YIMBY News for 8/23

[Eric Budd]

Facing Arizona’s Crackdown on Homelessness, Two Cities Offer Different Responses

BOLTSmag

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KEYWORD SCORE: 44.44. affordable, affordable housing, development, downtown, homeowner, house, housing, income, project, public space, rent, urban

*Fewer than 250 voters cast a ballot in a South Tucson recall election this month targeting the mayor and two allies in city council.* The three officials, Mayor Roxy Valenzuela and council members Brian Flagg and Cesar Aguirre, form a progressive coalition in the small city’s leadership. Outside government, they also all work with Casa Maria, a local soup kitchen that provides hundreds of warm meals daily and distributes clothing, toiletries and bedding to the city’s unhoused population. It was their deeds providing for the homeless that put a target on their back: A political rival claimed t

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Bainbridge Island Council Pushes to Downsize Affordable Housing Project

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.39. affordable, affordable housing, development, height limit, housing, housing crisis, income, parking, parking structure, planning commission, project, rent, urban, zoning

By a 6-1 vote Tuesday, the Bainbridge Island City Council recommended that a 92-unit affordable housing project planned near the state ferry terminal be scaled back by around 25%, in response to criticism of the building’s potential height and number of planned parking spaces. The project, set to go in on the site of a former police station that’s currently a vacant lot, faces an October deadline to apply for funding from the state’s housing trust fund. The city council has been planning an affordable housing project at the 625 Winslow Way site since 2022, and unanimously approved a developmen

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What’s Working: Why Colorado’s flat home-sale prices may be worse than they look

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 33.63. affordable, apartment, condo, downtown, homeowner, house, housing, income, project, real estate, rent, single family, single-family

------------------------------ *Tamara Chuang* *Business/Technology Reporter* ------------------------------ If you look at the median price of houses sold last month in the state, they were pretty flat compared with a year ago, according to data from the Colorado Association of Realtors. The seven-county Denver metro region saw median prices of single-family houses drop 1.2% to $630,000. Colorado’s was up a tiny fraction of a percentage point to $590,000. But depending where the house — or condo — is in the state, prices are falling much faster. In the city of Denver, single-family homes sold

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Harrell Issues Conditional Support Letter for County’s Capitol Hill Crisis Center

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.83. downtown, house, parking, parking lot, project, public space, transportation, urban, walk, zoning

Mayor Bruce Harrell cleared one hurdle standing in the way of King County’s plan to build a crisis care center in Seattle last Thursday as he announced a letter of conditional support outlining an acceptable launch plan from Seattle’s perspective. The facility would be located at the former Polyclinic building at 1145 Broadway on the edge of Capitol Hill and would provide behavioral health care for people experiencing a mental health, drug, or alcohol crisis. Following the county’s selection of that specific site, considerable pushback emerged from nearby business owners wary about concentrati

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