment of the Cross-Bronx Expressway through their neighborhood. Residents formed the Crotona Park Tenants Committee, lobbied officials, rallied at City Hall and proposed an alternate route for infamous urban planner Robert Moses’ highway. But their pleas fell on deaf ears. Ultimately, 60,000 people were evicted from their homes through the construction of the interstate, the first built through such a

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Kentucky Organizers Fill the Gaps as SNAP Delays Leave Families in Limbo

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.67. house, housing, project, rent, urban

(Photo by Jacob McGowin / Unsplash) *This story was produced as part of Next City’s joint **Equitable Cities Reporting Fellowship for Rural-Urban Issues** with **Kentucky’s **CivicLex* *.* “I was expecting, maybe, four of us?” Willa Johnson remarked, earning a few laughs around the table. She sat among about 20 familiar friends and new faces. Most were residents of Letcher County in southeast Kentucky. All were committed to helping their neighbors through food insecurity amid the federal government shutdown. Two days earlier, Johnson made a post in a new mutual aid Facebook group, ‘Kinfolks Fe

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