YIMBY News for 12/20

[Eric Budd]

Housing Nonprofits Grapple with Fiscal Crisis and Federal Threats

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 52.69. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, downtown, growth, homeowner, house, housing, housing authority, hud, income, market-rate, rent, renter, urban, walk

Issues with vacancies, rising operating costs, and federal funding cuts are hitting affordable housing providers hard. In recent years, nonprofit housing providers in King County have confronted a variety of challenges, including climbing vacancy rates, widening wealth inequality, an uptick in the number of residents not paying rent, and steep cuts to federal programs that fund operating expenses. A recent King County report highlighted some of those challenges, as organizations move to adapt and head off what could be a perfect storm facing nonprofit housing providers. The vacancy issue is co

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The Weekly Wrap: Over a Thousand Nonprofits Remove DEI Language From Tax Docs

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 48.20. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, development, growth, housing, housing authority, housing cost, housing crisis, income, mobility, preservation, project, real estate, rent, transportation, urban, walk, zone

[image: The Weekly Wrap] UNICEF is among the not-for-profit organizations that has changed its mission statement following Trump's anti-DEI orders. (Photo by Pourya Gohari / Unsplash) *Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and elevate the solutions that bring us closer to economic, environmental and social justice. * *If you enjoy this newsletter, share it with a friend or colleague and tell them to subscribe.* ------------------------------ More Than 1,000 Nonprofits Nix DEI Language From Their Tax Forms In respons

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We need to grow the economy. We need to stop torching the planet. Here’s how we do both.

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 47.28. density, development, growth, house, housing, housing crisis, housing stock, income, parking, project, rent, single-family, supply, transportation, urban, walk

The first thing that struck me about this year’s most talked-about policy book, *Abundance* (perhaps you’ve heard of it?), is a detail almost no one talks about. The book’s cover art sketches a future where half of our planet is densely woven with the homes, clean energy, and other technologies required to fill every human need, liberating the other half to flourish as a preserve for the biosphere on which we all depend — wild animals, forests, contiguous stretches of wilderness. [image: Book cover for Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: a floating cross-section of the Earth shows a fu

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Next City’s Top Stories on Anti-Displacement Solutions in 2025

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.75. affordable, affordable housing, development, gentrification, gentrifying, growth, house, housing, housing cost, income, project, rent, urban

Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Jon McCallon / Unsplash) In 2025, displacement pressures intensified as federal immigration crackdowns, speculative investment and rising housing costs reshaped cities across the country. But communities didn’t stand still. This year, Next City’s most-read anti-displacement stories tracked how local governments, nonprofits and residents fought back — challenging ICE facilities, expanding community land trusts, building land banks and creating new tools to stop public dollars from fueling displacement. Here are the stories our readers turned to most for practical

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These Eighth-Graders Are Envisioning Philly’s Next 250 Years

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.19. development, housing, project, public space, rent, urban

UPenn architecture professor Rashida Ng and a student during the Dec. 6 culmination event. (Photo by Kait Privitera) *This story was produced as part of Next City’s joint Equitable Cities Reporting Fellowship with Resolve Philly’s Germantown Info Hub.* Philadelphia eighth-grader Eden Boyd knows her voice matters for her city’s future. “There’s a lot going on in the world right now…younger people do have a responsibility,” says Boyd, who has recently stepped into the world of urban planning through a new urban design program for youth. “Even though we kid off sometimes, we can actually use what

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