YIMBY News for 12/7

[Eric Budd]

Breaking free of zero-sum thinking will make America a wealthier country

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.58. apartment, growth, housing, rent, supply

I live in New York City, which fashions itself as many things: the financial capital of the world, the media capital of the world, and obviously, the bagel capital of the world. But I like to think of it as something else as well: the zero-sum capital of the world. Or at least, the US. The essential fact of life here is that more people want to live in New York than there are homes that we allow to exist. New Yorkers talk about the competition for apartments — or for slots in decent schools or tables at decent restaurants or virtually anything save tickets to your friend’s improv show — as if

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After 360 miles of whitewater and irrigation, the Arkansas River leaves Colorado as a trickle

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.75. affordable, downtown, growth, house, project, rent, supply, urban, walk

*What is a river?* It depends on your point of view. Sun reporters have fanned out along the Arkansas River, from the headwaters near Leadville to the border with Kansas, to learn what the river means to people in the places it runs through. ▶ Follow along for more from this series ㅤ*⚲*ㅤ *HOLLY* The sky is wide open above these plains, where the autumn corn stalks are tall and dry, cattle prices and George Jones are on the radio, and a river meanders through it. In the last Colorado town before the Kansas state line, the Arkansas River is brown and slow, in some spots like a string of big mud

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