YIMBY News for 4/6

[Eric Budd]

The Federal Government is Weaponizing the Fair Housing Act. We Must Fight Back.

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KEYWORD SCORE: 42.55. affordable, affordable housing, development, fair housing, gentrification, house, housing, housing and urban development, housing crisis, housing discrimination, hud, income, rent, renter, segregation, urban, zoning

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner listens during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington. (Photo by Evan Vucci / AP) Nearly six decades after passage of the Fair Housing Act, the nation is experiencing a housing crisis with a shortage of more than 4.7 million homes. Contributing to the crisis are increasing rents, high mortgage interest rates, evictions, gentrification and discriminatory practices by landlords and financial institutions. Housing is an essential public good and a human right, and our abundant nation has everything it needs to realiz

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Most Colorado cities could lose access to affordable housing funding next year. Lawmakers are racing to fix it.

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.31. affordable, affordable housing, growth, house, housing, housing cost, housing crisis, housing stock, income, preservation, project, rent, supply, transportation

[image: a large historic red brick building.] [image: Story first appeared in The Unaffiliated] The vast majority of local governments in Colorado could be barred from receiving affordable housing funding through Proposition 123 for the next three years unless the state legislature steps in to prevent it. The problem stems from a provision in the 2022 ballot measure that was designed to hold local governments accountable for increasing the supply of affordable housing. To remain eligible for the $350 million a year that the measure generates, cities and counties must show that they’re increasi

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In 1978, they stopped buses — and helped launch a disability rights movement

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.59. affordable, apartment, bus stop, downtown, house, housing, regional transportation district, rent, transportation, urban, walk

By Joseph Shapiro/NPR, Stephanie Wolf/CPR News On the day after the Fourth of July in 1978, a group of young disabled people blocked two city buses at one of the busiest intersections in downtown Denver – to declare their right to live independently. The Gang of 19, as they’d be called, demanded that the city install wheelchair lifts on more than 200 newly-ordered buses, so they could ride public transit. The protest lasted some 24 hours. At night, some of the protesters got out of their wheelchairs and slept on the hard asphalt. It was an act of civil disobedience that got little attention at

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How Community Is Challenging Food Insecurity in Detroit

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.31. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, house, housing, project, purchase land, urban, walk

Northend Christian CDC. (Photos courtesy of Culture & Community Power Fund) Sponsored content from The Culture & Community Power Fund. Sponsored content policy *This sponsored series is created in partnership with The Culture & Community Power Fund (C&CPF), a national funders’ collaborative advancing the role of culture in building identity, agency, and collective power. This series explores the cultural ecosystem—the traditions, stories, rituals, and spaces that sustain frontline communities—and what it takes to support and strengthen it. Read the complete series.* An urban farm can become a

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